I’m with you balonya. I only ever use a handbasket at the grocery store, and that shit gets annoying having to constantly rearrange to keep the produce off the bottom.
I’m sure the location of the produce, like everything else in a grocery store, has been carefully studied and calculated to bring the store the most money. I don’t know why putting produce right in the door is the best idea, but it seems to be set up that way at every supermarket I go to so it has to have its (monetary) reasons.
The produce is near the front because market research indicates that as people walk through it, it instills a sense of “freshness” that stays with them as they continue shopping through all the pre-packaged crap. You’ll notice that they only started doing this in larger stores in the late 80’s or so. If you go into an older store, the low ceiling and organization make it a less inviting place to shop.
You’ll also notice that the put bread and milk on opposite ends of the store generally. And kids cereal is always near the bottom shelf where kids are more likely to see it.
As for packing your cart/basket, if you really can’t figure out how not to put your soup cans on top of your grapes, I can’t really help you.
Bread chips, are also vulnerable!
Donlt worry I make it through the store, with produce intact. This just something that bugs me
This thread is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S bananas!
Shut up. 
beat me to it.
I thought it was “bandanas” I was kind of confused at first.
[quote=“balonya”]Since this is somewhat related, I will vent here!
One of the things I find irritating, or just plain stupid for lack of though in design is that most grocery stores, food markets (what ever you call them where you are from) have the produce section right when you walk in the store. I find this to be ass backwards, Produce is among the most delicate item they sell. Why I ask, would any one design a store so that the item most likely to be damaged gets put in first so that every thing ells goes on top of them?
Thank you I feel better[/quote]
start at the back and work your way forward like everyone else
just buy green bananas and they wont bruise as easely
around here carts have two level, so produce goes on top basket, everything else on bottom level.
makes packing your bags easier to so you dont have to pull crap from the bottom and keep the produce for the top of the bags.
c’mon people evolve, those crapie 1 big basket cart are so 80’
[quote=“TimArchy”]The produce is near the front because market research indicates that as people walk through it, it instills a sense of “freshness” that stays with them as they continue shopping through all the pre-packaged crap. You’ll notice that they only started doing this in larger stores in the late 80’s or so. If you go into an older store, the low ceiling and organization make it a less inviting place to shop.
You’ll also notice that the put bread and milk on opposite ends of the store generally. And kids cereal is always near the bottom shelf where kids are more likely to see it.
As for packing your cart/basket, if you really can’t figure out how not to put your soup cans on top of your grapes, I can’t really help you.[/quote]
Oh man visual layout of stores is insane. Thats just the basic stuff. There’s super intense stuff out there (I used to work in a building with people who did the research and planning for layouts) where in XXXXX stores people who bought XXXXXX were then more inclined to spend $300 extra per year on register goodies. Thats why XXXXX is always the first section of XXXXX stores.