My shopping guideline is to walk around the edges. Produce, dairy, meat and bakery are all on the perimeter of the store. My local market (an Albertsons) also has an entire aisle of chips. Another aisle has "snack" "foods" that includes nuts, jerky, candy, and bagged snacks that aren't nuts or chips.
Indeed. Most produce departments are to the right, since most folks are right handed. The exception is when the entry door is on the shopper's left as they enter, and to avoid going around the check stands, encourages shopping there first.
Milk and meat are often in the back because the access to the large coolers is often there. Produce, being lighter, gets to cart their supplies a bit further.
It's nuts that Albertson's/Safeway and Kroger bought all of the local and statewide chains in my region are trying to merge into virtually the sole source of grocery distribution available. Nuts that it is even possible from a "for the people" perspective. The Internet began as a way to decentralize communication should that centralized system be disrupted by war. It is also democratizing which monopolies are not.
This is the robustness that the natural selection process has built into life; sexuality is first and foremost a way to shuffle the genetic deck and, like dual brake cylinders in cars or redundant dual ignition in aircraft engines, provide some protection from "Murphy's Law". We know what happens with excessive inbreeding. "Weeds" can be difficult to control when they produce seeds that specialize in germinating under varied conditions. What appears to be "efficiency" under one set of condition can be fragility in another; nature is not profligate, it is robust. We are losing potentially useful and ecologically significant species and cultivars to monocultures. If we don't do more comprehensive long term thinking, we could perish in a trap of our own clueless making.
A walk down the aisle of any large grocery store documents that. I noticed yesterday that there was a whole aisle of chips in a store I visited.
My shopping guideline is to walk around the edges. Produce, dairy, meat and bakery are all on the perimeter of the store. My local market (an Albertsons) also has an entire aisle of chips. Another aisle has "snack" "foods" that includes nuts, jerky, candy, and bagged snacks that aren't nuts or chips.
Milk is generally all the way in the back. It is the product people buy most frequently.
Indeed. Most produce departments are to the right, since most folks are right handed. The exception is when the entry door is on the shopper's left as they enter, and to avoid going around the check stands, encourages shopping there first.
Milk and meat are often in the back because the access to the large coolers is often there. Produce, being lighter, gets to cart their supplies a bit further.
It's nuts that Albertson's/Safeway and Kroger bought all of the local and statewide chains in my region are trying to merge into virtually the sole source of grocery distribution available. Nuts that it is even possible from a "for the people" perspective. The Internet began as a way to decentralize communication should that centralized system be disrupted by war. It is also democratizing which monopolies are not.
This is the robustness that the natural selection process has built into life; sexuality is first and foremost a way to shuffle the genetic deck and, like dual brake cylinders in cars or redundant dual ignition in aircraft engines, provide some protection from "Murphy's Law". We know what happens with excessive inbreeding. "Weeds" can be difficult to control when they produce seeds that specialize in germinating under varied conditions. What appears to be "efficiency" under one set of condition can be fragility in another; nature is not profligate, it is robust. We are losing potentially useful and ecologically significant species and cultivars to monocultures. If we don't do more comprehensive long term thinking, we could perish in a trap of our own clueless making.
It is telling to look at the price to weight ratio of the product; and what they are made of:
corn and potatoes, both exceptionally cheap crops to produce.