Every price map like this should serve as a reminder that competition works. You can see prices are lower in areas where there is competition for a particular product and higher where there isn't any competition.
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#142As someone from the Netherlands, I was surprised how expensive the local supermarkets in the US are (and also that they don't include taxes in the price labels). I still remember that over 10 years ago, one banana and one granola bar cost me over 10 dollar (nowadays it's probably a lot more). I almost cancelled the purchase at the checkout, but I didn't want to look like a cheapskate. The nearest K-mart would be 1.5…
That doesn't sound right. Bananas are generally the cheapest fruit in the US. Was this some sort of fancy energy bar? Were you in Hawaii or Alaska?
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
You really don’t want to go down this road. I have no problem starting a movement to get Americans to call them “LEGO’s” and you won’t be able to even suggest it’s wrong because it’ll just be a contraction of “LEGO parts,” “LEGO bricks,” and “LEGO sets.” (But feel free to lambast us over punctuation and quotation marks.)
That isn't how contractions in English work – you can't form a contraction from two nouns. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/con...
Quite right, what's needed here is a portmanteau - Legarts
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#145Do Americans find it difficult to slice their own mushrooms?
Wait until you see peeled mandarins in plastic containers.
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#146So...Will get my Navel Oranges in Whichita, will do a quick jump to Mount Pleasant for Kiwis and get me the Spaghetti in Farfield...A Python script retrieving current Airline rates and implementing Minimum Spanning Tree should help optimize next week's shopping...
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, this was more of a tongue in cheek response and not really directed at you or your project directly. For me Aldi is just such a european thing that I was genuinely surprised by this.
Don't forget there are two Aldi (Aldie?) the yellow South and the Blue North and they both have a different international footprint just to complicate things
there are even memes about this. Like this tactical map: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zacwvs/supermarket...
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Because it didn't occur to me that might be a possibility :-) is that what it would be?
It is a regular, but not universal, occurrence for people to elide the extra possessive 's when the word already ends in s. For example, although adding a possessive suffix 's to the nane "Jordan" would result in "Jordan's," adding it to "James" could result in "James'". There's an apostrophe written at the end, but it's pronounced the same way as "James." I said it's not universal because I still know people who wou…
James’ = AP style
James’s = Chicago Style
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#150Seeing that Washington granny smith apples are not the cheapest in Washington is pretty odd.