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I think I'm too european to understand this meme
Plastic wrapped baguette??
That's weird as well, but what I meant is in Europe you pack your groceries yourself
This OP picture is from somewhere in Europe. "Till" is the English word, while Americans would say something like cash register or check out counter. And SPAR is a European chain of grocery stores
Fair points!
She's Irish, and has possibly one of the most Irish names I've ever seen.
I'm guessing ROI.
What about food contamination?
what about it?
But in the U.S our food is not fresh enough to be bagged by the customer. It must be wrapped so it can sit out for a considerable duration.
Some places in the UK will ask if you want help packing your bags.
interesting, didn't know that despite having lived in the UK and Ireland for a while
Colruyt insists on their weird "cashier tranfers the items into another cart while scanning and bags them for you while they're at it" strategy. And they do own the Spar brand in Belgium.
Although as franchisees some of the Spar stores keep the regular tills. Unfortunately mine does the weird cart transfer thing, which is much slower, though apparently it deters theft..?
Oh, right.
Maybe we should look into that to reduce unemployment.
The Asian model, create endless useless jobs to make sure everyone can have something to do even if it's just standing in front of a parking entrance to point people in.
So like Walmart greeters
Labor for the sake of it. What an American response.
How else are people going to learn useful life skills such as baguette origami?
David Graeber wants to speak with you
A meme on a folded baguettes getting to bullshit jobs is the dream
At expensive American grocery stores, they have baggers.
At my local Price Chopper they have occasional baggers. It’s definitely not an expensive store.
Expensive?
Exactly what I'm referring to
I'm from the "European country" known as UK and every single major store sells plastic wrapped baguettes. You only see them in paper in the smaller shops
It's a plastic bag with tiny holes in it. These are on the store floor, where people can grab a baguette for themselves. The plastic keeps the braguette relatively safe, and the holes allow moisture to escape, keeping the baguette crispy for the day
Oddly enough, most American supermarkets put every baguette they bake that day (if they bake it that day) in plastic bags. Although in this case, I believe they mean that they broke the baguette in the plastic bag in half so it would fit in the bag with the rest of the groceries.
The meme is also European, from Ireland. That said, I'm more interested which Spar is selling long enough baguettes that they don't fit in a bag. My local shops don't.
I know lidl sell the big baguettes like this
Thanks; I'll try it. I usually get bread and sparkling water there (their produce and meat quality got so bad I switched to Aldi), but I haven't been looking for baguettes yet.
Americans still feeling superior because their country has solved this problem by selling sliced bread.
meh, as if europe had no bread slicing machines in supermarkets
Congrats on getting half the joke.
The other half is that Europeans would not equate a loaf to a baguette.
Imagine buying a presliced baguette tho ahahah