Where's the beef (and beer)? Grocery store gives guys a 'man aisle'

MSN ^ | 07/26/2012 | By Jessica Chou

[OldMissileer]

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?.”

My daughter went with me to the Commissary a couple of weeks ago. I had a list of about 25 items. We were in and out in less than 30 minutes.

My daughter thought that was the coolest thing as my wife will spend two or three hours shopping there.

[bobo1]

I know how that is. My x-wife left me with three children and I have done all the shopping for the past 40 some odd years.

Even had to buy “pads” for my girls cuz they were too embarrassed when they were teens.

Still do all the shopping even though remarried. Somehow, I enjoy it.

Blessings, Bobo

[radiohead]

<You don’t have Menards nearby, do you?

I knew I’d seen this somewhere! I don’t get to Menards that much, but yeah, they have some food staples and snacks. I thought it was a great idea. I didn’t check the prices, so I don’t know if you get ripped off buying bread at Menards instead of a regular grocery story, but it certainly is convenient.

[CORedneck]

Play for later.....

[Arrowhead1952]

A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need, and then bitch about the item being in the way six months later.

Running and ducking..

[CORedneck]

That is why I hate shopping especailly when I don’t want to waste time. This is what I most detest about Wal-Mart like putting all the men oriented stuff in the farther corner of the store in addition to having a lack of cashiers where you have to stand in line for 20 minutes to pay for your stuff.

And every once in a while, re-arrange the whole store is what really p*sses me off.

> The whole point of grocery store layout is to make it inconvenient for the shopper, making them traverse as much of store area as possible to get to the most commonly-desired items, so that they will buy more stuff on impulse, seeing it as they pass by.

[Sherman Logan]

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

Well, no. There's an aisle for Mexican (or whatever) food. I'm not Hispanic, but that's where I buy most of what I eat.

[Sherman Logan]

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

Well, no. There's an aisle for Mexican (or whatever) food. I'm not Hispanic, but that's where I buy most of what I eat.

[BIV]

“Men purchase, women shop.”
You got that right. I have said that for years; it’s a truism because it’s true.
I also tell my boys, when headed to the grocery store, that this endeavor is like surgery: Get in and get out as quickly as possible.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Maybe if they didn’t rely on that old trick of making their customers wander around like a blind dog at the fair they might see an increase in business from people that hate being treated like that.