Here’s a quick roundup of highly sophisticated thoughts on grocery store etiquette.
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Fix shopping carts, or use them to do crime? That is the question.
“A Huntington Beach man is part of the secret army of federal workers who check on goods that make up the Consumer Price Index.”
“If you are reading this anytime after dawn on Wednesday, you are probably too late to make a fashion statement and simultaneously keep the world safe from plastic bags. At 8 this morning, 15 Whole Foods stores in the New York area were to start selling $15 cotton bags by …
“Show New Yorkers a checkout line and they’ll tell you whether it’s worth the wait. Starbucks at 9 a.m.? Eight minutes, head to the next one down the street. Duane Reade at 6 p.m.? Twelve minutes, come back in the morning. But now a relative newcomer to Manhattan is trying …
“American supermarkets take notice! This is what a supermarket SHOULD look like! MPRIES is a family owned Austrian supermarket chain that employs up and coming architects to design the most amazing supermarkets I think I’ve ever seen. They use interesting materials, exciting and unique lighting, and each store has its …
Hey everyone, I made a little web site to help promote the release of my new book, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found. The book is basically the analog version of this site, featuring hundreds of hilarious discarded grocery lists (along with my even more hilarious commentary). Click …
“The Japanese are sentimental about their noodle soup – it’s the working-class food that nourished the nation in the bleak days after World War Two. Ramen chefs are TV celebs, in a country that devotes more broadcast time to cookery than even we do. I asked the young pilgrims just …
“I would think there are certain rules that apply to grocery shopping. Not doing it naked would be one of them. Stealing someone’s cart would be another.”
“Does this scenario sound at all familiar? You go haring off to the supermarket because ‘there’s nothing to eat’. You pile your trolley satisfyingly high — after all, who goes to the supermarket to buy three carrots and a carton of soup? You notice a couple of new lines — …