What LSS product display do you prefer?

I prefer collections together but I don't care if they are arranged by theme or manufacturer.

I want collections kept together for as long as possible. After that put it in themes, but still keep remaining collection items together and near paper.

The only scrap store I have available to me keeps collections together until newer releases come out. The papers go to the paper section, chipboard to the chipboard aisle, die cuts to die cuts. It makes me insane. I think and work in collections. I will rarely buy paper without coordinating embellishments to go with. So hunting through aisles of product is tiresome.

Mine keeps collections together, but separates by theme. There's a section of the store for winter and Christmas, one for weddings, one for pets, etc. Her Tim Holtz is all in one place, more colorful mixed media products close by but in a separate area. New collections are featured more prominently.

I am a theme scrapper. I like things organized by theme.

I worked in an LSS. They had most things organized by theme but things that did not fit a theme had the collection together like Chatterbox.

Stickers were all on one wall.

I'd be so happy to have an LSS to shop in I wouldn't care anymore. But I do like to find like things together when possible.

If I could choose:
I prefer to shop by theme. All the >> birthday, girls night out, outdoors, whatever category, etc... together.
My second preference is by product categories >> stickers together, cardstock together, patterned paper together, tools and adhesive together (like Hobby Lobby or Michaels is set up).
My least favorite way to shop is by company (all the Bo Bunny together, all the My Minds Eye together, etc...).

In general, if I am in a scrapbook store or scrapbook area of a craft store, I'm going down every aisle, area, section, etc..., and looking at every single thing, anyways....so arrangement doesn't matter.

All the scrapbook stores I've been in over the last 20+ years(in whatever city and state), the square footage has never been grandiose in size, so having to go all over the store to find what I wanted, was never an issue for me.

I regularly shop in stores (Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, HomeGoods, Sprouts, etc...) that have large square footage, and I often walk the whole store as a means to get in some extra walking. Having to go across the store in a small square footage scrapbook store is not an issue for me.

I haven't been in a real lss in a decade+, but when I lived near them (there were 3 close), i much preferred collections & manufacturers together.

One lss would separate each sheet of paper from a collection by color. So if a collection had a blue based paper, a red based paper, and a white based paper, you would never see them close to one another! That truly drove me nuts.

I prefer collections together. I dont scrapbook by theme. I match my photos to what paper they look good on and what they pop on. I like to get things that go together not mix matchy.