there are also no grocery baggers. i can understand not paying unnecessary people; however, i always feel stressed out when i'm trying to pack my groceries really quickly into my backpack and the lady is already throwing the next person's groceries down the counter.
16 June 2009
the grocery store.
german grocery stores tend to to be smaller than american ones. in some ways, i find nearly everything about them better. you have to pay for bags, which encourages people to bring their own reusable ones. you have to pay a deposit on bottled drinks, which means people will return/recycle them to get their money back. you have to put a euro in the grocery cart in order to unlock it, which means people will certainly return it in order to get their euro back, and no cart boys are going to have to chase them down in the middle of a parking lot.
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HAHA! Yes! I totally felt to same way. It was always a rush to load the groceries. The NL was the same way about bags and carts. However, plastic was never an option.
ReplyDeleteDo they have recycle stations for bottles? In Maastricht, they kinda looked like an ATM. You slide the 24 crate of Becks in at the bottom, and then take the 4 Euro's you got for recycling and by another 24 pack of Becks.
I am certain this is what heaven is like.