Indeed....2019 is not the dark ages. Even when I went camping in the wilds of Scotland 45 years ago my personal lav paper had perforations.
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At least there's always Philadelphia!
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At least there's always Philadelphia!
Ubiquitous like dulce de leche!
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Philadelphia?
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Philadelphia?
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My wife spent yesterday in Buenos Aires with her pal. Among the shopping items she brought back was a 250ml bottle of Canadian Maple Syrup which cost a whopping 570 pesos!!!
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....and the F+F already ranting about how unethical it is to do this, also to freeze the petrol prices.......how can anybody live with such a split personality????
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....and the F+F already ranting about how unethical it is to do this, also to freeze the petrol prices.......how can anybody live with such a split personality????
You have to ask?
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Maybe that explains all the torn bags lying around the produce department? From now on, I’ll be watching people take out their aggression on the hapless plastic bags.
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Yep. @fmools, I’m practicing @JAN’s zipper pull technique.
The bags are onionskin thin -
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Maybe that explains all the torn bags lying around the produce department? From now on, I’ll be watching people take out their aggression on the hapless plastic bags.
Clearly, a byproduct of rage
And talking about plastic bags: I shop for vegetables in a small shop run by a Peruvian family. I have been trying to convince them to reduce the use of plastic bags going there with my reusable shopping bags and asking to please put stuff in bulk in the bag, because I am going to throw away the bags when I get home anyway. They seem to have a hard time grasping this. The first 2-3 produces they can put them in bulk in the bag, but then it is like a reflex: they catch the plastic bag roll and take one bag asking '¿Qué más?'. I was thinking it would do them a favor using less bags, but they seem to have the same business sense as Argentines.
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Old habits die hard.
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Jan's light handed approach for ripping a bag from the roll worked for me only once...the other day in Vea I was forced to go back to using brute force to get them off.
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UK Man ...
Was in VEA for the first time ever in Barracas.....just wanted to check it out.
That branch really dreadful and expensive.....never gonna go there again.....more expensive than both COTO and CARREFOUR.
I guess you shop at VEA because you don't have many large chains by you, or?
When you rip of the bags, do you make a loud grunt or scream at the same time????
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UK Man ...
Was in VEA for the first time ever in Barracas.....just wanted to check it out.
That branch really dreadful and expensive.....never gonna go there again.....more expensive than both COTO and CARREFOUR.
I guess you shop at VEA because you don't have many large chains by you, or?
When you rip of the bags, do you make a loud grunt or scream at the same time????
It's actually quite a nice store. It's large, modern,clean with room to push your trolley about. It also has an escalator with an underground car park which on normal shopping days is rarely busy. Despite the manager being a bit of a twit the female staff all know us and are very friendly. It wouldn't look out of place in the UK to be honest. Problem is of course the prices, they're ridiculously high for the quality of the goods on sale.
As for the return of the bag ripping....after what I said before I just shook my head and laughed.
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Your supermarket sounds much nicer than anything I’ve found in Palermo except Jumbo, which is quite a hike from us. We’re halfway between two Coto stores, one small & crowded, one large and disorganized. Both present a grim experience. Closer is the Vea, formerly Disco, with wilted produce, dripping meats and very little selection of non perishables. A bit farther than all of those is a Disco, where we never seem able to find the items they advertise on special.
Our shopping strategy has evolved to avoiding the big stores at all costs. For milk if necessary, but essentially nothing else. Wine from small wine stores, bread from bakeries, fruit & vegetables from our multiple verdulerías, and cheeses & fish from the Saturday market.
We do a lot of running around for everything, but the stress & frustration is far less than facing supermarkets.
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It's not bad most times but was bedlam when they had the 50% off day. When we saw no parking spaces available we left and went back later. Their veg leaves a lot to be desired though.
The only supermarket we use in Buenos Aires is the Disco one block from Santa Fe as it's around the corner from the flat in Uruguay. The selection is far greater and definitively a notch above anything we have here although there's not a lot of room to wander and browse.
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Our shopping strategy has evolved to avoiding the big stores at all costs. For milk if necessary, but essentially nothing else. Wine from small wine stores, bread from bakeries, fruit & vegetables from our multiple verdulerías, and cheeses & fish from the Saturday market.
This is alike to ours. Basically, we go to large supermarkets either because we are looking for something specific on sale (something heavy or in large quantity) or to buy the only things we buy there: beer and cleaning products.
I haven't been buying fresh produces in supermarkets for ages - it is more expensive and of lower quality, and people touch everything with their bare hands.
I have learned to keep an eye on Farmacity/Simplicity for tissues and toilet paper, plus toothbrushes. When there are 2x1 offers, there are some real deal (most deals are inflated prices anyway). We don't have much storage at home, otherwise we would be buying a lot more in bulk whenever there is something on offer.
Yesterday, we stopped at the big Carrefour-Sodimac in Vicente López on our way back to Capital.
In the fish section, there was fish into an ice-made display. And kids were using plastic bags from the fruit section to touch the ice border AND THE SALMON FILLET INSIDE. They found fun to touch something very cold and squishy. There was no supermarket clerk to supervise the area, and the kids' parents were nowhere to be seen.
Ewwww!
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On Friday I dashed over to Jumbo in Punta Chica (San Fernando) because I'd heard on the grape vine that Welsh cheddar had been spotted and I bought one. But damn, was it expensive!
$340 for 150g, but heck does it taste good with real bite, as you would expect from a mature cheddar.
That particular Jumbo is probably the most upmarket supermarket I've ever been to in BA and it was spotless, with automated checkouts. However, you still have to input the card security number, the last four digits of the card and your DNI, which kind of defeats the object really.
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