This is something that really annoys me.  I just get used to where everything is, and then they move it!
They do it on purpose of course.  A manufacturer pays them or offers them a special deal if they’ll put their product at eye-level or in a more prominent place.
Or they do it so that I’ll be forced to go down aisles I don’t want to, to see new products that I’ve never seen before.  I don’t want them and I don’t need them - but they’re intent on thrusting them in front of me.
That’s why I prefer a smaller supermarket.  The space restriction means that it’s harder for things to be continually re-arranged.  I also like to be able to see the walls in a supermarket.  Some of these mega-stores are now so big that you can’t see the end of them!  I fear that I may never find my way out.
It seems that the argument about size is one about choice and convenience - but that’s a rant I’ll save for another day.

Just think about it for a minute.
You walk for miles, pushing a trolley basket larger than yourself.  You fill it with items that you don’t necessarily need.  People look grim, babies cry, children whine.
At the end of it, you hand over wads of money and you feel exhausted.
Then there’s the long walk through the car park - dodging the drivers trying to knock you down.  You empty the contents of your trolley into the car - and then find it’s a long walk back to return your empty trolley.
We are slaves to the aliens.  They are sucking the life and the money out of us.
And we want to do this 24 hours a day?

It’s amazing really - the amount of people that come and go at a supermarket.  I’m full of a cold, so I’m sitting in the car in the car park whilst the others do the shopping.
There’s such a constant stream of cars, in and out, in and out, non stop.  In the last 40 minutes, there have been six different cars in the spaces next to me.  So these people have just popped in for a couple of items.  Makes you think - was their journey really necessary?
I’m as guilty as the rest of them.  I’ll jump in my car at the drop of a hat and be off to the supermarket - even if it’s just for a pint of milk.  I’ve heard it said that most car journeys in this country are less than two miles in distance.  Sitting here and watching people, I can well believe it.
On a different tack - when I was a kid the supermarket wasn’t open late, or on a Sunday, or on a Monday.  Mondays were the days when the shelves were restocked after Saturday.  Even with these ‘limited’ opening hours, we never seemed to run short of food.  And for the odd item we would nip to the Bob Shop across the road.  So why do we need to spend so much time at the supermarket nowadays?  It’s not like it’s less busy because it’s open longer.

She was tired this week.  She looked as if her arms ached as she reached for each item and dragged it across the scanning gizmo.  No smile, or when she tried it didn’t reach her eyes.  I thought I saw the thought, “There must be more to life than this,” flit through her mind.
I asked her when she finished - “Half seven, another hour and a half.”
Not too long to go I said.
“Yes, but my daughter’s home from Uni and she’s going out at half seven.  I’ll miss her…..”

In my local supermarket, a bottle of own brand lemonade has been 27p for the past year.  When I went to stock up for Christmas - just a few days before the great day, I discovered that it was now 42p - a rise of 15p or 55%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was there a great shortage - had there been a run on lemonade all over the nation.  Well it didn’t appear so, stocks seemed to be just as plentiful as ever.
So it got me thinking that it was just a great big Christmas supermarket rip-off.  They’d seen me coming and in future I’d have to buy ahead.
Well, I’ve been waiting for it to come down in price and it hasn’t.  So what’s going on here.  I’ve looked at the price of lemons and that hasn’t changed, neither has the price of plain water.  So clearly the price is not in any way related to the cost of the materials.  It seems to me that it’s a made up price - charge what you can get away with, charge what people will pay.
I’m not sure how I feel about that.