Perhaps this is a commonly realized thing to those who buy hotdogs enough to notice the tomfoolery occurring. But, it is new to me.

I was craving hotdogs today, so I took a little drive down to the grocer to buy me some wieners and buns. I find the wieners sitting among the sliced ham, turkey, and others. Then, I had to scour the whole store for the buns, eventually finding them way on the other side of the store. Why Vons? I had a flashback to a factoid stating why costco sells their delicious rotisserie chicken at a loss. This combo of qualities makes it a sought after item. So costco strategically places it at the very back of the store to capitalize on human whimsiness by forcing them through hundreds of feet of thick temptation before reaching the rotisserie chicken. Samples here, samples there. You visit a sample-stand innocently sitting at a junction, then you spot another sample stand somewhere deeper. You zigzag through all these temptations before finally making it to the chicken… with a gluttonous cart.

Vons employs the same strategy I suspect. Wieners without buns is sacrilege, Vons exploits a core tenet of humanity to make more money. Greedy bastards. Even only imagining the convoluted maze-like path one must navigate to acquire the components for a burger dizzies me. Not to mention how the number of wieners per pack doesn’t match number of buns oer pack. Despite their mind games, I stood strong with conviction and exited the store with nothing more than wieners and buns (and bananas and a drink).