If supermarkets have a defined science/art as to where products are located, why are they all different?

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My experience from Tesco, Sainsburys, ASDA, Waitrose and M&S show that in every single store the format is always different. Either completely mirrored, flipped on itself, some products coupled with others in a different way, and freezer/fridge aisles sometimes together sometimes apart, sometimes by the entrance, sometimes in the middle. Why is that if there are now defined principles in what you should place where, and even if each company believed in different principles, why doesnt each company at least standardise their own stores?

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They are the same in a general manner, such as produce to one end, dairy in the back of the store, dry and canned goods in center aisles. The specifics are due to size/ space constraints and other factors of the building.

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