going food shopping

the supermarket we were advised to get a taxi to is a 15 min walk from where we (the jolly fellows) live. It is at the entrance of the urban area. It is not gigantic, however larger than an average supermarket in Italy. The fresh vegetable section is placed at the entrance as in supermarkets in europe, a sign that the marketing literature and experience in this matter has reached a final agreement. Talking about little differences, it would be pointless to ask a specific question such as, "where are the spices?", or the salt, or olive oil. Because food is not organized by genre but by genre and cuisine. Thus one find directions towards mexican, chinese, pudding, tea and coffe, european. This creates lots of redoubling, but possibly space is not a decisive variable. There are at least three spots for vinagre, two for olive oil, four or five of spices, two for fresh orange juice. I think I've seen another doubling like in europe with a gourmet section where you find high quality product that you find again in the general product. Anyway, I got my tahinna, olive oil, one ananas that smells strangely. Legumes where hard to find, only in one place and in very limited choice, garbanzos (chickpeas in spanish), black beans, red beans, white beans, one kind of lentils, that's all, however I admit not having cast a single look to canned products. There are no house appliances or kithen utensils, and no alcohol. The compartimetalization of shopping is a little different.