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Europe has markets that the high end US retailers copy. Just check a high end cheese section in a US market...copied right out of Europe IMO. It has to be a high end store, because your regular grocery stores cheese sections are usually lacking compared to Europe, or even Canada.
When I was growing up in NY, when you wanted a wider selection of cheese, you just went to a cheese shop. Supermarkets had a little bit of everything, but specialty shops had the wide selection.
Cheese at the cheese shop, wine at the wine store, deli goods at delis, etc.
I'm investing in Ali Baba stock and I like this e-commerce cashless, smartphone scanning everything cool grocery store. You don't have to watch everything, but there is no line anywhere and the selections and services are the best. This is the future of all retails.
When I was growing up in NY, when you wanted a wider selection of cheese, you just went to a cheese shop. Supermarkets had a little bit of everything, but specialty shops had the wide selection.
Cheese at the cheese shop, wine at the wine store, deli goods at delis, etc.
It was much the same here. We still have specialty cheese and wine shops as well, but certain supermarkets have picked up their game. One supermarket near me has over 200 cheeses from all over the world, in the deli case. This is not counting the more standard fare that is in the regular cheese case.
Heck, I remember a fish monger driving through our neighbourhood selling fish off the back of his Model T Ford...and this was in the mid 1960's
First of all a bag of Doritos under 2$ might be a temptation to move to NY. Berries do not generally get sold by the case in the US.
As all comparisons - it depends on the writer's point of view. Comparing a 33 store local chain to a 27% market share instead of using one of the national chains says it all.
Well, using the author's preferences, I'd say some US stores are competitive:
Whole Foods and Trader Joe's both put fresh produce near the entrance. Sprouts has their bakery section near the entrance. These are both features that impressed the writer about stores in London. However, most national or large regional chain supermarkets in the US don't do that. Food coops are much better at placement, in my observation, but they're also expensive.
It is not common knowledge, but the hills just an hour outside of New York City are full of wild berries in season
Blueberries, huckleberries, blackberries, raspberries, wineberries, serviceberries, and wild grapes, too.
My family went foraging every summer and we had berries for ice cream, on waffles, on birthday cake, and so on.
You are competing with bears though. You have to get to the choice bushes before they do.
I bet there are places IN NYC that have berries. There are some huge parks within city limits.
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