Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets

3 comments

• hadlock4 minutes ago
  I was surprised when I went for an extended visit to Colombia - outside of beef cuts (an entire rack of ribs, bit butcher cuts, not a single steak or a dozen hamburger patties) frozen foods are virtually non-existant. If you wander into any American supermarket or costco roughly 20% of the floor space is reserved for frozen foods. Something as ubiquitous as the bachelor frozen pizza just doesn't exist in their super markets, despite being the same size and ~roughly the same dry goods/shelf goods.
• eden_hazard14 minutes ago
  I thought I was alone in doing that and the writer felt the said. I love going to markets in places i travel to and seeing the different types of snacks they have. Often times I do walk in for toothpaste but then wander all around the store.
• Animats30 minutes ago
  Three pictures from Getty Images and generic copy. Was this assembled by an AI?<p>An instagrammer visiting a konbini in Kyoto would be far more interesting.<p>(If you want that experience in coastal California, visit a Nijiya Market.)
  • graypegg8 minutes ago
    &gt; Three pictures from Getty Images<p>And written in the first person, about the author&#x27;s trip to Japan and Greece...? Maybe there&#x27;s some licensing issue with using their own photos but it&#x27;s very funny to pair the sentence:<p><pre><code> &gt; in a Tokyo 7-Eleven, and I am standing shoulder to shoulder with a dozen tourists, all clutching baskets loaded with the same things: fluffy egg mayo sandwiches, katsu curry buns, matcha Kit Kats and warm cans of Boss coffee pulled from heated shelves. </code></pre> with a photo of someone standing in an empty supermarket, with no basket, buying tofu from a chilled shelf.
  • gruez25 minutes ago
    &gt;Three pictures from Getty Images and generic copy. Was this assembled by an AI?<p>Back in the day it would just be called a &quot;slow news day&quot;