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isn't struggling to deal with change one of the classic autism traits?
Yeah but also its incredibly normal to get mad when the shop changes layouts. They do it on purpose, creating extra work for the workers, extra time and effort for you, because they've pushed some bullshit charts around a table and have scientifically deduced that they can squeeze an extra couple of quid out of you.
Actually infuriating.
Is that something that happens regulary in your place? Here in germany, I've only seen it after they renovated or replacex old fridges or something
yes, usa grocery stores change their layouts once every other year or so. it's because they think it will increase sales.
they're just pushing more higher margin products. they'll restock the 'basics' more frequently as a result of giving those things less shelf space.
The aging population and those with disabilities is also part of the demand for ready to eat items in addition to those that just don't have the time anymore because they work two jobs and want something better than fast food.
In Canada, all the fucking time. I find it infuriating. Never more than a year goes by, often less.
That quick in and out isn't quick anymore.
In the USA there's studies and such that track how to maximize money from someone shopping. Milk is a well used staple, so it's always in the fucking back of the store. So you have to go past most everything else to get to it. Then end caps have special, cheap pick up deals for someone who is just here for milk that they may not pass up. Then the checkout the rule is something like $3 and less for items there. Candy, water, soda, everything a kid craves right there to whine and pester the parents about.
Garron Noone wrote a song about it. Blame the English cunts.
https://youtube.com/shorts/eclsjhfXX1c?is=Ft-qNKubID9dJDel
It's also normal to become less accepting of change as you age. I think this has to do with decreasing neural plasticity and the "crystalized" intelligence (accumulation of information) that comes with age even as "fluid" intelligence (processing speed, etc) declines.
Synaptic strengthening happens as you age - you will lose neuronal density, but the neuronal connections you still have are stronger and more efficient. The myelin sheaths around these neurons thicken well into middle age. The distracting neuronal channels, things that didn't serve you over your years of experience, have died off leaving only the most effective connections.
So, you're old, you know how stuff is supposed to be. You work well within that framework. When things change, it's harder for you to keep up with it. It puts your brain under proportionally more load.
So you get mad when the bread aisle moves.
changing the grocery store aisles is annoying because you can't shop from habit anymore and you have to figure out the new layout. after you adapt by going a few items you forget about it. it's annoying to go to aisle 4 for bread and then it's all chips and you have to figure out where they moved the bread, and it's on the other side of the store.
it has nothing to do with autism. normies get annoyed when they change it, and i was annoyed as a child when they changed it.
it's been almost a year here, i'm still going down (what my mind thinks is) the 'correct' aisle, only to be reminded when i get there that what i'm looking for i literally walked past a minute earlier, five rows back.