"gtr" > wrote in message news:2013122117565119535-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2013-12-21 23:44:11 +0000, Dave Smith said:
>
>> On 2013-12-21 6:02 PM, sf wrote:
>>
>>> I love shopping and go up & down almost every aisle. The areas I am
>>> rarely in are frozen food, pharmacy, cleaning products, drinks and
>>> snacks. The other aisles are a least walked down.
>>
>> I can't say that I like love shopping but I do it. I do most of the
>> cooking so I know what I need. I can't say that I avoid all the centre
>> isles because I shop in a number of different stores but usually only
>> one of the them per week for basic weekly shopping. Which one I go to
>> that week depends on what we need and which one has the best prices.
>> I am not as anal as my late brother in law, the engineer who had an
>> almost to scale map with a layout of the store and the items and
>> locations on each aisle. They keep changing and I can;'t keep track,
>> so I wander.
>>
>> Sometimes I need things that are only available at the most expensive
>> one. I don't usually bother with the one that sells the soft drinks
>> and snack foods. I skip the one with cleaning products because we order
>> ours online. The aisles with prepare foods.... I usually don't even
>> bother with. Most of my shopping is for meat, fish, dairy and produce,
>> so I can often do most of my shopping around the outside.
>
> One of the reasons we love "grocery shopping" is that we have so many
> large local supermarkets that cater to various ethnicities. The closest
> and easiest access supermarkets are Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese,
> Middle-Eastern, Mexican, Persian and Eastern-European (Actually I think
> Jon's is Armenian). We go to all of these with some regularity.
>
> We also have many smaller groceries that are hard-wired to Poland,
> Russia, India, Spain, Italy and Turkey. We're 30 miles from LA where we
> can find other obscurities; German, Swedish, Brazilian, or the greatest
> cheese store on the planet. But mostly we consider those a bit out of
> reach. These thirty miles can mean from 45 min. to 1.5 hours each way.
>
> We lolligag up and down every aisle pawing over every curiousity,
> trying to figure out what they are, how it's used, how it could be used
> instead and so forth. We often say we're the only one that think a fine
> ol' weekend evening's entertainment can be had more easily at the
> supermarket than at the local movie theaters.
>
> It's a lot of fun.

Sounds like you make it a good day out))
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