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Might be for the way American do groceries, and usually in Europe people are way more attracted by local, smaller scale stores and buy food almost exclusively d
by jypepin 9y ago
Might be for the way American do groceries, and usually in Europe people are way more attracted by local, smaller scale stores and buy food almost exclusively day by day.
So no, something like Costco where you can buy everything at 10x the scale to save some bucks might not be as appealing for the european market, which is more into local, healthy alternatives, despite being more expensive.
source: I lived half my life in America, half in Europe.
- arkades 9y agoI really love and prefer the way grocery shopping is done in Europe, but it's fairly contingent on the ubiquity of those small grocers. In the US, a much larger / lower population density country, physically getting to a grocery on a daily basis isn't practical. I don't see this as being about "healthier alternatives" or "saving a few bucks." I can't do European-style grocery shopping in the US /despite/ my preference for it.
- oh_sigh 9y agoYou can do it, you just need to live in a city. If you need to drive 15 minutes each way to get to the grocery store, then doing that every day is a huge waste of time.
- jypepin 9y agoTrue. I wanted to say that it's bc europe is more populated in cities vs us, but didn't have anything back it up and wasn't sure it was true - but yeah, it's mostly because of city living, smaller grocers and smaller places with smaller room to store stuff :)