In my country; I live within walking distance of an Iceland (great for frozen processed food, snacks and desert/terrible for health food); and a Tesco. My Iceland (on the way to Tesco) My Tesco There's a Sainsbury's like a mile away I drive to (just up the road). I drive to Iceland and Tesco too, but I rarely walk to Sainsbury's but I'm always popping off (by foot) to Tesco or Iceland. I also study within walking distance of a Sainsbury's Express. I don't have any Asdas in my part of town. Asda is like WallMart anyway. In PA, I did a lot of my shopping at Giant; Giant is a regional supermarket in PA. (This was the closest I could find of my supermarket in PA).. This place is better than WallMart IMO. WallMart's okay, but this is good for snacks and sodas, like ice cream and all of that. Plus it was here in 2001 I first saw self serve... I think UK got that in 2011. I didn't even see that WallMart. In the NL... This branch of Albert Heijn near the Royal Palace My snapshots here from 2015.
Jeebers! Don't know where you live, but you seem surrounded by SMs ... and very keen on same. My favourite SM is my back yard. Always has plenty of fresh organic produce. Beyond that, Aldi ... of course. They do an almost complete line of organic options, and are as cheap as it gets.
I'm a shopper of proximity and Aldi's just not on my radar. The closest one I've got is 1.3 miles away the other side of Sainsbury's in South Norwood by Norwood Junction train station (and I'm in Thornton Heath); same town (Croydon, in South London) but, a neighbouring neighbourhood. I have Lidl in Thornton Heath Pond; Lidl are okay. (I'm estimating these distances, it's not far, but it's not like 0.8 miles or less); It's not like I just pop out to all the way there when I'm passing like 3 to get there, and Iceland can be pretty 'affordable').. Even if it is their home brand or brand names but bigger quantities and different recipes, so it's like, bigger sizes of stuff to make it cheaper, at Iceland).
We have a family owned grocery store in my city...they have 30+ locations. I enjoy their easy to shop stores and prices are good. One sits directly beside a Wal-Mart...but competes well in part by supplying high quality less expensive meat than what Wal-Mart offers. I hate grocery shopping at Wal-Mart.....
In rush hour, driving to Iceland's not even fun... (I mean that) (Fender benders, road rage), and that's a place I can run to in 3 minutes by foot, because I'm literally around the corner; I reiterate; my grocery shopping habits are proximity based. I'm just glad I can walk to Tesco too. True story about Tesco, Tesco do 24 shopping; except for my one. We had it; then too many thefts and 'an incident' (according to staff there) mean Thornton Heath Tesco now closes at midnight... Such a shame, can't have anything nice here. Like 24 hour shopping.
I like to run, used to run a lot, so I have timed myself, it's not on my door step but it may as well be; From here to Tesco, is a 5 minute run; that's awesome in my book, being so close to a Tesco. I wouldn't call Poundland a supermarket... But it sort of it, just with no Fresh fruit or frozen food... and everything £1. I judge all my distances by Poundland, because google once told me it's 0.2 miles away, and it's the 3rd closest because it's after Tesco which is after Iceland in terms of walking to, I can walk to Poundland in under 10 minutes, and they have no parking in my one.. Great for snacks though, I mean, if you're ever going to a cinema (UK for theater); then Poundland is where you want to get all your snacks and refreshments from before hand (sneaking in outside snacks into movies because of places like Poundland, is awesome); also; virtually everything in Poundland is £1.00 My Poundland Ever since this opened in Thornton Heath in 2014, Tesco have an aisle now for cheap snacks and things in response to this new Poundland in Thornton Heath.- I was manager here when it was a pawnshop in 2012 and before that, in 2009 or whenever and for years; It was a Blockbuster Video R.I.P
I saw a Marks & Spencer in Amsterdam. Marks & Spencer have really good food, but costs more.. Also.. I like to go at the end of the day, when they put their yellow sticker/reduced to clear stuff out... Today I had a really good sandwich reduced to £0.90p ; Marks & Spencer are British and posh/upmarket, so I was and wasn't surprised to see one out in Amsterdam.. but.. In Croydon, it's when I go that way, my school's in Croydon. I can't stress this enough, if anyone ever visits my country and wants really good food/like the best this country's got - go to a Marks & Spencer a.k.a M&S.
I grow 'really good food' in my back yard. I'll admit to a weakness for high end cheese, chocolate, wine, and coffee ..... the beatitudes which can't be home grown.
I've often wondered how long it'll take to grow 1 bowl of garden peas worth, and think; Frozen is better. Frozen boasts freezing the freshness in. There's this Hong Kong supermarket I know across town (Croydon)... They're also a cash & carry too for Chinese cuisine/Chinese places in the UK but.. Their supermarket sells home sized versions of all the things restaurants buy huge vol tubs of for industrial Chinese food cooking.. I've raved on about this one already though in another thread;
I went grocery shopping with my wife at Fred Meyer which is a grocery store and department store. She bought the groceries, and I bought this ....
I enjoyed those videos of supermarkets in the UK... So I wanted to see if there were any videos of them in the Netherlands, and straight away I found the actual one I like in Amsterdam..
