I want to live within a PLANNED ECONOMY
For no reason other than THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE GROCERY STORE LAYOUT ALLOWED
• 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?????!!!!!
store categories can expand but the layout must be the same ordering for it to be a humane experience
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
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.
Dewey Decimal grocery store
