Local food vs. Supermarkets 176White flight? We shopped more often - had a small shop (2 in fact) a couple of minutes from the house; and ate less. Milk was delivered; so were bread and, in our...
Following up to Jane Gillett
No, I wasn't talking about people doing that. Isn't that over now anyway? The old "white flight" thing, many young people now want to live in city centres, rather than suburbs or the country.
Local food vs. Supermarkets 177Enrico C The Beeb (along with parts of the government) seem to run a crusadejihad (pick your language-religion) against supermarkets. Erm, where's the problem? What supermarkets have done is to push smaller shops into...
Look at the size of the supermarket trolleys, bulk shopping goes with the car.
The fish shops smelling of bad fish were symptomatic IMHO.
I do when I forget to do it another day.
as always.
local shops are much improved, the supermarkets made them improve or disappear
No. Worse.
indeed
yep
Its the fault of those communities for choosing the supermarket.
so is mine, not always so in the old days, when my wife started shopping, the greengrocer took the pee out of her for not knowing what was in season, if he did that sort of this nowadays he would be out of business.
they are hypocrites if they do that. And I'm sure lots do.
I wonder if the Chinese education system told people how to cook?
Yes. But if you know what you are doing you can cook from raw ingredients quickly and cheaply.
indeed.
at your service :-) -- Mike Reid
