If You Had To Walk To The Supermarket.....

[EvaDK]

Ha ha! Bilka is still a thing? Some 40 years ago I had to endure Bilka with my parents during our summer trips to DK. And you go to Bilka Aalborg, amirite?

Oh yes, Bilka is very much still a thing here.

The Bilka close to Aarhus, not Aalborg. My pic from Frederikshavn probably fooled you there.
I trained and was stationed there when in the Danish Navy. I'm not from that area.

I take it you don't have to cross a fjeld or fjord to do your groceries?

 

[Farm Boy]

I think it depends, if they have fresh cucumbers and other produce every time you go, the prices are good, there's good deals on a regular basis and a good variety of food options.. if there's all that and a well trained staff and enough tills open at all times to make shopping a breeze.. If everything is logically laid out and easy to find.. If all the wheels on all the carts spin properly without making any weird sounds then yes, definitely.

I dunno. Just seems like every one of them is a bigger wonder of the world than any from antiquity.

The supply chain required to feed you the produce of the whole globe, on demand, is absurd.

 

[warpus]

I dunno. Just seems like every one of them is a bigger wonder of the world than any from antiquity.

The supply chain required to feed you the produce of the whole globe, on demand, is absurd.

Is it really that super when produce grown in central America is shipped to east Asia for processing and then shipped back to North America for distribution? It's all designed to maximize middleman profits, ignoring carbon footprint considerations. It would have been a lot more super for that produce grown in the Americas to be shipped for distribution a bit more directly. It is absurd, you are right.

 

[Farm Boy]

That's a take for sure.

I like canned food too. Almost never actually get shopping to buy fruit or fresh veg. Don't really see why, on a certain level, any of you all who are father from production fields, should have convenient access to them. <shrug>

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It would be nice if local produce could be found at more than a roadside Taber corn stand or from the Hutterites at the Farmers' Market. Besides which, the Farmers' Market closes for the season next weekend (it's open from Victoria Day weekend to Thanksgiving weekend). Much of the stuff at the local stores here is either from the U.S. or Asia.

If you want local, you have to grow it yourself - which is a bit hard for anyone who has nowhere to put a garden or if they live in an HOA type of situation or a municipality that actually forbids gardens (for "aesthetic" reasons due to "property values").

Having a garden used to be normal, even in the city. Now it's seen as "undermining the economy" and if you don't rip it out, the municipality will do it and bill you.

 

[really]

As it happens construction started on a new Lidl in the village nearest to me so I'll have another option. It isn't any closer than the existing supermarket.

 

[amadeus]

It's just that superman sets a very high standard for what is considered truly super.

Nietzsche?

 

[Zardnaar]

In the good old days pre supermarkets odds are the housewife might soend a good chunk of the day going to various places for shopping. Dad was working and the shops woukd often be closed outside his working day.

Meat, fish, booze, produce, and whatever else under one roof. We take it for granted now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

If you want "booze" here, you have to go to a liquor store.

My next trip to a grocery store will actually be to the pharmacy, to get a flu/covid shot. If there's enough time, I might do a little shopping while I'm there. It's not a place where I usually get groceries, it's just the nearest place that has a pharmacy. They tell you not to leave for 15 minutes in case you have a reaction to the shots.

I've had both at the same time before, and suffered nothing worse than a sore arm for a few days.

 

[Fippy]

Every supermarket has booze here..and often a lot.
They are not "hiding" it in a corner or so either, cannot be missed usually.

 

[lymond]

Every supermarket has booze here..and often a lot.
They are not "hiding" it in a corner or so either, cannot be missed usually.

Some states in the US, like Virginia, have Beverage Control and most alcoholic beverages are controlled at the state and even county/city levels. The hard stuff is sold in state-run shops with limited hours. Beer and wine, though, are sold in grocery, convenience, and specialty stores. Interestingly, some states have counties, especially in the South, that are called dry counties - the level of "dry" can differ from sales being completely prohibited or just beer and wine. Usually, in these counties, you can still go to another county to buy and bring it home.

 

[Fippy]

40% Whiskey etc can be bought at Aldi, Lidl and so on everywhere here..
feels wrong for sure. They are also selling Red Bull and all the energy drinks, i mean little kids already see all that when going shopping with their parents.

 

[Sarin]

40% Whiskey etc can be bought at Aldi, Lidl and so on everywhere here..
feels wrong for sure. They are also selling Red Bull and all the energy drinks, i mean little kids already see all that when going shopping with their parents.

Same here. You can basically buy alcohol at almost every place that sells food. Even bakeries and similar will sometimes offer beer, cider or something like Frisco among their cold beverages. Special mention goes to my local Kaufland (dunno if this is their standard layout) that has alcohol aisles placed right in front of checkouts in a layout that makes you unavoidably pass through.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There are some here who think energy drinks should be regulated (as in not sold to anyone under 18, which is legal age here in Alberta).

I don't get the appeal of them. I tried them waaay back, during a particularly busy typing marathon. They didn't help, so I went downstairs to the kitchen and had something to eat instead (I read that if you want to be a little more awake for awhile, eat meat).

 

[Fippy]

Well they are basically a marketing stunt..
it's like coffee + sugar.
Works for a short time and then deflates, unlike let's say mineral water that regulates better.
Bananas - nuts - eggs - chili are just a couple of examples that help much better against being tired.

 

[The_J]

Google maps says the next one here is 110m, or 1 minute walking. Had to look it up, because I never measured it .
The second closest 450m, or 7 min walk.

I think I've lived in the last 15 years not more than 5 min walking from a supermarket, but I think I was really, really lucky.

 

[Smellincoffee]

If you want "booze" here, you have to go to a liquor store.

My next trip to a grocery store will actually be to the pharmacy, to get a flu/covid shot. If there's enough time, I might do a little shopping while I'm there. It's not a place where I usually get groceries, it's just the nearest place that has a pharmacy. They tell you not to leave for 15 minutes in case you have a reaction to the shots.

I've had both at the same time before, and suffered nothing worse than a sore arm for a few days.

Every supermarket has booze here..and often a lot.
They are not "hiding" it in a corner or so either, cannot be missed usually.

In my part of the United States, grocery stores are permitted to sell beer & wine, but not liquor itself: for gin, whisky, rum, vodka, etc have to be acquired through a liquor or "package" store.

 

[Zardnaar]

Cant get spirits here from supermarket. Beer, wine, cider.

 

[warpus]

Nietzsche?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Nietzsche's ubermensch is not somebody who can pick up trucks and travel back in time but rather someone who embraces the crappy parts of life such as the risk of writing an unpopular post.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

They tell you not to leave for 15 minutes in case you have a reaction to the shots

That's how I heard Betty White died. I was waiting the 15 minutes after my booster and one of the pharmacists reacted.