Customers think eggs keep moving location - been in the same place for 15 years

[Klonc]

Work p/t for a supermarket for 19 years now. Most days we get customers say ‘I wish you stop moving the eggs’. The eggs have been in the same place for 15 years. I’m not the only colleague that hears this. We do say they have been there for 15 years. A colleague got married in the two weeks that the store was closed for the refit and that was when eggs moved and stayed.

I wish customers would stop falsely accusing that the eggs keep moving.

I work in a supermarket. The coleslaw moved 3 years ago and every single day at least 3 people moan about it.

I find the eggs are always in a weird place (not that they move). I would put them near dairy, not in baking or wherever they seem to appear.

Are you sure they aren't thinking of the chocolate ones you had all over the place a few months ago??!!

I wish the supermarkets would stop rearranging things tho.
Our eggs have moved. As has the sugar. The mushrooms frequently get relocated.
And as for the tomatoes which cam be found labeled "citrus fruit"....

That would annoying me tbh

I love this thread! It's one of life's constant mysteries where the eggs belong in supermarkets. There's no other product so fiendishly elusive, which feels fitting for the symbol of life's origin! May we never truly solve the mystery...

YANBU.

I used to work alongside the team that basically decides where things go in a supermarket.

It's a MASSIVE deal to move product locations, where I used to work it was twice a year only if that. Even bigger deal to move entire departments. They dont move stuff around just for fun, or 'to make me walk past other products so I pick them up on the way'

Funnily enough as mentioned by PP eggs and mushrooms famously have no obvious home

Eggs in my Asda are nowhere near the baking aisle. They’re by the fridges of fruit juice and pizza express things !

Our Asda are always moving things !!

Our Morrisons has green beans in the "Exotic Vegetables".

You do have to move things a bit because different things need move/less space at different times of year. There are teams of people working out the pros and cons behind doing so all the time- customers often think things just move on a whim when in fact supermarkets are constantly calculating how to maximise profits.

In my shop they are on the end of aisle four, (Tea, coffee, biscuits, International, tinned), opposite seasonal. Not particularly logical I must admit, but they are listed on the signage (which absolutely nobody looks at. Ever.)

You tried be a customer, taking my gran food shopping. We walk into a shop and she instantly turns to me and goes " where's the milk, the bread, the cereal?" Like I frigging work there

I'm always confused where to find eggs. That's quite funny that collectively we are all confused.

Another supermarket worker here. Eggs are the number one asked for thing here too. Ours are by the baking section.

Egg Mandela effect

Stop moving the coleslaw at least then.

Have a bun.

I think changing everything else in the aisles confuses people. If they associate the biscuit aisle with eggs then it changes to bread they look for eggs near the biscuit aisle again.

Eggs are always hard to find!

I've had to stop and think where Tesco has eggs at the moment.

They're at the end of the soap powder, tampax, biscuits and cleaning supplies aisle. The baking supplies are put next to the free from every third week (to ensure all the FF items get a lovely dusting of gluten) except for nuts, oils and dried fruit, which are next to the magazines, the FF shelf has cat food and cereal and the burgers, promotional cheese and ham have just evicted the vegan options so that they can keep the chilled alcohol company by the bin bags.

At least you know where you (and the eggs) are with the Co-op.

I don't think eggs belong in the baking aisle! They should be near the milk and cheese 😂

Does anything?

So what's the reason you want us all to believe, then?

1)Ask customers where they first looked for the eggs;
2) move the eggs to that location.

My local Co-op had a refit recently and it has honestly fucked with my mind for months trying re-learn the layout. I’m now terrified I will feel like this for another 15 years. 😟

It is no yolk that Egg Location False Memory is a natural phenomomen in most modern humans, poached from the Neanderthals.
Entering a supermarket is an, ahem, OUEFerload on the senses. Humans can experience a form
of shell shock. All the eggs-citing offers, sights, sounds, people taking; bright lights. It’s eggs-hausting.
No longer hunter-gathers, modern humans have evolved to react to such oueferstimulation by becoming eggsplorers. Searching for those magic protein wonky spheres.
Pensioners most oueften do a big shop on a Fry-Day; and they usually suspect some practical
yolk-er has moved the eggs.
Modern humans are afraid of being beaten, although most are omelette smarter than they look.
That’s enough science for one day, yolks!