Posted on 06/27/2023 6:18:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Leave it up to The Atlantic to tell us we've got too many food choices in a grocery store, and for our own good, we ought to have less.
Leave it up to The Atlantic to tell us we've got too many food choices in a grocery store, and for our own good, we ought to have less.
That's pretty much what writer Adam Fleming wrote in his plaintive cry against too much choice at the grocery store.
On a recent afternoon, while running errands before I had to pick up my kids from school, I froze in the orange-juice aisle of a big-box store. So many different brands lay before me: Minute Maid, Simply, Tropicana, Dole, Florida’s Natural, Sunny D — not to mention the niche organic labels. And each brand offered juices with various configurations of pulp, vitamins, and concentrate. The sheer plenitude induced a kind of paralysis: Overwhelmed by the choices on offer, I simply could not make one. I left the store without any orange juice.
According to the American Time Use Survey, an average grocery trip takes more than 40 minutes. That may not sound like much, but the task can feel overwhelming and time-consuming in the midst of a busy day, especially because every trip consists of a plethora of decisions. Through this lens, what seems like a modern benefit — 100 different kinds of ice cream! Every imaginable chip flavor! Hot-dog buns sliced on the side or on the top! — can become a bit of a burden.
Cripes, of all the things to complain about.
We have this thing known as "Google," and we have subscriptions to publications such as Consumer Reports, which help consumers pare down to the best choices, if that's a big deal to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A couple years in North Korea will cure him.
I never complained about all those great choices but I have wanted to meet the people who buy some of the crazy stuff on the shelves.
Just when you think the soybois have reached peak soy, they stun you again.
It must be hell for him deciding on boxers or briefs.
Let them go to whole foods.
I agree with the author…..I yearn for the small local markets that used to be around.
I detest supermarkets.
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They want bread lines.
This person sounds like a perfect candidate for “dog food or medicine?”
And he’d thank whoever gave him the choice! **PUKE**
In 1999, we had a foreign exchange student from Poland living with us. She was a senior in high school and the Communists had been kicked out of Poland less than 10 years prior. Poland was still suffering from the effects.
Gosha, our exchange student, would almost freeze in shopping situations. She was just not used to having so many choices to make.
I have the same problem whenever I walk into a gun store.
Why? You just go in, grab what you want, go through self check out, and head home. Too many choices? I can’t conceive of that. Maybe the author has early Alzheimer’s?
Wow. That would be a nice problem to have if it applied to, say education.choices.
Here’s a tip to cut down shopping times if anyone is worried about paralysis, OR concerned about their health. I shop the outside aisles plus aisles for baking and pasta/international foods (my favorite store has all those Goya products in the spaghetti aisle). Then once you do that you’ll save enough time to cook/bake good food.
I’m going to have a slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie now. You can’t find that in the junk food aisle or bakery section of the store.
Amazon has the NE style hot dog buns.
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so intolerable. I hope you don’t want to shoot yourself. 😂
Personally, as far as the choices, I usually will buy what is on sale, or store brand if lowest unit cost. Only a few things I have brand loyalty like Diet Coke™
Communists get disoriented when they go in a supermarket.
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