Have your food shopping habits changed?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
September 25, 2015 9:55am CST
Leaving aside the dim and distant past before we had supermarkets, how have your shopping habits changed in recent years when it comes to buying food?
We used to do a "major shop" once a week at a large supermarket, then top up with odd items from the corner shop. We now have quite a lot of our food delivered - a van delivery from Waitrose and a weekly box of organic fresh vegetables. We still use the corner shop though, and an occasional supermarket visit - but only for a basket of stuff rather than a full trolley.
Have your habits changed, or do you still do what you always did?
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6 responses
@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
26 Sep 15
As for me, after sanctions of European countries, that led to increasing prices for any food here, me and majority of russians have started to spend less money for food (it proves decreasing of an average costs of a bill an supermarkerts of all chains), choosing wisely products and replacing expensive items with cheaper ones. For example we start buying more pasta, bread and potato
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Sep 15
We spend more, buy more, keep big supplies of items. We live in the country so we can't just 'run to the store' on a whim.
@GardenGerty (169489)
• United States
26 Sep 15
I vary my shopping depending on what else is happening in my life. It is different now because in the distant past my husband traveled and any shopping that got done, I did. That husband is deceased. My current husband can do a good job shopping and will often go for single items. When we do big shops we do together.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
26 Sep 15
I mostly still do what I've always done. I change stores occasionally to see if I can do better elsewhere, and I may change the times that I shop depending on what is going on in my life. When I worked overnights I did the shopping early in the morning. When I didn't work I shopped mid morning. Now that I'm working full-time days I do the shopping after work. But I still shop once a week for the whole week.
@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
26 Sep 15
When our family was big, we used to give the list in the provision shop and he will deliver the goods at the door step , sometimes i will get the canteen card or metro card and we will buy it in the wholesale rate and it lasts for 2 or 3 months. now our family members are staying in different places and only me and hubby are staying here and we do not need huge stocks . So buy the minimum requirement in the corner shop only
@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
25 Sep 15
Our shopping habits haven't changed much even though the kids are now grown up. We shop every week alternate weeks at larger wholesale grocery and at a regular supermarket. We grow our own vegetables in the summer.
