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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
I have been doing most of the shopping the last few months due to my wife's health. She used to do all the shopping and knows where everything is. I don't, so most of the time I'm looking at the overhead signs that list what items are in that aisle and have a few times forgot to look at the floor for the sign. All those times when I discovered that I was going the wrong way I turned around and went in the correct direction.
Where do some of you people get off getting nasty with someone over something this trivial? I guarantee that if I could look into your life you probably do some things that really annoy others. I'm a polite and courteous person when I'm treated in that manner but don't get all arrogant and superior with me if I absently mindedly go the wrong way. I can guarantee that I will invade you 6' of space and get nose to nose with you and show how haughty and arrogant I can be.
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like you I too am now doing most of the food shopping.
It's going to take some people a little more time to 'catch on' that the aisles are now one way....forever our focus has been on our lists, and on the shelves....I only noticed the floor if I had to avoid something
last week as I was coming to the end of an aisle (heading in the correct one-way direction) another couple started to enter the aisle from the wrong direction...I said "Oops am I going the wrong way down this one way street?" They smiled, said oops and quickly course corrected... I made it about me...versus making them wrong...
I never gave too much thought to what went into food shopping when my involvement was basically stopping off to pick up milk and bread on the way home from work...
here's what has made the food shopping easier for me:
#1 I always shop at the exact same store (thus I've come to know what is in which aisle)
#2 I make out a two week menu plan and develop a list from that
#3 I organize my list the way the store is laid out: produce section, deli, meats, aisles and dairy (this also makes it easier for me to be sure I didn't forget something
#4 I try to shop in the 'off hours' (avoids the crowds and okay so some things may be out of stock)