1 kg baking potatoes -- E 1.08
1 kg carrots -- E 2.10
1/2 kg baby peas -- E 2.23
1 liter Ocean Spray cranberry juice -- E 1.30
1 liter Johnny Walker Red -- E 19.34
2 300 ml bottles of Head & Shoulders shampoo, menthol-scented -- E 9.30
The veggies are reasonable compared to prices in my area, even cheap. So -- surprisingly -- is the Ocean Spray. I don't drink **blended** Scots whisky, so I've no idea what JWR sells for here. The shampoo seems awfully high.
Well, have fun shopping in French (g!).
They didn't price sugar, or rice, or cooking oil on the site, but I'm told by my globe-hopping currency-trading partner in crime, Barbara Rockefeller, that such staples are heavily subsidised to the consumer, hence amazingly cheap.
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the reason I ask is, at the price of some stuff in
a US grocery store, if prices were comparable
to those in Europe, Europeans could homebrew their
own fuel alcohol, or use cooking oil in their cars.
My contention is, when insane taxes are applied to fuel,
it distorts the whole economy, as substitutes need to be
controlled,
For example, sugar, I think is {wholesale}
priced in Europe at three times world price,
nice for millionaire farmers, bad for the poor.