Grocery shopping in London is like grocery shopping in Florida just before a hurricane. There are TONS of people, regardless of the time of day you go. You can barely move around the store. Perhaps that’s why their “trollies” (shopping carts) have wheels that allow you to move in any direction, not just forward and backward, but sideways as well. Otherwise you’d never be able to maneuver the aisles.
In most grocery stores, you have to rent the trolley with a £1 coin that fits into a slot on the trolley handlebar, which is then attached via a key and chain to another trolley. The only way to unlock the key is to insert a coin. When you are finished shopping, you return your trolley to the “trolley park,” insert the key into another trolley, and out pops your coin.
At checkout time, you have to bag your own. Always. They certainly don’t hire people to bag groceries for you. And the cashiers get to sit down, unlike those in America who have to stand on their feet all day.
British grocery products are also quite different from American ones, but I’ll cover that another day.
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