Nooo! Why do they do this....

When we moved here, the first food store we happened to shop in was a Safeway. The food stores are here... how can I describe them.... HUGE! compared to a regular sized Swedish food store.

It took months before we had figured it out and actually could say we had a small idea on where things were in this store.

When we moved a year later to a new city, we were almost devastated to find out that there was no Safeway close by and we had to start all over again (with an Albertsons). But to our joy a new Safeway opened shortly after and even though it wasn't the closest store, we kept going there (we were driving anyway and by car it was just a couple or more minutes) so we could walk our little "shopping walk" around the store to pick up our regular items. Since these chain stores look the same inside it's really easy to find stuff, even though the stores are miles away from each other. Very practical.

Yesterday I took advantage of people watching SuperBowl to do some quick food shopping in an empty store.

And I discovered that they are rebuilding the store!!

It's six years old!

Everything has been moved around and I and the few other shoppers walked around completely lost. It took me 15 minutes to located the coffee (as I said, these stores are huge). The pharmacist who had no clients this SuperBowl Sunday, shouted out directions to by passers...

From what I could see in the rebuilding mess, it's going to turn out beautiful with hardwood floors, wider aisles etc.

But WHY did they have to move stuff around!? It's hard enough to figure out the English names for everything we need...

Oh, well. At least now I know where the coffee is.