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?

[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.

[YouMayLogOut]

Oooh, chocolate popcorn sounds good! :)

[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

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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!

[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]

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!!

[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).

[Helpyourself]

How did you get on better?