I finally caved and had to ask.
Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?
Sorry I didn’t get back there for a bit, but here’s a pic of the opposite end of the aisle from today.
Neither mention butter.
Unless they consider it a “chilled bev”, lol.
I had a though recently. It would be neato to have some open source, crowdsourced world database of item locations, where you add this sort of information.
Tagged search of a store, where certain items are. What’s stores in a city sell X item. That sort of thing.
Call it “WorldDB”, bake it into OpenStreetMap.
No idea what the legality would be, but I would LOVE it.
May write a post about it at some point, as I am no programmer.
The problem is that stores regularly change the locations of items so everything would be constantly wrong.
Man I hate safeway so much
So does everyone that works at Safeway
TIL people actually look at what the aisle sign
That’s all I do. And if I can’t find what I’m looking for easily I do without it.
I hate shopping
It’s all intentional to get you to walk around the store more so you make more impulse buys. Same reason stores will reorganize things from time to time
This is honestly pretty frequent if you shop for anything beyond staple items. Like, pine nuts are not with the other nuts, for example. Cocktail garnishes are not with the other pickles. Canning pectin is not with the jello, etc.
You just can’t really trust the signs that much. At least in this case it was an entire visible section and not a single tiny box they hid among a bunch of tangentially related items.
Canning pectin is with the canning jars!
Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it’s near the sugars.
They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader
Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle
For the really good nights
Nothing like the old
wine/butterFrench Cuisine aisle
I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?
Safeway is a garbage store and its honestly your bad for shopping there.
If you want to give people an extra 50% on every grocery bill I’ve got a Venmo you can use.
*you’re
No ur
Lol, no. I was worried an autocorrect got me but you’re in the wrong here. This is your bad.
The Safeway by me is pretty reasonably organized. Probably depends on the manager.
Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin’ away!
Home improvement stores do the same illogical placement of their goods: If you want to buy a shovel, you would that shovel expect to be located in the aisle with the garden tools, right? Wrong! Of course, it is located in the timber isle, because the handle is made of wood - that’s what they probably thought.
that… hasn’t been my experience. Gardening shoves are in the gardening section and shovels for wet concrete are next to the bags of concrete.
I think my head would explode if that happened to me. I’d just start moving it back to the dairy for them while tutting very loud.
Well of COURSE the butter is in the Beer & Wine aisle. I mean where ELSE would you expect to find butter? In the DAIRY section? It is to laugh.
Butter beer. Somebody like Harry Potter
“I can’t believe it’s not Budweiser”
The beer&wine section starts there. The portion until the sign is part of another section, that OP never bothered to include in the pic. Presumably the dairy section.
Put another way: if you’re coming from the beer&wine section, the sign probably says “dairy”.
Either that or the store people just fucked up.
This is a Safeway, and those signs are at the ends of the aisle, so no, he didn’t just conveniently crop out more aisle that says dairy. The dairy section is usually open air chillers, not closed refrigeration units like this.
Some Safeway stores are ancient and too small to carry all the product people expect to be able to find these days, so they put stuff in nutty locations like this from time to time.
Ah, gotcha. I’m not familiar with this chain, so I wrongly extrapolated from what others do where I’m from. So they’re just randomly putting butter next to beer then I guess.
I like a buttery Chardonnay
shop smart! shop S-Mart!
I never understood that mentality. Like if I want to know something I google it, I ask. I don’t look in an encyclopedia for 20 Mins just to find out I’m in the wrong book.
It’s often the case, as it was here, that finding an available employee is a similarly challenging and time-consuming proposition.
You google what aisle the butter is in?
Ya but I haven’t found it yet, mind sending a link?
They’re saying to ask an employee
They should say that then. If I in this position, I’d be asking for help as well. If I’m at a big box hardware store, I’d look it up on their website because they actually do list aisle things are suppose to be in. Suppose. I have had times where the web listing was much different then the database the employees have access to.
