Yes...these pumped up convenience stores are becoming popular everywhere...
What produce they sell is either highly overpriced, poor if not zero selection, and dubious quality.
I cannot in good faith call them general stores ...that is a slander to them.
But many peoples the world over are having a harder and harder time getting proper services to areas ...especially in dense urban areas...
Here asking for a supermarket would have given you any number of answers...do you want a proper grocery store? Which may be small...or a super - market ...a big grocery store...or a big box behemoth grocery store.
You would have gotten many store brand names as answer...but it wouldn't help unless you had a frame of reference for your desire or needs.
Do you want to go shopping for all your possible needs? Do you care what giant nightmare you walk into? Or do you have a saturation point concerning consumerism and the glorification of it. And are more than content shopping at more modestly sized businesses.
There are apparently countries with a 100-153 kg per person per year meat consumption.
That's nearly half a kilo of meat a day each, including toddlers.
Every day!!!
Can you imagine munching so much meat?
As a family of four, we go through about 2 kg of meat per week.
That's half a kilo each. Per week, not per day.
And I considered it too much. There is really no need to have meat every day.
Clearly I was wrong.
All one has to do is look to the USA to see the social mess of having unregulated alcohol available for sale in any possible store ...at as low a price as they can sell it..
This is not universally true in the US. The 21st Amendment to the Constitution reserved regulation of alcoholic beverages to the states. And this is also not universally true, the federal government withholds highway funding from states that have drinking ages lower than 21.
So you have 50+ different regulatory environments for alcohol here. The closest grocery store to me is actually in Missouri, where all manner of booze can be bought in grocery stores, discount stores (e.g. Target) specialty liquor stores, drug stores, gas stations, etc. The second closest grocery store is in Kansas, where alcoholic beverages stronger than 3.2% alcohol can only be sold by licensed liquor stores, which themselves are limited in what else they can sell -- like no olives, kosher salt or maraschino cherries, cause those things are food!
Also in Kansas, our taxes on liquor are considerably higher than across the state line, and it is an unenforced law that it is illegal to avoid this "sin tax" by importing alcohol from one state to another. A "sin tax" error, if you will. (vis "Smokey and the Bandit") Also, no alcohol sales are allowed in Kansas on Sunday except where the state law is overridden by municipalities. And definitely not on Christmas or Easter, because give Jesus a break and turn your own damn water into wine those days!
But there are similarly weird things elsewhere. Last time I visited New Mexico, there were only drive-thru liquor stores, many with makeshift roadside shrines down the road a way
In Pennsylvania (and some other states) the liquor stores are all state owned, and you pay the same for Mogen David* everywhere.
Puerto Rico is the only US territory I know of that refused the federal drinking age bargain, and there drinking age is 18, IIRC from the last time I visited.
(*Not to confused with the Mogen Circumciser. "The parents pay the mohel and the rabbi keeps the tip.")
Holly balubodo Macintosh.... What’s going on in this thread?
Well, Dave, we're counting down our days (on a per-country basis) until our early demises by Colon cancer due to all that meat and cirrhosis from all that booze.
Well, Dave, we're counting down our days (on a per-country basis) until our early demises by Colon cancer due to all that meat and cirrhosis from all that booze.
Hope not. But who knows?
Beer will not be allowed year xxxx. Year 3000 it will be gone like the mammoth. Most lilkey due to water prices will be insane. And before that. Possibly some insurance reasons.
As a family of four, we go through about 2 kg of meat per week.
That's half a kilo each. Per week, not per day.
And I considered it too much. There is really no need to have meat every day.
Clearly I was wrong.
About the same amount our family uses weekly, and even of that ~2kg most is chicken & fish which is not even counted as "proper meat" by da meatophiles... I think that map is about red meat, right?
