How nosy are people in your supermarket?
Posted by NLveganmama on May 15, 2010 · Member since Jan 2010 · 380 posts
Do you find that people are always looking in each other's carts to see what they find? I think it's one of the reaons the Dutch shop so frequently is to give them the chance to look in other people's carts.
That's okay. We're picturing you navigating around the aisles in one of these:
http://www.goldenstateimages.com/sql_images/lib/SPV/SPV-006d.jpg
haha what the hell? : ) That's a tram!
haha what the hell? : ) That's a tram!
It's amazing that we can communicate at all. ::) ;D
shopping cart. 'cause it's a cart... used for shopping.
In certain parts of the south, it's also known as a "buggy."
echoing veggydog's statement up there...
you're doing my head in! : )
to me, this is a buggy:
http://www.nurseryworldonline.co.uk/images/Babyjogger%20black.jpg
Hehe. We call that a buggy too...or more commonly a stroller.
my (english) dad always calls boxes of strawberries "punnetts". I think it's so weird. to me a punnett is a device used to torture biology students.
my (english) dad always calls boxes of strawberries "punnetts". I think it's so weird. to me a punnett is a device used to torture biology students.
punnet sounds right to me...
i'm judging you.
yeah I'm totally with oww on this one. You US people are complete freaks
are you all doing doing your shopping with one of these:
http://www.laneranch.net/images/wagon%20shoot%2012%2019%202001040.jpg
do you pull them round yourselves?
Shell, pile that high with junkfood and dead creatures and you have the SAD shopping experience!! :-D
To most Americans a "trolley" is a tram.
"Ding ding ding went the tram" just doesn't sound the same, does it.
But then in France, a shopping trolley/cart/buggy is a "caddy." Which, as we all know, is the obnoxious teenage boy who carries rich men's golf clubs at a US country club. I wouldn't trust one of those to hold my shopping, veg*n or not.
On French websites they have a link marked "Caddy". I think it's cute.
yeah I'm totally with oww on this one. You US people are complete freaks
are you all doing doing your shopping with one of these:
http://www.laneranch.net/images/wagon%20shoot%2012%2019%202001040.jpg
do you pull them round yourselves?
there is a semblance! look!
http://www.tiesilike.com/files/2303751/uploaded/shopping-cart.jpg
see, wheels, basket... except noooo, we push it, not pull... unless your an impatient kid who wants their mom to go to the cereal section already.
some other website calls it a 'shopping basket,' but that to me was always the small hand-held baskets.
On a side note, I haven't seen a cart in the US that small since I was a kid. Now supermarket carts are the size of my tiny car.
On a side note, I haven't seen a cart in the US that small since I was a kid. Now supermarket carts are the size of my tiny car.
It is funny how the size of carts have grown. My local HFS has these tiny carts that my purse barely fits in, but most of the stores around here have huge ones. I know when I worked retail they upsized the carts frequently. I guess if all you buy is processed garbage, frozen food, canned trash, and meat, you can get away with shopping infrequently. Many of my customers shopped monthly. I could never do that. My food doesn't keep that long.
I went grocery shopping with a stereotypical midwestern friend once. I spent quite a bit of time in produce and was ready to go. She wanted to know when I was going to go get my groceries. This confused me until I realized that to her fruit/veggies are just side dishes. She couldn't figure out what I was going to eat.
On a side note, I haven't seen a cart in the US that small since I was a kid. Now supermarket carts are the size of my tiny car.
It is funny how the size of carts have grown. My local HFS has these tiny carts that my purse barely fits in, but most of the stores around here have huge ones. I know when I worked retail they upsized the carts frequently. I guess if all you buy is processed garbage, frozen food, canned trash, and meat, you can get away with shopping infrequently. Many of my customers shopped monthly. I could never do that. My food doesn't keep that long.
I went grocery shopping with a stereotypical midwestern friend once. I spent quite a bit of time in produce and was ready to go. She wanted to know when I was going to go get my groceries. This confused me until I realized that to her fruit/veggies are just side dishes. She couldn't figure out what I was going to eat.
I know! My hfs has really small carts too...and I don't even use one! I always just use a basket. Then I go across the street to Publix and I feel like I could probably sit my whole body down in a cart.
For serious. Every store around here has gotten HUGE carts within the last month.
Even scarier was the size of Walmart carts. Eeeek. They might just be as big or bigger than my bathtub.
Yeah the trolleys here are huuuuggggee compared to the UK. AND they don't steer properly. I'm used to all four wheels being able to turn, but here only the front wheels turn. I don't like it.
Many of my customers shopped monthly. I could never do that. My food doesn't keep that long.
I went grocery shopping with a stereotypical midwestern friend once. I spent quite a bit of time in produce and was ready to go. She wanted to know when I was going to go get my groceries. This confused me until I realized that to her fruit/veggies are just side dishes. She couldn't figure out what I was going to eat.
I do a 2 weekly shop for tinned / frozen stuff and flour, sugar, beans and stuff that can keep. But with fruit and veggies I go once a week to the local veggie market.
That's so funny about your friend!!
Totally with oww and Shell on the trolleys/trams/punnets thing!!!!
Shell, the wheels turning badly is on purpose. Seriously. The store makes the trolleycart tend to one side or the other to get you to go that way.. since for some it's easier just to go where it leads them, and "that way" is usually toward the expensive-for-the-content junkfoods. I read about this somewhere once, either a newspaper or on the Net site of a newspaper. Tesco is one of the worst offenders at trying to programme people to buy crap. And it seems to work.
I'm in Berlin. The bio bio brand soy-rice drink is 89 cents per liter and the soymilk is 99 cents per liter. They aren't fortified though :-/
89 cents a liter is cheap by Dutch standards! Next time I'm in Germany for the day I should have a look and stock up on a few of them if I'm there anyway.
The trolleys in Holland are sometimes designed with this lock on one of the front wheels, so you can't take it further than the parking lot. They usually don't steer well as a result.
Janel
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