To be fed up of high shelves in supermarkets?

[PoliteCritic]

I am 5ft 3, so not tiny, but I am increasingly unable to reach lots of things at the supermarket, even in the fresh fruit and veg section. People always say just to ask someone, but I literally have to ask about 5 or 6 people in a normal supermarket shop.
I normally shop at ALDI and M and S, are there any supermarkets that do not stack food so high? I am really so fed up of it.

I think the reasoning there is that buying stuff for kids is more likely to be a need than a want, so they’re assuming parents will take the trouble to get upstairs & hoping they might pick stuff up for themselves on the way.

Just a suggestion, when you arrive in the shop ask at the welcome desk/a staff member to escort you round and help you shop. My local Waitrose does this for people with disabilities

Bottom shelves are my issue, I can get down there but my dodgy knees mean I have huge difficulty getting back up. Have been known to crawl across the aisle looking for somewhere to cling on to and drag myself up 🥴

ALDI seem terrible with mixed cases in deciding what will be most popular. There are certain items that are always hard to get while all the other options are always there.

I’m 5’6 so don’t have much trouble, it’s only if the stuff I want is at the back of the shelf, my husband is 6’2 and is always being asked to get stuff of the top shelf for people, I say i’m going to start renting him out.

Also have no idea which flavours etc are most popular in terms of sales as all got the same barcode

@Mokel I had no idea they all had the same barcode. That explains why they are so bad with amounts in mixed cases.

Sometimes on the receipt a product from a mixed case can say a/b/c - where a b and c are the different products in the mixed case. Or just says fruit squash which covers orange, summer fruits, apple and blackcurrant etc.

The worst offender for mixed cases are their Alpen Light bars. Loads of apple and sultana, some red berry ones and hardly any chocolate.

With their own brand sanitary towels, the night time ones always go quickly, then heavy flow, and their normal ones sell much more slowly.

I totally agree. I am 5ft 2 and this has been a problem for me for as long as I can remember. I usually have to ask for help several times on my way round the supermarket.

Increasingly, things on the very bottom shelves are also a problem because as I get older getting right down and then back up again isn't getting any easier either.

My sister once got upended into an open freezer by a rushing crowd of older ladies pursuing the yellow sticker man. I wasn't there to see it, but by god I wish I was. Luckily she saw the funny side. Apart from the fact they got to the yellow sticker stuff first.