I was living in the Netherlands and wanted to go to the grocery store. This is harder than you might imagine.
I went to the Albert Heijn in Den Hague right by the H&M in the shopping district. It's closed almost all the time that I could reasonably go there. On the following weekend, I bought some fruit and other stuff and went to the checkout line. First, the person spoke passable English, thanks to the big guy for that one. Once we got beyond her saying something in Dutch, me giving her the "deer in the headlights" and her trying English which served for a few weeks until I learned "sprek u Engels?" So, she asked why we didn't weigh the vegetables. Uh...why would I? Apparently this is standard to weigh your own vegetables in other places which cracks me up because you could just weigh less than your total produce and lower the price of your good without having to look like you are stealing...
I finished and tried paying with my credit card - not possible because they love them some debit cards. I went to bag my own groceries since there's no one to do that for you and there are no bags. I didn't bring one. This was a very sad day.
Has anything like that ever happen to you?
that happened to me in a fabric store in mexico before I spoke spanish, and once in a grocery store in italy too!! there should be a retail section for all of this critical information!
Yes! Only it was a lot more complicated! In China you have to pick out what you want, then go to a separate counter, get a ticket, find yet another counter on another floor, then pay for that ticket, find some random girl who is waiting for you with your stuff in a bag, and then go back to the first floor to begin looking for what you want next, and also, little babies are poohing on the ground.Has this ever happened to you?
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