I finally caved and had to ask.
Omg, lol, beer and wine
Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle
Nothing like the old
wine/butterFrench Cuisine aisleFor the really good nights
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing
Also the butter in the photo seem so big, huge, kilos of butter per package!
Those large vats are just margarine, so much cheaper than butter.
Thank you for clarifying.
Aw ghee whiz
And much less flavour.
Nah they have more flavor, but it’s all artificial flavoring.
The real butter is in the case with the Kerrygold. Butter is typically sold in one-pound boxes of four 8-tablespoon sticks. (About ½ kilo in all)
Kerrygold, being more expensive because imported from Ireland, is usually sold as one 8-ounce slab, the equivalent of two sticks.
What you see in the tubs is either margarine, a mix of butter+oil, or whipped butter (adding air to make it softer , go farther, and seem like more).
Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing
i once visited a cocktail bar named “buttershaker” in germany, obviously butter is an important ingredient for numerous cocktails too ;-)
Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.
Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.
Beerstar Galactica, who hasn’t heared of that epos !!!
One more episode. We have time, right?
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.
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.
Butter beer. Somebody like Harry Potter
“I can’t believe it’s not Budweiser”
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 🤷
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
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
It didn’t take long to spot the issue but the idea of using those signs is absolutely insane to me. Butter is obvious.
I wish grocery stores (especially those you can also order from online) had a page where you could pick the store (if there are multiple) and then search for the thing you need and it had a number label that would be associated with the section it is in. This weird example from op would be: beer 10, butter 10, wine 10 etc without it being confusing because it isn’t a category anymore and you only need to look in that section instead of looking like a lost kid running around in the whole store. Also filling up that big sign with just a number would be a lot easier to read from far away.
They can keep the categories if they stick to them, like meat, bread, snacks and so on so ppl who do not care about the number system can still kinda guess like today…
Some stores do just that. I know I’ve done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s.
Yes, I think other types of stores are better at it. But the stores that are only groceries, are there any that use that?
Home Depot has their interiors mapped out on Google Maps.
It’s fantastic. Since they did that I’m pretty sure I’ve never spent more then ten minutes in one unless I wanted to.
I get mileage outta this one in particular too. Still sometimes get turned around and bamboozled, overall I’ve kinda learned to treat the info as more like…the Platonic ideal of a perfectly modeled store, lol. The many changes and failures and surprises just make me even more grateful that any of that info is in there and works well. Really convenient.
I saw it a bit late, they actually have a number assigned to the sign. Do they use a number system already? Who is it for?
I think it’s just so an employee can say “that’s in aisle 7” without having to walk you there.
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.
Nobody is arguing the store isn’t also dumb, just that op is too. Grocery stores usually have 2 aisles of cold stuff, it’s not hard.
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.
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.
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.
