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

[Narz]

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.

It's awful and amazing.

Half of supermarket wares hardly even food but still the abundance is a marvel

 

[Arwon]

Alcohol can be sold in supermarkets here, but the two big supermarket chains don't do it.

The reason is there's restrictions preventing alcohol in grocery stores in the rest of the country and the big two companies have standardised labour, stock, branding and layout practices that don't allow for managing the sale of alcohol in their stores.

So only Aldi and the small independent chains actually sell alcohol here. The big chains just run a line of separately branded bottle shops.

 

[Zardnaar]

Alcohol can be sold in supermarkets here, but the two big supermarket chains don't do it.

The reason is there's restrictions preventing alcohol in grocery stores in the rest of the country and the big two companies have standardised labour, stock, branding and layout practices that don't allow for managing the sale of alcohol in their stores.

So only Aldi and the small independent chains actually sell alcohol here. The big chains just run a line of separately branded bottle shops.

They'd both here. They keep getting pinged for violating liquor licensing.

They're starting to crack down on high % large cheap single cans of beer. But high alcohol craft beer is fine.

Classism lol.

 

[stfoskey12]

In Oklahoma you couldn't sell any alcohol with more than 3.2% alcohol content in regular grocery stores until 2018. Now you can buy almost any beer and wine in grocery stores, but liquor is still restricted to liquor stores. This change happened because of a state question (where the policy is put up to voters in a general election).

 

[EvaDK]

Pretty much all supermarkets here have an alcohol section. The bigger the store, the wider the selection. Beer, wine, liquor, lots of brands from around the world. Beer from smaller unique breweries are popular atm. In some social gatherings, you may be considered 'primitive' if you show up with the most known brands, like Carlsberg, Tuborg and Heineken

 

[Farm Boy]

Are they fun social gatherings?