yonmei

12:26 pm: The Guardian had an article about what your choice of supermarkets says about you.

Now, maybe it's not having a car, but I read it thinking "What is he on?" I used to shop at Safeway's: it was twenty minutes walk from where I lived, and a convenient bus ride back, and my parents had shopped at the same store, so I knew where to find everything. Then I moved. I kept on shopping at Safeways because it was still a convenient bus ride there and back. Then they re-organised the store, and I stopped shopping there and started shopping at Scotmid, twenty minutes walk from where I lived and a convenient bus ride back. I have to admit that there's something in the fact that you get used to various products sold by a supermarket, but this is 95% branding (not quite 100%: Scotmid hummous is vile stuff). I still irregularly shop at Tescos and at Iceland, primarily when-I'm-passing: Iceland have a branch at the top of Easter Road, and I used to shop at Tescos for my great-aunt. When I lived in Reading I shopped at Safeways routinely because it was convenient on the way home from work. (No handy bus ride: I'd book a taxi once a month for cat litter and food and toilet roll. The taxi cost only as much as delivery from Tescos Online, and I found Tescos Online a pain to deal with, though delivery was good.) So for me, choice of supermarket comes down to pretty much one thing: geographical location.

With this in mind, I've devised two polls. Please only answer one. I realise that you may be one half of a couple and the other half has a car, but do you use it to go shopping with? If yes, regularly, answer the car-owner's quiz even though you're technically not a car owner.


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