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I guess people have forgotten the world before supermarkets (the replacement for traditional 'grocery stores'). You could not buy a pineapple or a banana or an orange. It was impossible. What made it possible were the literal overthrow of governments by corporations that acted like pirates with a monopoly on a given crop, in combination with technical and logistical revolutions. It's also amazing to see supermarkets…
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Trader joes is basically just a larger version of the "grocery" aisle at a drug store wrapped up in some nice marketing. Hard pass.
Trader Joe's originated as a spin-off of the Rexall drugstore chain, so you're closer than you think.
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Opposite here: I dislike Trader Joe's. I call it "bougie safeway". Trader Joe's is great if you like boxed, prepared food, but it isn't much better for anything else. Their produce is meh and overly wrapped with packaging.
Agreed. But to be fair, I've yet to see somewhere with a better cheese selection.
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>Poor people have smartphones Some poor people have smartphones. I guess some will get to eat. Also while there is penatration of smartphones into poorer countries, it is hardly 100% >However, compared to other markets across the globe, India’s smartphone penetration rate is still relatively low. [1] [1] https://www.statista.com/topics/4600/smartphone-market-in-in...
> Some poor people have smartphones. I guess some will get to eat. I have no idea how you got from "smartphone apps will affect how people shop for food" to "anyone without a smartphone will be starved."
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Trader joes is basically just a larger version of the "grocery" aisle at a drug store wrapped up in some nice marketing. Hard pass.
I think of it as the place to get frozen Indian food and salad kits. Do drugstores have those?
UK supermarkets are crap, and have got noticeably crapper in recent years. At even large mid-tier supermarkets you will find a paltry range of fruit and veg, and a maeger selection of almost entirely prepackaged meat and fish. I have noticed many things are routinely out of stock and it can be a lottery shopping for a specific recipe. I recently visited Portugal, and in a small city supermarket there was a bakery, me…
UK supermarkets are far better in terms of fruit and veg selection than anything we have here in Germany. It can be much worse trust me. UK is also way cheaper
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If the app wasn't spyware, they wouldn't be so keen on getting me to use it instead of using a web page.
Nobody wants to use a grocery store web page on their phone, and nobody wants to use a computer instead of their phone.
> Today Americans spend a smaller share of their income on food to be cooked at home—about 6%—than people in almost any other rich country... Well then, where is that windfall going? Or do Americans not cook at home all that often?
I grew up in Montana so I am probably one of the few millennial Americans that probably recalls what life is like before supermarkets. They were just becoming a thing there as I was growing up. (Very, What's Eating Gilbert Grape.) We had an IGA in the small town I grew up in. The fresh food options there were borderline Soviet. We went to a butcher to get our meat when we didn't have meat from hunting. We got produce…
Why fuck raisins? Earnest question, I always just assumed taking a lot of the moisture out of a grape was bad enough for flavor
They’re garbage grapes. And they often add sugar, directly or indirectly. Dried wine grapes are delicious.
UK supermarkets are crap, and have got noticeably crapper in recent years. At even large mid-tier supermarkets you will find a paltry range of fruit and veg, and a maeger selection of almost entirely prepackaged meat and fish. I have noticed many things are routinely out of stock and it can be a lottery shopping for a specific recipe. I recently visited Portugal, and in a small city supermarket there was a bakery, me…