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Posted on 11-30-10 09:13:36 PM Link | Quote
So after school twice a week I generally have half an hour to walk around in the city doing nothing before I can board the train homeward. So most of the time I spent that half hour walking to all the game stores seeing if anyone happen to get in any GC or GBA game that I'm looking for. (haha fat chance!)

The biggest of them, which happen to be gamestop, is a bit of a pain in the ass. Every week I go in there they have reorganized something. I can kinda see the reasoning to reorganize if you think you can put up a new and better layout, but I find it annoying that every other time or so I walk in there I have to look around for where they placed the old GC games this time. I also generally fail to see the logic behind it, other then they want to seam "fresh" by having their stuff at new places. :p

Do you have any store/shop that does this too, and what do you think about it?

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Posted on 11-30-10 10:59:30 PM Link | Quote
The Woodman's (local mega-grocery store) by my house does this all the fricken time. I can never find the soda or dairy section.
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Posted on 11-30-10 11:00:37 PM Link | Quote

Barnes and Noble likes to do this... they usually keep the shelves in roughly the same layout too, so I walk over to a shelf expecting one thing and it turns out to be something completely different.

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Posted on 11-30-10 11:04:59 PM Link | Quote
Too many stores do that. I remember going toward the old location of the games and humour sections of a Barnes & Noble several times.

It seems less common for grocery stores, but good luck finding something like drinking straws that they tend to put in random aisles.

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Posted on 11-30-10 11:06:04 PM Link | Quote
According to my mother, it happens a lot in various stores she goes to.

Personally, I'm never that bothered by it.

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Posted on 12-01-10 02:10:59 AM Link | Quote
The local grocery store has kinda moved stuff around in the last few months.

However, not much really changes around here just because there's almost nothing to change around.

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Posted on 12-01-10 03:41:18 AM Link | Quote
Future Shop seems to do it all the time, at least locally.

Now I walk in and see tables full of CELL PHONES staring me right in the face. Music section's getting smaller and smaller too.

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Posted on 12-01-10 03:47:33 AM Link | Quote
Gamestop's corporate office makes the their stores change their look every quarter. I hated having to move my store around when I worked there.

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Posted on 12-01-10 03:47:33 AM Link | Quote
Another reason: Why would they put the effort in rearranging a 200x200 square foot store if it's the same damn building? Pointless, and it's wastes the customer's time. I could see this for a suppermarket to get people to buy more items by having them walk around and browse the store, but still, it is unfair to the customers.

My old local Gamestop would do this once in a while, but the grocery stores rearranged the stores frequently, scrambling my motivation to shop there. I have not lived in my new area long enough to tell if a store was rearranged or not, but I assume they have at least once since their existence,

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Posted on 12-02-10 05:31:56 PM Link | Quote
I figure it's a thing to make people find other things that normally they wouldn't buy, and then buy it being all "hey, look what I found!" and get it, and then have to scour the rest of the store to find other stuff they wouldn't normally buy.

Sneaky business tactic, essentially.

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Posted on 12-02-10 06:54:58 PM Link | Quote
Dollar General used to rearrange shit so often I couldn't find things.

This is a problem, because I work there.

They've eased up in the last few months though.

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Originally posted by nensondubois
My old local Gamestop would do this once in a while, but the grocery stores rearranged the stores frequently, scrambling my motivation to shop there. I have not lived in my new area long enough to tell if a store was rearranged or not, but I assume they have at least once since their existence,


The Target here rearranged everything when it became a grocery store. Now it's really easy to get lost and not find anything. X_X

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Posted on 12-02-10 08:15:50 PM Link | Quote
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5010		A while back, when I went to Best Buy, a lot of stuff was moved around... it took me a while to find the DVDs.

Kmart, otoh, hasn't moved stuff around in a long time...

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Posted on 12-03-10 01:43:50 AM Link | Quote
My local Best Buy recently moved their stuff around as well. It wasn't a huge move, at least.

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Posted on 12-03-10 08:25:02 PM Link | Quote
My EB Games (GameStop for you south of the 49Meridian) does this all the time. It's in a mall.

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