 are you planning on visiting the United States? Important tip: the price of groceries is not fixed. It’s calculated per store based on the average household income of the local area. Gas prices are similar, they can vary vastly. You can save a lot of money on a car trip by planning your foraging accordingly [I have explained this to a few different Dutch people and they were all surprised it would vary that much] 10 comments
@0xabad1dea Grocery store (and fuel) brands vary, too. I once took a visiting British friend to Fresh and Easy (which was owned by Tesco, so I figured it'd be a little more familiar). Then he wanted to get a 2-liter bottle of Dr Pepper for his professor, and I was like: “We are not buying Dr. Pepper here.” Took him to Albertsons where the same soda was $2 cheaper (99¢/bottle). and why yes this does mean that when an American moves so they can get a 20% better paying job, the milk and bread just magically costs 20% more @0xabad1dea and that americans will habitually drive an hour plus to buy groceries somewhere cheaper @anime_reference yeah my mom used to make a Pilgrimage every two weeks for a colossal shopping trip  @anime_reference @0xabad1dea My father was in the Army Reserve, which meant that he was on active duty two weeks every summer. Which meant that we could use the military commissary for those two weeks. And so we would drive 45 minutes to take a 50-minute ferry across the lake to drive another 15 minutes to the Air Force base to fill up the car with cheap groceries. (Of course this was in the early 1980s when I was a teen and the cost of food was a much greater proportion of family income.)  @0xabad1dea I'm curious, how does this affect online shopping? Does it change price based on IP or location?  @0xabad1dea the United States is a better analog to the entirety of Europe (and then some) than imagining it as a single country. With this in mind I’d imagine they wouldn’t be surprised if food prices between Paris and Warsaw differ a lot, no? @0xabad1dea ...and from this I've inferred that elsewhere prices are essentially the same country-wide which boggles my tiny mind. |
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@0xabad1dea You can literally travel 6 blocks and find the same item for 2-3$ less. Yes, shop around.