This Is Just Wrong

by tgirsch

January 30th, 2007

On a number of levels:

Click for larger image. Taken at my neighborhood supermarket.

Categories: Doggie Bloggin', Pets |

16 Comments

SayUncle January 30th, 2007
the pic doesn’t enlarge.
tgirsch January 30th, 2007
Try again.
Stormy Dragon January 30th, 2007
Well SOMETHING has to be next to the antifreeze.
Paul Tomblin January 30th, 2007
You don’t want your poor pet to freeze, do you?
Kevin January 30th, 2007
Hah! I knew you liked the cats better!
Dan M. January 30th, 2007
Excuse my pedantry, but how is this wrong on multiple levels?
tgirsch January 30th, 2007
Dan M:

Organizationally, it doesn’t make much sense to me to put dog food and automotive products on the same aisle. Further, if viewed in columnar fashion, the automotive products encroach on the “territory” of the dog products. Further still, the particular automotive product they put there is known not only to be poisonous to dogs, but especially dangerous because it happens to taste very good to them, making them all the more likely to actually consume the stuff. Finally, despite widespread warnings that you should keep hazardous stuff out of the reach of children (never mind pets), they put it on the bottom shelf.

Is that enough levels for you?
Dan M. January 31st, 2007
Say! I’ve just been beaten over the head with my own pendantry! Thanks!
SayUncle » Product Placement January 31st, 2007
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Kevin T. Keith January 31st, 2007
Organizationally, it doesn’t make much sense to me to put dog food and automotive products on the same aisle.

They’re both “stuff not for human consumption”.

Further, if viewed in columnar fashion, the automotive products encroach on the “territory” of the dog products.

That’s not how they do it.

Further still, the particular automotive product they put there is known not only to be poisonous to dogs, but especially dangerous because it happens to taste very good to them, making them all the more likely to actually consume the stuff.

Your point?

Finally, despite widespread warnings that you should keep hazardous stuff out of the reach of children (never mind pets), they put it on the bottom shelf.

I really don’t think these last two matter that much. I think it’s understood that (a) noone/nothing is going to consume the stuff in the store, and (b) the ones it’s dangerous to are not going to be the ones purchasing it.

Besides, domestication is bad for animals. We’re doing them a favor by upping the Darwinian ante just a little bit.
Chris January 31st, 2007
Would this, perhaps, be Schnuck’s on Perkins near Poplar?
Gunstar1 January 31st, 2007
They’re both “stuff not for human consumption”.
Though I have not done it myself, dog food and cat food are safe for human consumption. Antifreeze is not safe for anything to consume, like drain cleaner.

Further, if viewed in columnar fashion, the automotive products encroach on the “territory” of the dog products.

That’s not how they do it.
Maybe where you live, it was a very important thing when I worked at a grocery store. Actually the manager was quite anal about keeping items in their own column and row.

Your point?
Don’t put things safe for consumption near items that are not. A leak from the anti-freeze could contaminate the food.

I really don’t think these last two matter that much. I think it’s understood that (a) noone/nothing is going to consume the stuff in the store, and (b) the ones it’s dangerous to are not going to be the ones purchasing it.

Besides, domestication is bad for animals. We’re doing them a favor by upping the Darwinian ante just a little bit.

I hope I am misreading this last part in that you do not wish animals to suffer and die (or were making a Kerry kind of non-joke). However if you think living a long and mostly injury and disease free life (shelter and vet care) is bad and letting them live in the wild with half of the life expectancy of a domesticated animal… you have been reading too much PETA mis-information.
tgirsch January 31st, 2007
Chris:

Nope. Cooper’s (independent, family-owned) on Quince near Perkins.

KTK:

Calm down, dude, it’s a joke.

They’re both “stuff not for human consumption”.

So are adult diapers, and yet those manage to be in a different aisle. Or the cleaning products. Or the light bulbs. Or the shampoo and soap.

Besides, domestication is bad for animals.

Not necessarily. Watch the Nova on “Dogs and More Dogs,” and you’ll see that a new theory is gaining more support that domesication evolved in dogs more organically than previously expected. In a sense, certain animals “chose” domestication as a survival tactic, and this has served them quite well.

Gunstar1:

Speaking of “calm down…”
tgirsch January 31st, 2007
I just had a vision of KTK spending six or seven paragraphs analyzing just why the chicken crossed the road, and, indeed, what she was doing off the farm in the first place.
Dan M. February 1st, 2007
And then somebody saying that “off the farm” is too reminiscent of “off the plantation”, and that it’s all about racism.