The Kroger-based store where I live just botched a floor-plan change so badly I should hope that it was just a local screw-up. This particular grocery store went from okay to "penny-thriftstore" useless.
Kroger is the primary grocery store in my neighborhood and I shop there at least once a week. Despite that, I can never quite grok the store layout. It feels like it's been designed to make it impossible to find the last three items on your list so that you will roam the store endlessly picking up random impulse items while hunting your white whale condiment.
This makes me wonder, has anyone used the Walmart "drive-up" shopping system where you shop online, drive to a specified location and they load your groceries after you pay?
Almost all ALDI and Lidl stores have a nearly idendical floor-plan, at least when they have their own buildings and are not located in a mall or railway station. This usually makes shopping there a straight forward thing.