[Lilly]

Originally Posted by Cyfr

I'm glad. I hate how supermarkets wage war on small businesses, the heart of many communities and what makes towns different to each other.

The bread from bakeries and the meat from butchers is never going to be as good or fresh from Asda or Tesco. The fruit is never as tasty, never as fresh, never as long lasting. The flowers are never as good as your local shop, they're more expensive (you just don't realise it because SOME things are cheaper), and don't last as long from the supermarket.

I really don't find it any more convenient in a supermarket. I tend to spend more time pushing a trolley past people searching high and low for what I actually want, than if I went to town.

As for price, supermarkets are more expensive. They have so many staff, bring their produce from all over the world, have huge heating/lighting/storage costs. Worse quality, higher prices. They just seem cheap because they use tactics like making a loss on a certain product to promote cheap prices (but you know they have to make it back on other products!), or selling washing up powder in reduced sizes so they seem cheaper but you're really getting less!

A perfect world would be a enclosed market, like a supermarket but with individual businesses. That would solve the convenience factor.

I agree with everything you've said there. Karma on its way.