Supermarket Product Swaps

As I drift around the supermarket, there are a few items out of place. Someone picked it up, saw something else they wanted, and realised they couldn't have both of them. Sometimes it's obvious - they left a similar product, because the other was on special offer. But every now and then, there are substitutions that make me wonder...

• Hello Kitty Toy for Beer - You don't usually think of beer drinkers as dedicated Hello Kitty fans (mostly because Hello Kitty fans tend to be too young to buy beer), but apparently, this one was. Not such a dedicated fan that they placed the toy above the beer special offer, but there's always another day for buying Hello Kitty.
• Bacon for Bread - The ultimate dilemma for fans of bacon sandwiches. If you can only have one part of the sandwich, what's more important... the bacon or the bread? Personally, I'd go for the bacon, even though this person went for the bread.
• Brussels Sprouts for a Giant Lindor Truffle - I can see this one. They don't like sprouts anyway, so might as well spend their last cash on chocolate. (The truffle is a lie however... it's a large plastic round thing filled with little truffles, not the mega truffle it looks like from the wrapping. I want a real giant truffle, so I can eat the filling with a spoon. And then I want a lot of space to run off the sugar rush. Lots and lots of space.)
• Potted Plant for Toilet Roll - Maybe they planned to grow the plant up, harvest the stems, pulp them and turn them into toilet roll. But then they saw the toilet roll and thought, "What was I thinking? I'll buy the ready-made stuff.... it has a puppy on the packet."

The customers aren't the only ones to blame. The shop decided to shelf mini marshmallows, to go in hot drinks, in the detergent aisle. The sweets or the hot drinks sections would have been too obvious. And it's one of the mysteries of the universe why shops think putting poisonous cut flowers next to vegetables is a good idea. You'd think edibility would trump being planty.

But the difference is those corporate decision makers aren't in the shop with me. When it's my fellow customers, there's always the chance that one day, I'll catch them at it and the mystery will be solved.