Here is my shopping receipt from Sainsbury’s.
They are the closest big supermarket, but their sales are always buy 1 get 1 free, which means you end up with twice as much stuff as you want, and makes carrying everything home a huge pain.
Right now Google says £1 = $2.80 NZ, or $1.80 Canadian
- £1.73 Organic Whole Milk (2 liters)
- £2.00 Garlic bread (4 sticks) – 2 for 1
- £1.26 Tissues (90 sheets) – the type you blow your nose with
- £0.89 Tomato Relish (300g)
- £0.88 Onion and Garlic Sauce (500g)
- £2.49 Sweet Clementines (2 bags of 8 – they are mandarins) – 2 for 1
- £1.99 8 low fat pork sausages
- £1.67 frozen peas (907g)
I love/hate shopping in England. If you’re earning the pound, it’s fantastic and cheap. And they have a large variety.
But then there’s the “customer service” and the carrying a million bags full of heavy crap back to the flat. Ah England.
I think you should have a more attractive looking blog. Go find yoself a nice template dude!
They sure do love to give you plastic bags. The big chains are pretty good, and ask if you need bags (Sarah and I have 2 cloth ones, plus our backpacks), but at the small shops I have a lot of trouble getting the idea across to the workers that I don’t want a bag.
Like if you are at the dairy buying a coke or a chocolate bar, they try to give you a plastic bag. If you buy 2 chicken strip burgers for £2 they put them in Styrofoam containers and then put those in a plastic bag.
I haven’t even seen Styrofoam in NZ in the last 20 years!
I know, weird huh? It’s like “Nooo I’m going to drink that can of coke, I don’t neeed a bag for it”. It seems to be the total opposite in NZ. Heaven forbid you want a bag (because you stupidly forgot your fabric ones) for your weekly groceries lol. I mean wtf do they expect you to do with your stuff, man? lol.