Do you love foreign supermarkets?

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I never shop at home, just get a delivery. However I love browsing supermarkets abroad. I love the huge jars of chickpeas and lentils in France and Spain. I also love that you can buy remoulade in France. And picnic wine

I bought some lovely bottles of rose in holland with stopper, like a grolsch bottle. And the cheese . Everything in holland looks so effortlessly fresh and healthy.

I bought the most gorgeous oregano in Zante last year which is about to run out so thinking about booking a holiday only half joking and olive oil.

Can't think of anything else, so do you love a foreign supermarket, and what have been your best buys?

Ps I sometimes go to Lidl and pretend to be on holiday 😎

I love French supermarkets! Ready made croque monsieurs in the fridge section, patisserie lemon tarts and various other delicious puddings and all the yummy cheeses.

Actually, I have just remembered the shower gel aisle in a French supermarket. Shower gel that smells of marshmallows? Yes please!

Love it! Thought it was just me.
Spanish tomatoes mmm. And all the different yogurty things and those apple purees they have for breakfast in France. And all the lovely biccies and Lays crisps which I know are just Walkers but taste better.
Luckily dh seems to enjoy it as much as me but for the ham and cold meat section!

Lays paprika crisps - have not seen them in uk.

Italian ones are the best, so much more choice in terms of convenient fresh food

Cold Storage was our favourite shop in Singapore! DDs loved the smell, the vast array of San Pellegrino flavours and the perfectly vacuum packed, neat, beautiful, exotic and frankly, very blimin expensive, fruit and veg! Never tired of the recognisable toiletries brands but that had loads and loads of previously unheard of stuff, like Johnson’s etc. It’s Johnson’s but not as we know it!

Carrefour stationery aisle during back to school season = bliss

The wine section in the massive Carrefour I last visited.... swoon. Along with French pharmacies, I love going to the supermarkets and homewards/kitchenware shops. Love love love Italian supermarkets, why can't we get octopus antipasto here like they sell, along with all the yummy olives?

Don't get me started on Monoprix....

HK supermarkets sell the most amazing selections of sushi, at a fraction of the price in the UK. Love the snack aisles too.

Cold Storage in the 70’s!!

I love some sections of foreign (especially French since the language isn't an issue) supermarkets but get quite stressed at other sections. Basically, there are certain things I only buy a particular brand of (e.g. butter spread, drinking chocolate) and when I don't have that option I don't know what to buy.

Heaven is the dessert isle in a French supermarket!

When I was young (over 30 years ago) we had a Carrefour in Birmingham which I went to now and then after school with my mother and grandmother. We had tea there - usually something like sausage and chips and somewhere along the line I ate a double sugar lump with the carrefour logo on the packet or a jam doughnut. There was a refrigerated aisle with pale blue transparent plastic curtain things but I can't remember at all what we bought there!

I have to go to the supermarket at least once a day on holiday-in France I always stock up on plaits of smoked garlic, fountain pens and unusual coloured ink cartridges, and compote de pommes/poires/châtaignes etc. Best thing I saw though was last year in Italy, in the supermarket you could buy a refillable bottle and fill it up from one of several “taps” that dispensed wine!

Also, I once applied for a credit card in my local bank branch shortly before going to France. The manager filled in the ‘intended use’ section with ‘baguettes, cheese and ham’ so I guess I’m with SureIusedtobetaller’s dh.

Oh and there was a conveyor belt thingy which you put your tray on.....

Ooohhh yes I love a foreign supermarket when I'm away.

I went to an Amish supermarket in Delaware, omg all the baking and cooking supplies. And the fresh stuff. I was like a kid in a sweet shop.

Dp just doesn't get it, he'll come along with me though. I'll spend ages looking at stuff I'm not going to buy.

I love the smell of European supermarkets. Greece in particular.

I have finally found my people! My in laws live in Spain and think my love for the Masymas is bizarre! I particularly enjoy a trip to the Masymas. Very excited to try out Walmart later in the year!

DH, DD and I were in raptures over the sheer choice of Rittersport when we were in Germany

I liked going into the supermarkets for a Golden Gaytime.

....in Australia that is?

I used to live in France and I NEVER got bored of doing the weekly shop.

When I was 14 I went to stay with a family I knew in the States and the Mum was most bemused when I asked her to take me to the grocery store. I remember bringing home strawberry Philadelphia among other delights.

Yes I love shopping at supermarkets, pharmacy shops and markets. Love looking at the skin care. I could quite happily spend an hour or two in Walgreens, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Target

What isn’t interesting is department stores same dull blandness world over

I could live in a branch of Publix. I know I'd be bankrupt in months if they opened a store in Britain!