One other thing I've seen is stores using shorter shelves. Forget which store it was, but I remember a particular shelf always being taller than me, then one day it wasn't.
They straight up remove the top level shelf in one aisle. Just took the whole damn thing down one notch and hoped no one noticed. And this is in a metropolitan area that's pretty thoroughly insulated against the economic turbulence the rest of the country experiences, so I can only imagine how bad shit is in normal Podunk USA.
One other thing I've seen is stores using shorter shelves. Forget which store it was, but I remember a particular shelf always being taller than me, then one day it wasn't.
They straight up remove the top level shelf in one aisle. Just took the whole damn thing down one notch and hoped no one noticed. And this is in a metropolitan area that's pretty thoroughly insulated against the economic turbulence the rest of the country experiences, so I can only imagine how bad shit is in normal Podunk USA.