Specifically at grocery stores.
This weekend I was grocery shopping, and it occurred to me whilst attempting to find the one or two whole bean offerings amid the sea of pre-ground coffee and k-cups that I haven’t seen coffee grinders in a grocery store in years. It feels like, growing up through the 90s and early aughts, most stores would have at least a few options to grind fresh, or at least the Bakers near my home did. However, at some point, they were seemingly removed everywhere.
Of course, my intuition tells me that it benefits stores to not have such specialized machinery in place so as to allow maximum flexibility with store layout, but I’m curious if anyone has an inside scoop.
Maybe you’re right. I assume whatever is online is generally what you’d see in the store if you went there.
However since pandemic I mostly stopped going to physical stores, except the grocery, so I guess I wouldn’t know. At the time it was the smart option but now it’s the convenient option…… while we all hate on Amazon, you can’t beat that same day delivery! Sometimes it can be faster to order online than to drive to a store