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 ...
If there’s a lot of different brands at a particular grocery store those different companies owning those brands are paying for the shelf space at that particular grocery store.
Believe it, or not.
The Atlantic writer is an idiot for not researching that small detail.
Never saw much of a bread line. We always got good bread there, though there were rumors they added saw dust to it.
Complete BS though, since Ukraine was part of the USSR.
That was a meat store though in the picture, and the article said is was for meat.
Sounds like this imbecile needs other people to make his decisions for him.
Poor idiot.
I actually wrote a letter to him on his personal website, but could never bring myself to hit send. I told him how I understood his view point, but that I had a different one— and how when I first moved to Boston in the mid 90s, I encountered a store called Bread & Circus (which is now Whole Foods). I loved shopping there because of the wealth of goodies they had, and all the different brands that I got to try.
I found it exciting, the country mouse exploring the great big city...
It was such a fun time in my life.
But I never had the guts to hit send — because I don’t think he could appreciate that the weird punk rock conservative woman writing him had a more open mind than his.
I don’t get a person like him, but I don’t want to change him... he can do what he wants, but I don’t get why he wants to limit MY adventure (unless it came to aborting children, in that case — I could go to town I guess...)
I don’t get control freaks, I really don’t.
Why do they care what other people do? And further, don’t they question their own need to micromanage people...
I just don’t get it.
What areas of the UK did you visit?
Faggot ...
He chooses French-cut panties.
Moscow on the Hudson (1984) coffee aisle scene
Didn’t see your previous post, sorry, I posted the same thing downthread!
Shop Aldi's. They are like a small market. One brand of almost everything.
He needs to come to the four grocery stores I have to go to in order to find the things I used to be able to get in just one.
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IMO this trend will only continue over the next decade or two.
The heyday of a global economy where a consumer can snap their fingers & get whatever their heart desires is incrementally changing. We’re burning up producers, supply chains, and allocating labor & capital into nonessential commercial enterprises.
It should become more apparent the closer we get to 2030.
What a wuss.
Unable to make a decision about orange juice.
How does she function at all?
Ooops.... He.
What brings a grown man to such a helpless state where he can’t even decide what kind of orange juice to get?
The premise isn’t the problem, that it IS ridiculous the number of choices of OJ and the hair splitting variations available. But sheesh, just pick one and buy it already.
You sure he don’t wear woman’s panties? He sounds like he would feel more comfortable in panties than men’s boxers.
You said it!
I tried it once and never could figure how or why ANYONE would buy that vile concoction nor why it was even considered food.
I liked the rye triscuits but those aren’t available any more.
The only choices I prefer are low salt options for mr. mm who is on a low salt diet, and unscented products as I am allergic to most fragrances.
We had a choice.
Take it or leave it.
And if we left it, it still wouldn't go to waste. With four siblings, someone would be more than gad to take that share.
Liberals like to think that they are open minded, but they really aren't.
Like you said, they are control freaks and simply cannot stand anyone disagreeing with them.
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