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The most expensive and lowest quality producing way. If you can make it to the store spending a few minutes visually comparing products can really inform decis

by ipaddr 3y ago

The most expensive and lowest quality producing way. If you can make it to the store spending a few minutes visually comparing products can really inform decisions.

redserk 3y ago
What comparison can one realistically do in a grocery store between most products? The packaging disguises a lot of characteristics of the products being sold unless you're strictly looking at produce or raw meats.
- lepus 3y ago
  If the stores you're buying from have most of their produce in packaging then you're buying at best average quality produce in the first place.
  - redserk 3y ago
    Reread my comment as this was already addressed. I explicitly stated products other than produce and meats are in the category of foods that typically are difficult to gauge quality of. To specifically list out the products I'm talking about, consider: milk, oatmeal, flour, snack foods, ice cream, beverages, cheese, broth/stock, prepared soups, condiments such as ketchup, cooking oils, packages of tea bags, breads, jams, and so forth. Vegetables and meats are only slightly easier to gauge quality of because they are typically not packaged, however, anyone who cooks at home regularly can tell you that you still run the risk of getting bad produce/meats even with a close-up visual inspection.
lmm 3y ago
Hardly. People think they can spot quality and that's why American tomatoes are now giant solid flavourless lumps, meat and fish are full of dyes, ...
Clent 3y ago
I have plenty of time to compare products while I sit at home on my phone idly building up carts. Contrast that with standing in a busy aisle as others maneuver around me. If I want to look up more information on an item, I can do so at my leisure on my own WiFi network. Rather than creating a list that I need to then bring to the store, I can idly add items over multiple days. I can price match my items against multiple stores, moving the items to which ever store has the best deal. Then I just checkout and pick it up or select a one hour window for delivery. No more impulse buys. No issues searching the store because they moved things around for the third time in the year. I rarely shop in store anymore and I don't miss it at all. The online options are incredible convenient and I'm perplex that more people on a tech forum don't do the same.

by ipaddr 3y ago

The most expensive and lowest quality producing way. If you can make it to the store spending a few minutes visually comparing products can really inform decisions.

redserk 3y ago

What comparison can one realistically do in a grocery store between most products? The packaging disguises a lot of characteristics of the products being sold unless you're strictly looking at produce or raw meats.

lepus 3y ago
If the stores you're buying from have most of their produce in packaging then you're buying at best average quality produce in the first place.
- redserk 3y ago
  Reread my comment as this was already addressed. I explicitly stated products other than produce and meats are in the category of foods that typically are difficult to gauge quality of. To specifically list out the products I'm talking about, consider: milk, oatmeal, flour, snack foods, ice cream, beverages, cheese, broth/stock, prepared soups, condiments such as ketchup, cooking oils, packages of tea bags, breads, jams, and so forth. Vegetables and meats are only slightly easier to gauge quality of because they are typically not packaged, however, anyone who cooks at home regularly can tell you that you still run the risk of getting bad produce/meats even with a close-up visual inspection.

lmm 3y ago

Hardly. People think they can spot quality and that's why American tomatoes are now giant solid flavourless lumps, meat and fish are full of dyes, ...

Clent 3y ago

I have plenty of time to compare products while I sit at home on my phone idly building up carts. Contrast that with standing in a busy aisle as others maneuver around me. If I want to look up more information on an item, I can do so at my leisure on my own WiFi network. Rather than creating a list that I need to then bring to the store, I can idly add items over multiple days. I can price match my items against multiple stores, moving the items to which ever store has the best deal. Then I just checkout and pick it up or select a one hour window for delivery. No more impulse buys. No issues searching the store because they moved things around for the third time in the year. I rarely shop in store anymore and I don't miss it at all. The online options are incredible convenient and I'm perplex that more people on a tech forum don't do the same.