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Where's the beef (and beer)? Grocery store gives guys a 'man aisle'
MSN ^ | 07/26/2012 | By Jessica Chou

Posted on 07/26/2012 9:56:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Sometime last year, Procter & Gamble Co. was throwing around some crazy ideas of creating a grocery aisle specifically for men, apparently a brand new breed of consumers walking around grocery stores.

The idea was to give the lonely male lost in a supermarket a fun shopping experience, putting everything a man's man would need in one place. And New York City's Westside Market has gone and done just that.

"People rarely cater to men in the supermarket," COO Ian Joskowitz told us over the phone. "So I thought let’s do something fun, get people talking, something guys would like. So we started discussion, and it’s funny because most of us came up with a very similar list."

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TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: groceries; grocery; males; manaisle; men; misandry; shopping
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Sexism? or a good idea?
1 posted on 07/26/2012 9:56:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hmm, this article was just posted on FR and pulled for some reason.


2 posted on 07/26/2012 9:59:45 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This article take the position that men in the grocery store are unusual. Not around here. I’d say 60% women, 40% men.


3 posted on 07/26/2012 9:59:52 AM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: Responsibility2nd

We’ll assume one side of the aisle contains selections from the orange food group....

(chips, cookies, snacks,.....)


4 posted on 07/26/2012 9:59:52 AM PDT by G Larry (I'm under no obligation to be a passive victim!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Im sure the cake and circuses aisle cant be far behind....


5 posted on 07/26/2012 10:00:12 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Responsibility2nd

How can it be sexism when women already have their own aisles?


6 posted on 07/26/2012 10:00:59 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: saganite

Apparently the previous post included a copyrighted image.


7 posted on 07/26/2012 10:01:15 AM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: saganite

I know. I posted it. But there are always SOME people....


8 posted on 07/26/2012 10:02:09 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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The idea was to give the lonely male lost in a supermarket a fun shopping experience

Because everyone knows if a man shops by himself or is single he must be lonely.
9 posted on 07/26/2012 10:02:34 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If you can have the four basic food groups—beer, bratwurst, pizza, and ice cream—all in the same aisle, this is a good thing.


10 posted on 07/26/2012 10:02:41 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Jack Hydrazine

And in some grocery stores there’s a whole aisle for the Mexicans, Latinos, Hispanics or however you want to define them.


11 posted on 07/26/2012 10:03:02 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s a good idea. They should also create a dinner in 30 minutes aisle. Full of good ideas and recipes. Folks might stop at the grocery store instead of McD’s.


12 posted on 07/26/2012 10:03:12 AM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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To: Responsibility2nd

how long before Bloomberg tries to ban it?


13 posted on 07/26/2012 10:03:41 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

well many of the guys at college will never walk inot the mans aisle, hell most of them look like little weenies and women anyway.
Then there are the left wing pompous elitist men , who lets his wife control him will never be alllowed to walk down a mans aisle.


14 posted on 07/26/2012 10:04:18 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Don’t forget the Lewinsky-approved and endorsed cigars!


15 posted on 07/26/2012 10:04:50 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Chock Full of Nuts coffee and Gulden's mustard.
Someone has the right idea.
16 posted on 07/26/2012 10:04:50 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Everything is about sexism when it comes to that kind of stuff, isn’t it.
This was, of course, spawned by a recent ESPN study showing that 31 percent of grocery shoppers are now men, in comparison to the 14 percent in 1985. …
The left continues its assault on the traditional family.
17 posted on 07/26/2012 10:07:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: upchuck

I don’t need a man aisle. I can read the signs and walk at the same time.

Often, when we just need something quick, I’ll leave my wife in the car and go inside alone. Every time I come back, she asks, “How’d you do that so fast?”.

Maybe the new metro males are dumb, but navigating a grocery store has never been too difficult.


18 posted on 07/26/2012 10:07:38 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Real men aren’t so insecure that they need this sort of thing.


19 posted on 07/26/2012 10:08:05 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

I think it’s funny. The comments at the article indicate that some people have their panties in such a wad that they can’t see the humor in it.


20 posted on 07/26/2012 10:08:35 AM PDT by melissa_in_ga (Laz would hit it.)
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