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.

Has other stuff moved?
So if people think that eggs are opposite to cereal, maybe it’s cereal that has moved?

Another thing that annoys shop staff, which a FB group of retail workers mention this a lot

"Have you stopped selling (product)"
"We haven't sold it for a few years now"
"I always buy it from here and bought last week"
"You might have bought it from another store"
"No I only shop here"

Stop pulling the wool over our eyes

You still not answered the question why do customers claim that we keep moving the eggs when they have been in the same place for 13 years?

The items around eggs has not changed. Between baking items and free from (free from was expanded by condensing the breakfast cereals - which is the other side of FF). Then opposite its the honey, jam and Nutella.

My husband and I run a shop together, which we started from scratch (so it's never had any other owners). We regularly get told we used to be in a location which we weren't or that we used to sell something we've never stocked. I used to politely explain I own the shop and maybe they are thinking of a different place. Some people are really adamant though and will maintain it was under the previous (non existent owners), so now I just smile and nod.

Like the Mandela effect, but with eggs. Interesting.

Bread, butter, milk and eggs should all be next to each other on my opinion.

Can it top walkers who have had customers complain to them for decades that they swapped the colour packets of cheese and onion and salt and vinegar through.

That'll never die while my generation is alive I think.

Because they visit different stores?

Would that be a Sainsbury's?

My favourite at the moment is that we've moved the toilets.... err... they've been in the same place for 10yrs.

They are in Tesco opposite the cereal and next to the biscuits

Whereas in our local Tesco they are nowhere near the tampons!
They are next to the sugar, honey, jam, peanut butter opposite bread products that are not loaves of bread (crumpets et al)

It might be a secret code for spies? “Where have you moved the eggs” might be relating to nuclear codes? You are supposed to answer, “the eagle has landed”.

@Klonc Do you remember singing the Quartermaster’s Store? Maybe at school or something like guide camp?
Asking because many people sang it, and they my subconsciously remember the line:

”There were eggs! Eggs! Running about on legs! In the store! In the store!
There were eggs! Eggs! Running around on legs, in the quartermaster’s store.

My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me etc….

😁 This is why people think eggs move about in the store!

One supermarket I shop in (it likes to call its shops grocers rather than supermarkets) has eggs in 2 locations. Loose eggs are in front of the butcher's, deli and fish counters, whereas boxed eggs are near the baking stuff.

In Sainsbury's they definitely move the eggs every few years. Currently they are near the bread, and they used to be at the end of an aisle, where the free from stuff is now. All the cooking oil is now next to the free from stuff at the end of an aisle. Not next to vinegar and sauces, spices and herbs, where I would expect it to be.

And for some reason half the household/cleaning stuff/foil/bags is next to the pet food right at the very end of the store.

This is why I get a home delivery. From Tesco. I'd be lost for days trying to do a weekly shop.

M&S are always moving things around. It’s annoying. Saying that, I don’t think the eggs do move. Just all the things in fridges. I do think eggs are hard to find even when they don’t move. Agree they don’t have a natural place. It is my absolute big bear that supermarkets stop selling the products I buy 5 or 6 times a week. And then they do deny ever having them. Not saying you do it, but it is a thing.

I don't know first you said the eggs haven't moved for 15 years, now you're saying 13 years. I get the feeling the eggs are being moved LOL

Jokes aside, it must be terribly frustrating. On the other side of the coin, at Christmas I went to my local supermarket looking for something I hadn't brought for a long time. I looked where I thought it would be and came across a worker and asked them if it still existed. They were amazing and went out of their way to find it for me. Turns out they did stock it but were out

But are you sure OP 😁

That’s why I posted the gif above @AntaresAltered 🤣 ( couldn’t believe it when I spotted your post after, great minds )

I have an earworm now for the Quarter Master’s Store. There should be a Mumsnet version!

Tell them it’s so the hens can’t find them and get broody again

Eggs are the one thing l am always looking for in supermarkets. I have a regular store and for some reason always have a mind blank about where the eggs are. I never ask but l am always searching..its weird.

@AntaresAltered, your eggcelent post scrambled my brain somewhat!

They should put them next to the chickens. With an over-aisle sign, readable from both sides, saying "EGGSISTENTIAL".