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mobby_6kl posted:Wait Globus is too expensive for the Swiss!? I've been interchangeably buying groceries there with the other supermarket chains and it doesn't feel significantly more expensive, other than maybe not having as many large sales The Globus department store is not necessarily that expensive (although it has lots of high end brands too). It’s the grocery store in the basement of most - but not all - Globuses that is super expensive. Voss water and such. As a day to day grocery store it’s definitely too expensive. Like to the point you will get a laugh if someone says "Migros or Coop kid?" (A pretty typical semi-joking question) and someone answers "no, Globus kid" it probably means they got chauffeured to school. If someone says Aldi or Lidl kid, then you call child protective services and get their parents arrested.
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I think the confusion is because Globus is also a German chain of bog standard hypermarkets.
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Sometimes when a thread talks about grocery chains I have a moment where I think people are just making up funny sounding words as a joke until I see one I recognise thrown in there
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Guavanaut posted:North and South Europe This time the Sudetenland fortifications will hold!
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Sometimes when a thread talks about grocery chains I have a moment where I think people are just making up funny sounding words as a joke until I see one I recognise thrown in there Tarmo, Sesto, Elanto, Kukkura, Siwa, KKK Supermarket, Rimi, Cassa, Rabatti, Spar.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Tarmo, Sesto, Elanto, Kukkura, Siwa, KKK Supermarket, Rimi, Cassa, Rabatti, Spar. Excuse me?
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Some woman opened a diner near me that was named (and had signage in this format): Katherine's Kountry Kitchen. They changed it to: Marybeth Katherine's Kountry Kitchen about a month later.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:31
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Circle K is suspicious enough, kyklos klan?
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dublish posted:Excuse me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZee96IbI2U
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Some woman opened a diner near me that was named (and had signage in this format): ...Has spelling country properly not occurred to them?
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OddObserver posted:...Has spelling country properly not occurred to them? not hard(core) enough
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Stop, I am crying already. Markka, oh my beatiful markkas...
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Cutesy American businesses and etsy stores REALLY love spelling "Country" with a K for some reason.  
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Guavanaut posted:Circle K is suspicious enough, kyklos klan? They did a thing where they had three flagpoles with their logo flags on them at each location. Then they quickly stopped doing that.
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Mmm, American Dressing
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The prices could be current.
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My favorite grocery chain is ShopRite, which is not one chain but a cooperative of 50 different chains, all of which use the same name. Some are large, some are small. All are ShopRite. They even own a few stores themselves. https://www.shoprite.com/sm/pickup/rsid/3000/meetourmembers Look at all these different families, it's like Renaissance Italy
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jeebus bob posted:Danish Aldi was not nearly cheap enough to justify how crap they were and their direct competitors in the "vaguely German discount brands" (Lidl) - though a bit more expensive - was consistently a LOT nicer.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My favorite grocery chain is ShopRite, which is not one chain but a cooperative of 50 different chains, all of which use the same name. Some are large, some are small. All are ShopRite. They even own a few stores themselves. it was pretty funny watching the founder/ceo or whatever eat poo poo in the mayoral contest but then he also re-opened the upper darby location and its probably the best grocery store in delco rn so whose to say if he is good or bad
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I like ShopRite because it's the one grocery store that sells things labeled hot or medium here in Albany. I don't have to stock up on hot sauce monthly in Connecticut.
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Well it's interesting because there can be a huge variation in Shoprites, layout, specific items, etc. because it's secretly dozens of different chains
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https://youtu.be/_EQVxzkhpJ8?si=j1GMQuDK9TLucjl3 The best part about ShopRite
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Well it's interesting because there can be a huge variation in Shoprites, layout, specific items, etc. because it's secretly dozens of different chains The ketchup aisle in the vineland nj shoprite is gigantic
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Shoprite is indeed inconsistent but pretty good. A lot of them are unionized which is cool. In the NE, Wegmans has supplanted them as the “good grocery store” though
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You can't tell me how to shop right 
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Sometimes when a thread talks about grocery chains I have a moment where I think people are just making up funny sounding words as a joke until I see one I recognise thrown in there 
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soviet elsa posted:Mmm, American Dressing Made from the best Americans.
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Letmebefrank posted:Made from the best Americans.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I dunno, would probably be really fatty. It's called marbling, get a palate.
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the thing i heard that is almost certainly fake if you think about it for even a tiny span of time but i choose to believe is true is that one of the reasons that maneating tigers and lions are such a problem is that human meat has so much fat and salt and so on compared to animals you'd encounter in the wild that it's just way tastier and so once they start eating people they just can't stop. that and the fact that wendigos are real.
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The way I always heard it presented was that humans are a garbage tier prey, but they are a viable alternative for predators who are too weak to hunt anything else, thus they become man-eaters.
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steinrokkan posted:The way I always heard it presented was that humans are a garbage tier prey, but they are a viable alternative for predators who are too weak to hunt anything else, thus they become man-eaters. i've heard yeah that maneaters start hunting people because they are too weak or sick to catch other prey but why do they keep it up, that's where the "unexpectedly tasty" thing would come in (it's, again, almost certainly horseshit)
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Especially as most of the tales of people being eaten by lions or tigers were Asian indentured laborers being worked by Britain or French, and so wouldn't exactly be in the best health.
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As they say, hunger is the best spice
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My favorite grocery chain is ShopRite, which is not one chain but a cooperative of 50 different chains, all of which use the same name. Some are large, some are small. All are ShopRite. They even own a few stores themselves. Wow, I had no idea. Are there other examples like this in other industries?
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steinrokkan posted:The way I always heard it presented was that humans are a garbage tier prey, but they are a viable alternative for predators who are too weak to hunt anything else, thus they become man-eaters. I have read similar things, and also that most but not all man-eaters that are killed and examined are discovered to have some kind of health condition that makes it difficult for them to hunt their usual prey. Rotten teeth, for example, or a badly healed broken bone.
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EasilyConfused posted:Wow, I had no idea. Are there other examples like this in other industries? My liquor store works like that, albeit on a smaller scale. My boss owns a few stores but they're all under the umbrella brand owned by a liquor supplier who is in turn a co op of smaller liquor suppliers and importers it's a rad structure compared to the alternative
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Sometimes when a thread talks about grocery chains I have a moment where I think people are just making up funny sounding words as a joke until I see one I recognise thrown in there Yeah I've seen so many grocery store conversations online where people just have no idea that other people have never heard of the store they're posting about. Grocery chains are highly regional, but because they're such an unremarkable part of everyone's life, I think people tend to assume their own locally dominant chain is some kind of universal experience.
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