to be annoyed at M&S food shops changing their shelves round every other day?

[betterwhenthesunshines]

You go down the chees aisle to find cheese, although it's not cheese anymore. Now it's ready meals. And where the ready meals used to be, now is the fruit juices and desserts.

How much time do they spend doing this??! I go in about once a week and spend time walking in circles just trying to find stuff that has moved since my last visit. It's like musical chairs - is everyone else's local M&S like this or do they just do it here for their own amusement?

[Helpyourself]

How did you get on better?

[betterwhenthesunshines]

OK, so if i go today to get fishcakes for tea. I'm thinking fishcakes, but what shall I actually come out with.....? I promise I won't froth at the mouth in fury (although I may do a bit of under-my-breath muttering).

[KittyFane1]

Helpyourself I doubt very much that OP and others have full on tantrums in the middle of M+S when shelves are moved. This post is about a minor gripe, people on this thread can hardly be described as angry frothing beserkers!!

[Helpyourself]

It's not about being virtuous- I don't like charging around in a frothing berserker state. 90% of the time if I can contextualise what's going on- I calm down.
But if you like being angry, that's fine.

[KittyFane1]

OP, I ask so many staff to show me where things are in my local M+S they may as well give me my own personal shopper!

[KittyFane1]

Slap me OP, but whenever I find myself getting irritated by queues or stuff moving, I think 'First World problem' and thank my lucky stars
Thank you for this reminder to remain virtuous at all times helpyourself.

[bellabreeze]

YANBU, I really wonder what their reasons are for changing shops around! Really annoys me when they do it... especially when I am just running in to pick 1 or 2 things up and end up having to go round the whole shop looking for it!

[squoosh]

YANBU

Dear Marks, your ploy to make me buy tinned ham will never work! I really don't care if it's sitting where the tea cakes should be, tinned ham and I will never be intimates.

[DameFannyGallopsAtaGhost]

I'm with the OP. Any time I try to nip into marks at lunchtime I end up stomping and muttering round the aisles till I can grab an assistant and hiss 'where did you out the milk' at them.

Doesn't help that the ceiling is really low in ours, so I get claustrophobia and shop-rage in one tight shiny package

[CombineBananaFister]

Actually believe it or not they don't do it out of some 'trying to get you to spend more evilness' Which as a business wouldn't be end of the world. But unlike the big supermarkets they are honestly tryin to keep food airmiles down and being slightly ethical (reducing waste, local supply etc) so they have to reduce/increase shelf size of a product depending on offers/availabilty and seasonality. It just means they have to be more flexible than the big three because they need to sell it now and lots of it before they move on to the next thing because its not available year round. Personally I don't mind the inconvenience for this. Read their plan A comittments, its an eye opener

[YouMayLogOut]

Oooh, chocolate popcorn sounds good! :)

[maryquant]

Yes here too move stock all the time
The little tubs of olives and artichoke hearts have gone!
The Christmas biscuits are in
And there is always a bottleneck and the end of aisles where they put the 'Eat in for £10'
Their flowers are really overpriced
But I do love their chocolate popcorn.

[Hassled]

I only ever buy Salmon En Croute from M&S (have an obsession with how lovely it is) and if I couldn't find my way straight to the salmon I'd be dangerous. I do bloody hate shop change-arounds - I don't want to potter my way round; I want to be in and out again like a speeding bullet.

[Viviennemary]

They've always run out of the very thing you wanted. Or even worse don't do it any more, only do it at the larger branches. Only the larger branches have always sold out. Infuriating.

[LadyBeagleEyes]

They've just done that in the Inverness M&S too.
Yes it's annoying.
Helpyourself

[Annunziata]

And the Silverburn, now I think about it, Euphemia.

My mum won't go in the Sauchiehall St one now, shame. I don't notice it so much in Asda etc either. John Lewis is pretty fixed.

[Glittertwins]

I admit I have also flounced as well!

[Glittertwins]

M&S have always done this throughout the store. It's done to make us part with more money, the idea being you buy something you wouldn't ordinarily buy from where you auto piloted to as well as what you originally went in for.

[betterwhenthesunshines]

Of course it's a first world problem, never said it was anything else - just asked if other people found it annoying too. Turns out that most do.

[YouMayLogOut]

(I'm old, I need to not get set in my ways :o)

[YouMayLogOut]

You might not spend more that day, no. But they will be moving things in a way that will make more people spend more over the months ahead.

"Same old, same old" will give people a comforting feeling but there won't be anything new to seduce them over the weeks ahead. They'll be getting ready to introduce more Christmas goodies and tempting offers for one thing.