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Previously on "Comparisons shopping in the supermarket - Germany / UK"
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI remember Platzspitz in Zürich...
I think you'll find that customers and the set-up in most supermarkets in both the UK and Germany are very similar at the moment. Germany also has idiots not following the stay at home, some towns along the Rhein at the weekend had problems with visitors and the Odenwald, near where I live, had a large influx of people catching the rays, idiots (the police report was quite interesting on the amount of motorcyclists and car drivers stopped for speeding)
We do have hand sanitiser at the door in Switzerland - and the bigger supermarket I use have a ticketing system.
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Originally posted by reddog View PostYeah, but was this in some nice village/small town or somewhere like the area around Frankfurt HB? (the only place in the world where I have seen someone openly smoking crack in the street)
I live in Zurich, Switzerland(I realise that isn't Germany), went to a railway station supermarket last night, and no one was obeying niceties like waiting at the end aisles, but I know the people in some nice village would be doing that (just as they would in some nice village in the UK)
I think you'll find that customers and the set-up in most supermarkets in both the UK and Germany are very similar at the moment. Germany also has idiots not following the stay at home, some towns along the Rhein at the weekend had problems with visitors and the Odenwald, near where I live, had a large influx of people catching the rays, idiots (the police report was quite interesting on the amount of motorcyclists and car drivers stopped for speeding)
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostSurprising!! A German friend of mine told me only last year how un-widespread the use of cards are vs. cash, mostly because they believe that prices will go up if cards become widespread, and ze Germans are VERY careful with money.
@Eirikur, it's probably something to do with the war
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostTell me what it is like when you go to the supermarket? Are you guys seeing the same behaviour?
Was surprised how much social attitudes changed in the space of a week. Yesterday be like:
1) People waited at the bottom of the aisle until I was finished.
I live in Zurich, Switzerland(I realise that isn't Germany), went to a railway station supermarket last night, and no one was obeying niceties like waiting at the end aisles, but I know the people in some nice village would be doing that (just as they would in some nice village in the UK)Last edited by reddog; 30 March 2020, 14:42.
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostSurprising!! A German friend of mine told me only last year how un-widespread the use of cards are vs. cash, mostly because they believe that prices will go up if cards become widespread, and ze Germans are VERY careful with money.
@Eirikur, it's probably something to do with the war
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Originally posted by scooterscot View Post2) The checkout - no cash, only contactless.
@Eirikur, it's probably something to do with the war
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The Timpsons concession was closed too.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostIf you know anything about the inhabitants of London boroughs, stick to the rich areas.
The sick rich people have space to self-isolate.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI'm going to do a walk past of the supermarkets just now. I've got enough food but if there is no queue I'll get the wife a bottle of plonk.
I'm swaying to go to the more deprived areas where they probably wash their hands less or to the richer areas where their levels of hygiene are better but probably mix with folk that ski in the alps.
The sick rich people have space to self-isolate.
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