No, I am not planning to give any health advice in this blog if that’s what you are thinking 🙂
I visit supermarkets quite often like all people do. My grocery list is quite simple per se, stick to natural food, avoid processed food however once I am done shopping I just walk around in the various sections for my amusement, listening to my iPod, singing dancing when no one is there or looking lol. I am aware you may wonder “Devina, really?? of all places you found supermarkets for your amusement!!”
What amuses me is the huge variety of food items available. Even for something as simple as a tub of yogurt, there would be 2 full racks of different types of yogurt. Thankfully, I am not that indecisive (except when I have to order food in restro’s) but I wonder how difficult it must be for indecisive people to choose from so much of variety. Think about the docile husbands married to picky ladies and their fear of buying wrong type of yogurt or a bunch of eggs and then being scolded by the lady of the house, I have seen my dad undergoing that quite often 🙂
I read somewhere “supermarket is a veritable jungle, set with snares and traps designed to lure even the most observant shopper into buying whatever that heavenly smelling thing is, or lulling us into a contented stupor so we linger longer in the aisles”
It’s true we all know that we end up buying at least one or two items outside our grocery buying list.
As much as I do appreciate the innovative thinking of people from food industry and supermarket business I think we are over-doing it. The food wastage stats are quite high in these supermarkets and these supermarkets indulge in interesting psyche tactics to increase their sales, though I understand and agree why should they not, they have got to make money, it is the consumers who have to control their indulgences, this rampant consumerism and hoarding up, smarten up, do mindful consumption, not mindless.
-D