. . . I don’t like it. Recently, Google News (http://news.google.com/) changed the layout of their site. Google News is one of the sites I’ve become addicted to. As far as I’m concerned, their new format is for crap. Although you can customize the page, you lose that every time you dump your cookies, and I do that quite often. And even customized, the page is not what it once was. If I perceived some benefit to these changes, I wouldn’t complain. But like so many other changes that I see, it seems to me like it was change for the sake of change.I have a friend who managed the café at one of a chain bookstore’s locations. She says that once a month, “the suits” would mandate that her stock be displayed in a different way. Every three or four months, the stuff would be back in its original locations. Change for the sake of change. I know that some of it is marketing, but I think that most of it is suits justifying their existence.
I also think this must be part of the natural process of becoming an old(er) coot, like my intolerance for loud noise/music (unless I generate it) and my general disdain for the “younger generation” and their habits and mores. I’m getting even crankier, if that’s possible. Thanks for letting me vent.
Change? No thanks, I don’t have or want any.
I don't do well with change, initially. I eventually figure out the differences, but I don't like having my world shaken.
ReplyDeleteWhen stores remodel, it takes me twice as long, or longer to shop. I forget items I meant to buy. I hate that, since I do not like to shop in the first place.
I do think it helps the store's bottom line. The longer a shopper is in a store, the more money they tend to spend. It also makes you go back if you miss an item...grrr.
Orbs, there is a way to exclude certain cookies when you dump them.(my default is every time I close my browser)
I had to exclude Blogger. Remember when I lost the pencil, edit option about a year ago? I think that was the solution... but gee, being an old coot trainee myself, my memory sometimes fails me and I could be mistaken.
I agree Orbs, I hate change.. I understand a store doing it like KK says.. it keeps you there longer and more of a chance to buy things.. so that's ok on their part but man it sucks to be the consumer.. and websites change too much.. My internet bank just changed a couple of weeks ago and I'm still trying to figure it out.. not cool when it's dealing with money..
ReplyDeleteThe Piggly Wiggly on Erie St. moved around their stock a few years ago. Aargh! Wal Mart just did the same. That's the kind of stuff that drives me to other stores.
ReplyDeleteI was at a Target in Oshkosh yesterday.. kinds freaked me out because the store was set up totally opposite of the Racine one!
ReplyDeleteI don't do change, I rather have a tantrum when my world is messed with, ask anyone I work with :)
ReplyDeleteI think about my days as a starving grad student...I had some good times but on the whole, I am happy that changed.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of change.....That kid looks like he's having a power poopie!
ReplyDeleteThat's the infamous Angry Baby who was all the rage for his five seconds of fame on the internet.
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