You know you're an adult when you walk into your regular grocery store. .

[GiqueCee]

20. It's absolutely true...

... that they do it on purpose to confuse shoppers that get the store wired, as they say, and make them scramble to find what they usually buy. It pisses off the staff, too. They all have routes and procedures for restocking shelves, and product reps that stock their client's stuff get their routines screwed up, too.
Corporate management has zero interest in pleasing their customers; that's just an advertising tag line, not an operational concept. Concern for the employees at any given store is pretty much nonexistent; they're just human capital, a tiny notch above livestock.
I read not long ago that maybe a dozen or so companies own every supermarket in the country. Might even be fewer than a dozen. For instance Albertsons, second only to Krogers in acquisitions, owns around 16 chains, with 2,253 stores at last count. The point is, monopoly ain't just a board game, and politicians in thrall to the oligarchs consider moribund antitrust laws to be little more than a punchline. Consumers that those laws were intended to protect don't pump millions in dark money into political campaign chests, oligarchs do.

Sorry, is my cynicism showing?