SuperMarkets - EVIL SCUM !?!!?? (This thread for REWCH)

Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Slothrop said:
I've got half a theory that the reason that the reason local businesses lose out so hard to supermarkets isn't the price or the location but the opening hours. I'm lucky that where I live there are quite a lot of high street grocers and butchers (proper oldskool cheap ones too, none of your "organic free range hand reared cabbages £15 a lb"), but they tend to shut at about five o'clock. I can get to them because I'm a grad student and can work random hours, but if I worked a proper job I'd be more or less obliged to shop at Sainsburys because it's the only place you can go after work...
Click to expand...
Add to this theory all the small-to-medium grocers in London - stay open forever, seem to be doing okay.

Yasar Halim have got my shopping on lockdown atm.
 
B

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I guess Green Lanes is the same, but I find Streatham Hill one of the best places in London for medium-sized grocers within walking distance. Middle Eastern supermarker/bakery, vast Indian shop, and Polish grocers, all within a few minutes. Anything i can't get at one of those three must be pretty specialised...
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
baboon2004 said:
Middle Eastern supermarker/bakery, vast Indian shop, and Polish grocers, all within a few minutes. Anything i can't get at one of those three must be pretty specialised...
Click to expand...

Or Chinese.

One of the best things about living in Bow at the moment is the fantastic Chinese grocery across the road from me. Full of Japanese, Thai, Korean and Viet stuff too. Things like frozen cuttlefish, which I had in a Thai green curry the other day, and packets of dried black fungus labelled "Black Fungus". Though I haven't tried this yet... :slanted:

The Chinese have a refreshingly unsqueamish approach to food, I find.
 
B

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
True enough. I guess I don't cook Chinese or Japnese much any more, so i hadn't noticed the lack. If I want that, usually just go to Chinatown.
 
S

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
don_quixote said:
YOU WHAT?? what is this myth goin about that supermarkets are cheaper than markets.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure how it stands at this particular moment but at the beginning of this year there were news stories in Ontario about how it is cheaper to buy locally and encouraging viewers to do so.

The reason is because due to the recession people were doing all their shopping at "cut-rate" grocery stores like Price Chopper and No Frills under the guise that they were saving money. The fact of the matter was that they were more expensive than ever since they often ship their food in from afar, sometimes even across the border, and so were getting bogged down in expensive taxes, petrol prices, etc. Since the travel time between locally produced food and the local market is much less, and often because things like butchers, bakers, etc specialize, they don't need to do things like loss-leading, the prices are much lower.

However, because these markets aren't called PRICE CHOPPER, people don't really know they are cheaper. So what was happening was the markets, also affected by the recession but obviously less resilient, had to start hiking up their prices. Which meant more people were going to supermarkets.
 
Last edited:
hucks

hucks

Your Message Here
Mr. Tea said:
Or Chinese.

One of the best things about living in Bow at the moment is the fantastic Chinese grocery across the road from me. Full of Japanese, Thai, Korean and Viet stuff too. Things like frozen cuttlefish, which I had in a Thai green curry the other day, and packets of dried black fungus labelled "Black Fungus". Though I haven't tried this yet... :slanted:
Click to expand...


Is this the one on Bow Road? I generally find I have to go to Stepney for ingredients and that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top