Part four, grocery shopping.
This weekend there was no cultural program, because we spent the whole Saturday on the road for groceries. We went to four grocery stores at once. Filled the entire trunk to the limit, so that there was enough food for the whole week.
The first store was Asian Asiana. Russians often visit this store because the products are more similar to our range and a little cheaper. For example, cabbage in American stores is similar to our young cabbage and it is bad to pickle it. Good tea is not in demand in America, so they buy it in an Asian store, and so on. There are even Russian goods such as Maheev mayonnaise, boxed sweets… There are a lot of Indian and Chinese visitors, many women wear saris..
Costco
Then we went to the Costco store. This is also a network of stores throughout America like our Metro. The store is huge, even bigger than the Metro, and there are mobile stands with people everywhere who advertise various foods and let you try in small paper tartlets. If you go around them all, then you can eat. Carts twice the size of our carts in our store OK. Many people pick up groceries directly from platforms like ours at Metro for Entrepreneurs or Bulk Purchases. A woman with a child, the age of my grandson, loaded such a platform entirely and in my height. How will she manage all this?
There are a lot of people, maybe it’s because Thanksgiving Day is coming, and this is a very big holiday in America. This is the day when loved ones and relatives gather and eat turkey with a cranberry sweet sauce similar to our jam. Discounted turkeys are sold during this period. We also bought the smallest one for $32, and it weighed about 11 kg. In general, the prices here are very difficult to compare with our prices because other units of measurement (pounds, gallons), organic or non-organic and the changing exchange rate of the ruble.
Then we went for a herring, a distance of about 10 kilometers, to a store where the Russian-speaking David sells. Americans don’t eat herring, so it’s sold in stores called European Foods. There is “Moscow sausage”, kefir, black bread, “Russian cheese”, etc.
This is such a grocery shopping.
