Question for today: which shop do you know best?

[innocent_lex]

For me it's John Lewis, which is a UK department store. I know where to go for most things in my local store, I know what I want and whether they'll have it, I know what to look out for in terms of bargains, I often wander in just to gaze at things that I want but know I can't justify buying for months (if ever), and I like that when people offer to help me they do actually help.

When I first thought about this, my thinking automatically went to the supermarket. But actually my local supermarkets are constantly moving things around and frequently stop stocking things that I want to buy, so I can't say I know it very well at all.

Comments

[rynogeny.livejournal.com]

With you on the moving stuff around in supermarkets annoyance

Over here, it's well known (i.e., a lot of people who used to work for the supermarket chains have admitted it) that they constantly move stuff around to make it harder to find, the idea being that the longer you're in the store, the more impulse buying you'll do. Apparently, they don't worry overmuch about the practice annoying people to the point they'll quit shopping there since, A) they all do it, and B) you have to have food.

Probably the store I know the best is Walmart, because it's about five minutes from here and sells both food and general merchandise (not all WM sell food.) I do make a point of going to the cheap grocery store to stock up every two weeks, and the more expensive supermarket once a week or so -- depending on what they've got on sale.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they still believe in the impulse buying theory of moving stuff. I've never met anyone who says that works - they all say it makes them skip things on their list and if it keeps happening they stop going back.