Posted on 03/14/2012 9:09:16 AM PDT by Altariel
Supermarkets are designed to promote impulse buying by leading shoppers through a maze of aisles.
But something incredible has happened since the recession. Shoppers are going only to select aisles. And this is killing store margins.
UBS cites research from Kantar Retail:
Consumers are not going down most aisles at the frequency they used to. Today, the more common way to shop is to only go down select aisles. 50% of consumers shop this way, which is a 6% increase since 2008. Consumers are highly focused on specific sales and specific coupons when shopping conventional supermarkets. This strongly suggests consumers are cherry picking grocery stores.
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I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve got several supermarkets that I pass on the way home from work. On Friday when they start their new week’s sales, I look at their online circulars, note anything I like that’s on sale, and make a list for each. Then I’ll stop off at one on Friday, another on Monday, and get the sale items I like. If it’s not on sale, I mostly don’t buy it.
Heh, heh, in the how to impress the Germans PSA, the husband says to the Aryan waiter,
“Herr Ober, Wir haben der Jaegerschnitzel bitte, auch mit Gemuese!”
That scene looks more like 1937. FWIW, I was stationed there 1981-83, real helicopter pilot. Germany is a beautiful place from the air. We were told to avoid overflying castles, it rattled their brickwork. This after the Thirty Years War and the Eighth U.S. Air Force! Oh, well.
Hopefully it will go on sale in a store in your area soon.
‘grab the used milk’-—
Excuse me, but what is used milk?
And used deodorant? YUCK.
The old timers never refrigerated eggs.. They stored them for up to 30 days on the counter. But these were fresh eggs.
You have no idea how old the eggs you buy at the store are.
You have a sell by date but is it 2-4 or 6 weeks out of the hen.
A fresh egg will have a high bright yoke...if the yolk is flatish when it goes in the skillet..it’s old.
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