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Depends on how you define "experience". Do I want attentive cashiers that are efficient and friendly? How about clear standardized pricing to price compare? Con
by bko 5y ago
Depends on how you define "experience". Do I want attentive cashiers that are efficient and friendly? How about clear standardized pricing to price compare? Conveniently placed workers that can direct me to the right location? Predictable product placements?
Whether you like it or not, grocery store is an experience. For instance there are considerably cheaper grocers that can fulfill many basic goods (C-Town, Dollar General, etc) but some people avoid because the "experience" is not as pleasant (lighting, color scheme, spacing, etc)
- beeboop 5y agoHaving item A showing the price in $ per pound and then the nearly identical item B next to it showing $ per ounce is the bane of my existence.
- Out_of_Characte 5y agoIf only there was an easy metric to convert to and from different base values.
- beeboop 5y agoI'm not going to stand in front of 6 selections of deli meat and use my calculator and take notes on their price conversions to determine which one to get. I'm going to accept I'll probably slightly overpay and move on with my life.
- danhor 5y agoI want experience, I don't want "experience" (usually)
- netizen-936824 5y agoTaking a dump is also experience, should we want advertisers to optimize that as well? I don't think the optimization is the issue, it's who's doing the optimization and why/what purpose
- bko 5y agoIt's not "advertisers". It's the actual product brands. I agree the freezer thing sounds awful and hopefully is just a failed experiment. But products and layout are optimized by the brand. Just take a look at the packaging. Pretty standard comparable size, dimensions that fit in the place they're meant to be stored, meaningful information up front, clear well printed packaging, a million other things. I don't think you're giving enough credit to how incredibly convenient and curated a trip to a modern grocery store in an economically developed country is. The goal is to sell you more stuff obviously but 95% of the time my interests are aligned with the brand. I don't want to waste time figuring stuff out. They just make it easy for me.
- netizen-936824 5y agoAdvertisers work for brands, they're humans who make ads to sell us shit we didn't ask for. Personally I don't care which brand they work for, I want them all to stop. Whether its a blatant ad for a product or a product itself being turned into an ad, its all obnoxious and wasteful
- grapescheesee 5y agoYeah, and its worse than that. Since the brands are managed by brokers who setup sales, the facing/amount displayed on the shelf, the location on the shelf and the store, and so on.
- Groxx 5y agoYa know, I might approve of putting ads on toilet paper. Then I can wipe my ass on their brand and flush it down the drain like it deserves. It'd be cathartic.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoI've seen urinals that play video ads, but not toilets. Seems like a great opportunity to increase your reach with the female demographic
- throwawayboise 5y agoThis is why I mostly shop at Aldi. The store is small enough that even if you don't know the layout it doesn't take long to find something. There are only a few choices (if that many) for any given item so you generally don't even think about price-comparing on a per-ounce basis or anything like that. The cashiers are blazing fast. You are in, out, and get on with your day. No they don't stock everything but they have all the staple products you need from day-to-day.
- Bancakes 5y agoIf I go in and out in autopilot, listening to my audio books, then it's not an experience. I frankly don't remember a single shopping trip. The harder it is to run in autopilot, the more inane distractions there are, the worse the activity.