Why are people constantly planted directly at the one place I want to go to in a store?

Time and time again, I'll enter a virtually empty store and the ONE PLACE I need to go, there will be someone right there. Whether it's an employee or a customer, it doesn't matter, they just happen to be at the exact spot my item is at.

For instance, I’ll go into an empty CVS to buy band aids and the only person I see, who is an employee, is standing right there, at the only place in the store I need to go, stocking the shelf. I'm not going to list more examples because they're all the same scenario. I know this is all on purpose, but I need to know why it's happening.

Does it simply have to do with me looking at them/giving them attention/light from my eyes in order to gain points to be able to buy the things I’m there for? Are they projected there to fuck with me/agitate me? Am I just being trolled? Is an audience watching and they want to see how I'll handle it? Are they just trying to get energy from me - the anger I'll feel when I have to encounter them? Are they acting as a camera? Am I acting as a camera and someone else wants to see whoever I’m looking at? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE REASON?