Big box....

     Big box stores always seem to have strange ideas for
some reason on merchandising and customer treatment.
I mean I can cope with having to buy a skid of pickles
or a 55 gal drum of ketchup but I'm really having a
problem with their 'herding' methods.   After a recent
remodel our local store has the entrance on one end of
the building and the exit on the opposite end.  Now that
may work out great for in store traffic flow however it
does create a slight problem when parking ones car on
arrival.  In bad weather do you park by the entrance for
a short trip in ??  Remember when you come out your
going to have a cart full of stuff (inevitable) and your
going to have to make that long trek back to your car.
I guess you can park at the exit and make that initial
trek empty handed which makes more sense.  But if
it happens to be raining or snowing you then get to
spend your shopping time dripping wet of frozen.
Tough choice.. I personally have been doing the exit
side and sneaking in when someone comes out..lol
     The other thing that annoys me I the fact that just
as I find a product I really like it is either discontinued
or changed to a new and improved version.  This in it's
self is a completely new problem.  If something is 'new'
it can't possibly be improved   And for something to be improved
it had to have another version before so it can't possibly
be 'new'.  I lose sleep over things like this !  Now I do
realize that products change and become no longer available
and must be replaced  by similar products.  But why must it
only be the products I grow to like.  They have carried the
same mega pack of 1000 count dish towels and one ton box
of individual ketchup packets since the beginning of time but
they've  discontinued my jeans, ratchet straps and pickles at
least three times in the last few years.  I'm beginning to sense
a conspiracy.
    I will solve these problems just like I did the parking situation
over time.  As well as the inadequate portion size on the free samples
they hand out and the  mysterious way they sneak a minimum of
a hundred dollars worth of merchandise into your cart when you
simply stop in to pick up a prescription.   I first got suspicious when
the cashier kept asking me "Did you find everything ok ?"  I take
that as proof positive that they are hiding items from me.
I have my eyes open!  They will slip up.. and when they do I will
catch them and they will know exactly who they are dealing with.
I will never have to get my receipt checked at the door
again!