Groceries, Mostly

It's rather unsettling to go into a different grocery store from the one you are used to patronizing. I find this to be true anyway. Obviously a store from another chain is going to be different in a variety of ways, but it's easy to adjust to that. You're very ready for the differences, and maybe even value them some. One chain will be strong in the bread area, and another may have overall better prices on things, but you need both.

Of course it's another matter when two locations of the same chain are different. Now, I like the differences I see in clientele. There has to be some advantage to doing your shopping in a more fashionable area of town once in a while, or even in a lesser area. It's just another change of pace in a life that can easily become dull- every once in a while, why not trade the people who live and buy food near you for those who do so elsewhere?

I don't like the way layouts will be different. There's some necessity in that, as stores lie on different plots of land, and accommodations must be made to fit things in as well as possible. That's not to say that they always do a good job of that, and really I don't know why compromises have to entail anything being in a wildly different area of the store from where I'm used to it being. Are they trying to disorient us for a purpose?

Maybe this is one more thing that I'm over-thinking, but I really would rather they made things more uniform. That's part of the appeal in shopping at a chain. My suggestion about shopping outside of your home neighborhood aside, it's probably the case that things aren't going the way they normally do if you shop in a strange location, and so it would be nice if the inside at least looked like the inside of your own place. One must have a rock in their life to help deal with the turbulent changes, and that is mine.