【海外の反応】アメリカのスーパーで「誰も買ってるの見たことない謎商品」が闇深すぎたwww

I see canned pork brains in milk gravy on the shelves, but have never seen anyone buy any.

You know those Big Azz microwaveable cheeseburgers they have in the deli cooler at convenience stores? I run the register 8 hours a day but only ever see 1 person buy them. This man is single-handedly keeping the product on our shelf with his diet.

Egg nog in a can any time of year that’s not Christmas. In 30 years in that supermarket only one person bought it and said they needed it for French toast.

Granny candy always needed restocking, but I never saw anyone buy them. I swear there's witchcraft involved.

That canned spray cheese. Apparently it's really popular but I've never seen anyone buy it and I don't know anyone who eats it.

Maybe it's just because people in and in the next door states to Wisconsin generally prefer real dairy

The opposite of what you are asking, but I grew up in a very non diverse area. The number of times I had to show people where the Mexican Jesus candles were was ridiculous.

I worked every department at a grocery store, and all I can tell you is that every product has at least one buyer. You just need one customer who's willing to buy the entire shelf if you ever threaten to stop carrying their one thing. The problem I've seen is with head office not understanding their market and forcing stores to carry industry best sellers at every location. You might think sugary cereal sells fast, but wait 'til you work in an area populated by mostly overseas migrants, they will not touch that stuff with a ten foot pole, and cereal has a surprisingly short "best before" lifespan.

I can't think of anything specific, but my literal job is to recommend the best moving products per category out of my company's distribution warehouse.

The stubbornness I run into when I suggest they replace the dusty products on the bottom shelf with something proven to sell is mind boggling.

My data is dated. I was the IT manager for the automated store ordering system. Things that don't sell but stay on the shelf:
Pots, Pans, and appliances. After1 year of no store orders or sales the pricing system drops the item. Every year I would have a meeting with auditors about "why was there no price on this 23 inch pan?". Like clockwork.

Other things that don't sell well but do sell. Over the counter drugs, same auditors would ask me why we had a years worth of Tylenol. Usually because the store manager extended the number of facings, or ordered himself.

Each category manager is very jealous of the amount of shelf space they have and will fill it, even if the item does not sell. I never won the battle with them about re-allocating shelf space for a category unless there was a catastrophic drop in sales. Thus the pans, and Tylenol being on the shelf, when there was not really any need.

I eventually figured out that there is a level of shenanigans with the category managers and the suppliers. I am certain there were bribes to put things is stores that clearly were not selling. Suppliers would also be adamant about an assortment even if I had the data to prove them wrong. Thus high end cheese and yogurt in poor neighborhoods.

Things that did, do drop in sales over time:
Tabacco…less sales every year.
Milk less and less
Cereal less and less

Also large store size does not really work anymore, they could do with about 1/3 less space. The larger traditional grocery stores that is.

(Edit spelling of tobacco)

We used to put away the stock people left at registers at night time and if there was a new kid we'd always go find a can of cow tongues and put it in the basket to freak them out.