Milk and meat are around the periphery because their display cases are connected to (or close to) the bulk cold storage in the stores. It's part of preserving the "cold chain" of ensuring that products that need constant refrigeration throughout the supply chain actually get constant refrigeration.
Most of the marketing text written about grocery store layouts was developed after the layouts were already in use. Most of the layout quirks are the way they are for more practical and mundane reasons. Layout as
I kind of think this is BS. The closest local large grocery store has their cold storage shelves (frozen and refrigerated) along the back and side walls of the entire store. Your argument about practicality would make more sense if all of it was concentrated at the back of the store, but cold storage is like a giant U surrounding the packaged goods in the center of the store. AFAICT there is no rear access to larger bulk cold storage on any of these shelves, and most don't even have easy access to the "back room" area of the store, which I don't think is even all that big or even big enough to hold a lot of stock.
Plus, any newly built grocery stores could easily place cold storage anywhere. When it's a new store, they could easily run branch lines for power or bulk chiller feeds in the floor to where they wanted the cold items. If they wanted rear stocking or storage, just make a 6 foot wide aisle inside the larger chiller compartment (ala Costco).
It also doesn't seem like most large groceries even have that much of a "back room warehouse" for cold or packaged goods. The consumer accessible shelves seem like they are the warehouse, for cold or room temperature packaged goods.
Next time you go shopping. Look at the back wall of the cold storage. You will either be able to see directly into the fridge or a small sliding door for access.
There are 2 typical kinds you will see. Stand alone and cold attached. The cold attached will typically have a door on the back wall to easily let the people in back doing the stocking do it without the item leaving storage.
Storage shows up at random times of the day but most of the time stocking happens at night when the store is closed or low
Have you ever been to a grocery store? (Score:3)
Milk, cheese, and eggs WAAAAAAY at the back. And you have to walk past candy and general merchandise (the high profit stuff).
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Milk and meat are around the periphery because their display cases are connected to (or close to) the bulk cold storage in the stores. It's part of preserving the "cold chain" of ensuring that products that need constant refrigeration throughout the supply chain actually get constant refrigeration.
Most of the marketing text written about grocery store layouts was developed after the layouts were already in use. Most of the layout quirks are the way they are for more practical and mundane reasons. Layout as
Re:Have you ever been to a grocery store? (Score:3)
I kind of think this is BS. The closest local large grocery store has their cold storage shelves (frozen and refrigerated) along the back and side walls of the entire store. Your argument about practicality would make more sense if all of it was concentrated at the back of the store, but cold storage is like a giant U surrounding the packaged goods in the center of the store. AFAICT there is no rear access to larger bulk cold storage on any of these shelves, and most don't even have easy access to the "back room" area of the store, which I don't think is even all that big or even big enough to hold a lot of stock.
Plus, any newly built grocery stores could easily place cold storage anywhere. When it's a new store, they could easily run branch lines for power or bulk chiller feeds in the floor to where they wanted the cold items. If they wanted rear stocking or storage, just make a 6 foot wide aisle inside the larger chiller compartment (ala Costco).
It also doesn't seem like most large groceries even have that much of a "back room warehouse" for cold or packaged goods. The consumer accessible shelves seem like they are the warehouse, for cold or room temperature packaged goods.
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Next time you go shopping. Look at the back wall of the cold storage. You will either be able to see directly into the fridge or a small sliding door for access.
There are 2 typical kinds you will see. Stand alone and cold attached. The cold attached will typically have a door on the back wall to easily let the people in back doing the stocking do it without the item leaving storage.
Storage shows up at random times of the day but most of the time stocking happens at night when the store is closed or low