Why do supermarkets put items where you would never think to look for them?

Hello my friend sharra1 Ji, These practices are common, this happens everywhere, so that there is a hue and cry at stores, people will talk more to staff to find out about particular items. I ciome from a place , where markets have been designed to by wholesome items and complete street will deal on same subects. If we want to buy cloths, we have to to one place, and to buy stationary go to another place. This is beside genera shopping where asorted items would be available. But generally a big stores following common Principal of Mercendise Franchise, they will arrange the stores so taht it appeals to visitors, to attaract their stores. may god bless you and have a great time.

the way they do it is logical. logical bussiness. as yer running around trying to find what yer really looking for.. yer bombarded with other items, thus increasing the chances of "impulse buying". the store makes more money when you just go in for one or two items and wind up buying way way more, no?

The supermarket that we are currently shopping from seems to have good workers who stack products in a logical sense. It used to piss me off to have the products regularly shifted from one place to another. Therefore we submitted our complaints to the customer care and things have improved drastically. One thing that I dislike in supermarkets is that once you grow fond of a product you don't have a certainty to find it another time It seems they buy in wholesale and try to get the best profit margin prices for themselves. (c) ronaldinu 2009 -

It's not so much a problem of where some item may be but the lousy system in general my one supermarket has. Their shelves are really high up...practically reaching the ceiling of the market...for instance the one isle..on the right side is all their produce, but then on the top, top most shelf are all the paper products...you have to be either a very tall person to reach them (I'm not as I'm only 5' 1") or a mountain climber to get at them

exactly. i think they do that to get us to look at other things we might be tempted to buy. at least thats what i've heard.

upto now i didn;t find any problem with shopping in some shops. the products are displayed in each section in board near each line .so i can see that board and i can see the products and shop quickly.

i know what you are talking about,once i was looking for milk powder ,it was such a trouble looking for it.atlast i found it among washing powders.

Generally I can find everything I want. It is usually logically placed. If I can't find something I just ask someone that works there (if possible). If I end up not finding the item then I'm not going to buy the item or I'll just keep looking until I find it. I've never seen what you saw aout the paper with the soups. That doesn't seem very logical at all! Cheers! Pablo

That's easy...it's so that you have to walk all over the store looking for what you want and hopefully their brightly colored displays and sales spots will catch your eyes and get you to buy things you weren't planning to buy. That's also why most stores put things like milk, eggs, bread and meat in the very back of the store so that you have to walk past all the other stuff to get to them and chances are you'll pick up a few other items along the way. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG AND TRUST IN GOD**[/b]

Hi... sharra1. You must be an observant since you ask this question. Its true... and instead being confused by its products, this supermarket using this strategy to make you remember that you need the soup and also the paper goods. heheh... Most of the time, i buy goods from the same supermarket and mall... i have regular places to buy stuff... But sometimes, i really have no choice that i really in emergency to buy something. I usually ask the worker there where can i find the particular product or brand... and i always find it, even the price is little diffrent. yes, if we say its illogical, but supermarket says its business... I saw they put kids toys near to the meat and fishes section. Its crazy... and im still curious about that. Is there relationship between meat and fishes and the toys??? They may be have reason like this: - who will buy the meat and fishes? mother or father, or someone old, or married person... or anyone who has family, or whatever... but they need to cook their own food, so they will go to that section most of the time. - why toys there? with whom the person buy meat comes? with their kids. Maybe little kids or big kids, or no kid at all... so their probability who will buy is using causal effect. That's my understanding... probability of BUSINESS...

Yes I must agree with you, they don't always put stuff with stuff you'd put it with, the sugar in my mind should be with tea and coffe but no its in the home baking stuff, fair enough if its baking sugar but when its sugar for drinks surely in my mind it should be with the drinks!!! Shopping drives me crazy anyway so these little things just irritate me even more ha ha

They do this so you spend more time looking around the store. The more you look around, the more items you see that perhaps you didn't think of buying, and now that you see the, you do buy them. No store wants to organize itself so that you go in and out in the fastest amount of time, with the least exposure to all their mechandise.

Hey sharra! That is strange! Putting towels with soups? Even my grocery store doesn't do that! They purposely change the stores around so that customers don't get used to where things are. They want you to "look" around! That's why they change the stores around so that you take your time to see where things are and then maybe you will buy other things while you are looking for what you want! It is done by all kinds of stores! It is a marketing strategy! It's very annoying, isn't it?

oh how funny, this happened to my husband last month as he asked an employee of a local grocery store here where something was and even the employee couldnt find what he was looking for... so for now, we have stopped going to that store unless it is totally necessary to run into that store which we havent had to. Its amazing when you decide that a store is more of a hinder than help and you dont go there, you find that you really dont need that store.

We can thank overzealous merchandisers with flimsy pyschology courses under their belts for all of this sharra! To them it is all a strategic science. Paper towels go with soups because people who eat soup will tend to spill it and what better to wipe it up with for example! Sugary treats will go at the eye levels of children and so forth. If people had any idea of all the preparation and methodology that went into this, they would be amazed! All we can do is try our best to deal with the sensory overload and confusion and then make the most of our weekly grocery hunt!

I do not have trouble when i go shopping.Everything is kept in the proper place.If i can't find the product i ask the storekeeper about it.I really enjoy shopping with my shopping basket.If i have doubts i will ask someone about it.