Supermarkets in the states are huge. Down here they are small, smaller, and smallest. Most of the time they are the smallest. They don't have 600 flood lights to keep all the products well lite and visible. The ISTE' has about 1 or 2 florescent tubes for each aisle. I say 1 or 2 because half of them don't work or are in that flickering / going out stage. Not exactly like the states.
Kind of a random shopping list. So I went to the ISTE' and was completely lost. Can you remember the months when you had to readjust you shopping patterns because a Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyers did a remodel and you didn't know where anything was. That is how I felt today but 3x's worse. Fist of all do you know how Wal-mart leaves a giant pallet of their big sale item in the middle of the shopping floor. They do that here except it's not just one item. Its 20 of this 30 of that, 5 of these, 5 other randoms objects tossed in the pile. It's not 300 new lawn chairs that didn't sell in the summer, it's more of the variety pallet. Also try going to buy soap and want to know what smell you are going to end up with. That is also a little bit of a mystery, because I don't know all the descriptive words on the bottle or can. Let me give you an example.
So do you think Elote is noodle, chicken noodle, cream of mushroom, cream corn. That is the battle I face everyday. Why does this language kick your butt right when you are starting to feel confident.
So be thankful for you Costco that is 35 minutes away because the closest thing I have is a Sam's Club this is 3 hours away in Acapulco. The interesting thing down here is when you buy in bulk you don't actually pay less you just get more in one large bottle. You still have to pay for the 20% free. That is why everyone just buys the personal sizes because they really don't improve much if you but the 80 gallon container of mayo.
Scott Ekstrom
4 comments:
Interesting to know you got your dad's shopping gene! He doesn't like shopping much either! Love mom
elote=corn it took me awhile to learn that too so you are looking at cream of corn soup
scotty! reading your blog makes me miss mexico SO MUCH ... you're right on. i remember going shopping at the big wal mart we had in morelia and you never knew what they would have on the shelves. every once in a while they'd have brownies and we'd get so excited and call all our friends ... they're such a perfect ministry food.
you're missed around here, buddy, but it's great to see your pics and hear how you're doing. and i've totally made that green salsa, and you're right -- it's life changing.
Thanks for the words of encouragement to everybody. I'd love to call everyone and write emails to everyone but this is the easiest way to actually get my experiences in print. Because if your anything like me I never read bulk emails, They drive me nuts, blogging has been great and I hope everyone has enjoyed it I'm collecting ideas for my next post so keep checking in.
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