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NireBryce
@NireBryce

I want to live within a PLANNED ECONOMY
For no reason other than THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE GROCERY STORE LAYOUT ALLOWED


bennyfactor
@bennyfactor

• how big is the area of this universal grocery store layout
• how do you handle different store needs, eg
---> a store with a high demand for kosher foods
---> a store in an area of high availability of fresh seafood
---> a store in a vacation area that needs to stock much more picnic supplies
• maybe you might say "planned economy would solve this" but: where do you put booze when the place doesn't allow cold booze to be sold, or booze to only be sold at certain times, or only certain types of booze, or booze has to be in a different but strangely connected shop (eg a Publix in Florida)

I mean this is a fun mental game to play. I've been going to the same grocery store since I was a little kid and between two ownership structures, three (or four?) different distribution suppliers, a handful of remodels, and them adding about 3000 square feet of extra floor space while I lived in a different country (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111) I can mostly remember where a given food was ... in 1999. Would love to have a standard layout, too. But how?????!!!!!


NireBryce
@NireBryce

store categories can expand but the layout must be the same ordering for it to be a humane experience


lunasorcery
@lunasorcery

alphabetical leads to too many disputes over things like “does Patak’s Madras Spice Paste get sorted under P or M or S?”

arrange the items by UPC barcode number


estrogen-and-spite
@estrogen-and-spite

Look, I think the exact order of food is not the most important part.

Instead, just make the store easy to navigate.

By making it one long hallway that twists and turns until it gets to the exit.


Sciman101
@Sciman101

Dewey Decimal grocery store


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

inexplicably read this post in the melody and cadence of short skirt and long jacket by cake BUT it was specifically the part where he trails off talking about a white chrysler lebaron because that's the only part of the song with scansion that even comes close to fitting this post

in reply to @bennyfactor's post:

but also re: regional stuff, just have regional layouts -- inter-regional travelers can adjust (or, since you know the layouts, give them a guide of where things move and what's new)

building differences already necessitate changes, but the thing is if you've seen like, four grocery stores you probably know what I mean. produce aisle is on a random side, sometimes there's open spaces, bread may be in the bakery section or the grain section or the flour section, etc. absolute chaos and the peak of managerial hubris.

but aisle order and general categorization outside of the infrastructure-dependent (seafood, butcher, bakery, the cheap sushi cooler) stations is pretty close to zero cost even if I think of the gamut of grocery stores I've been to.

I guess the key thing to make clear here is I mean like, within their category -- i'm not expecting bodegas to have a butcher. maybe a one-lobster tank they get from state subsidies though. but he's not for sale.

in reply to @NireBryce's post:

well i figure it's like those weird targets in the middle of the city where its sorta like a grocery store folded brochure-style, but with the ecological cost of concrete I'd rather use existing buildings and have the ordering be fixed but the spacing be flexible. i think i just invented linotype again oops

in reply to @lexyeevee's post:

aisles arranged by johnny-decimal system where you just incriment the prefix every time you find a new category so it looks like:

  1. Produce
  2. Novelty Frozen
  3. Gluten free
  4. Household Goods
  5. Butcher Station
  6. Pet Care
  7. Laundry
  8. Cereal

wait i think i just described regular grocery stores