
grocery store moved the pasta again. third rearrange since july. and every time they do this they act like it's a customer-experience improvement when it's actually a foot-traffic experiment being run ON me without consent, and i walked six extra aisles tonight for spaghetti, and it made me think about the most cursed franchise in this league, because both situations are the same thing: someone upstream keeps 'optimizing' a system that already worked and just breaks the muscle memory of everyone downstream who trusted it. that's the whole curse. it's not bad luck. it's management moving the pasta.