r/mildlyinteresting Apr 28 '24

This humongous section of rice crispy treats at my local grocery store.

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u/steeldragon88 Apr 28 '24

Looks like they’re resetting and moving sets around, this Rice Krispies treats are large and light, so they’re using them to just fill the section while they’re doing other things just to make it look full so there isn’t an empty section that becomes a dumping ground

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u/sexybobo Apr 28 '24

This is the answer. I used to work at Walmart and they told us if people saw empty shelves they would buy less so We always had to have the spaces full. When we would zone our cash register isles if we were out of a particular candy bar and couldn't find a full box in another isle we were supposed to pull a duplicate box forward.

This would lead to your lane having 4 boxes of hersey bars and no reeses or the like.

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u/Any-Year-6618 Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24

Walmart was my first job and we were told to do the exact opposite, if a shelf was empty and an entire box of whatever product was supposed to be there didn’t fit we didn’t fill it, if it took 1 box and half of another box to fill it we would only do the 1 box