I finally caved and had to ask.
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
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.
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?
Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle
For the really good nights
Guess I’m built different, I noticed the butter immediately but took 2 minutes to figure out what the problem was before I saw the sign
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader
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.
A supermarket I go to sometimes around a year ago decided to “reorganize” everything. The first day I went there after the reorganization I almost suffered a meltdown. You know where they put the biscuits and cookies?
You guessed it! In the same aisle than stationery and printer ink. I am not kidding, the psychopath who did this, for some reason decided that printer ink was somehow related to breakfast biscuits.
They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.
When I was but a youth, I met someone and asked where they worked. They, too, said “the evil empire” (meaning Walmart) but I, being naive and having recently discovered Linux, said “Microsoft?” They laughed and responded in the affirmative.
I believed that for weeks before a Walmart-specific story came up in conversation.
Where I live supermarkets have coffee and smoothie vending machines, so you can have an in-store-coffee while you are buying your groceries. They have it installed to keep you longer in their store, hoping that you buy stuff you didn’t need in the first place.
printer ink was somehow related to breakfast
For when you want your coffee really, really black.
Unless you’re out of blue ink, then you can’t print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.
I think it’s more plausible that the original fridge had broken down, so butter was relocated to an alternative temporary.
TIL people actually look at what the aisle sign
Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!
thats how CEOs define their rules when their then-by-them-damaged company has to pay them a huge bonus for causing permanent damages to the company 🤷
I like a buttery Chardonnay
Man I hate safeway so much
So does everyone that works at Safeway
The signs are by no means a comprehensive list. Surely you’d just check the chilled section regardless. Seems like you were predominantly checking signs.
But they generally list things that are at least tangentially related to what you’re looking for.
Moreover alcoholic and non alcoholic is generally a hard line separation so children and whatnot don’t have any real reason to be around there.
I’m used to butter being in the open top refrigerated bins. I associate the cabinets like this with frozen food. I probably would have missed it too.
It’s breaks down alcohol into its categories but not list butter? Seems pretty dumb especially since loads of alcohol sections have a cold beer run like this. Market basket is first that comes to mind.
Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?
