Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 27, 2023

Mice don’t really like cheese, but they love peanut butter.

tell me about it

Who Moved my Cheese?

Hear, hear! I hate that.

cheese & crackers!

those dirty rats have done it again

I wanna squeak to the manager

Ahh, rats!

Just about the time I had them memorized, they switched them again. Must be a new manager (or somebody bought out the store).

It’s amazing that they get away with that

That’s not a store you’re standing in!!

I like those maze mouse cartoons

Yeah, we’re like rats in a maze in more ways than Wal-Mart changing up how they stock the groceries.

Variety and Change can be great but sometimes “Change is wrong!”

Stores do this deliberate to prevent “raiding.” A raid is when you run into the store, go directly to the item you want, snatch it off the shelf and dash through the self-checkout.

By changing everything around you have to hunt down your quarry and go through other items that you might buy on impulse.

It’s also the reason the dairy department is in the back of the store: you have to walk past everything else to get there. Inconvenient for customers, profitable for the store.

I like the cartoon that shows a maze and where the rat has gnawed its way through the walls in a straight line to the cheese.

Looks like the line at TSA at the airport to me.

That drives my wife crazy too.

It’s A-maze-ing !

I hate these meces to pieces!

When I am Queen of the World, it’ll be against the law to re-arrange a store. Whether you are in Portland, Maine, or Portland, Oregon, you will be able to enter a grocery store and find what you need in an efficient manner.

Oh! And the cereals will be alphabetized. All-Bran on the upper left and Wheaties on the lower right. Same for shampoos and toothpastes.

I’ve got plans, my friends…

I’m so glad that donut shops don’t do this!

When a store changes where everything is, I just start frequenting the other major store.

Ralph’s does it to me every time…

i really don’t like when stores I shop at feel theneed to change their layouts.

They all do it, so I just heave a sigh, and start wandering every aisle until I find what I need. Eventually, it all stabilizes and I memorize the new layout.

Dr Spencer Johnson called. He’d like you to knock it off.

(RIP, Dr Johnson)

it feels like that at times, don’t it. especially around the holidays.