Timing is critical. Trying to get there with the least customers but the most stock. Of course when the least customers are there is when the asiles are blocked with pallets and stockers. Oh, and the guys cleaning the floors too.
It seems Pathmark and Acme both know what I want and put them as far as possible from each other with lots of stuff I don't want in between.
Once I learn where everything I normally buy is located, they rearange the store.
The person at the desk can help. Just wait for them to take care of the people picking up photos, buying cigarettes, lottery tickets, sending a UPS package and bitching about a bad cart when there's 3000 more to choose from.
One one that gets me is when I buy 10 packages of frozen fish. They're all the same price but the cashier (well, most of them) scrape the ice and frost off the UPC code to scan each one instead of scanning one and punching in 10. Of course it's still faster than catching and cleaning them.
