Your Shopping Priority

[sillysally]

So, when you go shopping, is there one thing that you consider to be the highest priority on your list?

Just for a rest from serious endeavour, such a discussion might prove both interesting and entertaining.

Now list just one priority!

You may make more than one posting, but one item and reason per post, please.

This is a reading and skill testing question.

Regards,

Labelwench

Sugar free items must be sweetened with Splenda. The reason, it tastes better.

[sillysally]

#1 on my food shopping list - instant coffee

That's another priority on my list. It's fast and makes great ice coffee too. I love NesCafe, I get mine in the Latino food section because that's where the big economy size one is. It's gone in about a month and a half.

What brand do you drink?

[sillysally]

Does anyone on this forum have personal knowledge of how plumbing works in zero gravity?

My thoughts are that it cannot be too pleasant performing the most basic and rudimentary functions in such an environment, and the serious aspects of having one of the sanitation facilities dysfunctional will be more than a usual inconvenience, with thirteen people in such close quarters.

I think if we were born in raised in zero gravity we wouldn't have BH's, we would vomit.

[labelwench]

One priority that seems to be coming to the fore in the retail grocery business, concern about plastic bags and packaging.

This spring, our two Loblaws food stores went bag free, or to be more precise, there is now a charge for plastic bags. At the same time, they made available excellent cloth bags and plastic shopping bins for cheap. These reusable means of carrying one's purchases are seeing excellent support and by this means we are diverting a considerable amount of plastic from the landfill.

Additionally, I notice that many products are now being repackaged. Liquid laundry detergent is now considerably more concentrated, which saves on transportation costs and uses less plastic per product. More products are available for purchase from our bulk food section as well, and everthing from candy to condiments has seen repackaging and/or resizing. Small increments, taken in quantity, can have sizable effect. More recycled materials are being used in containers also.

The consumer has far more power than they often realize. By the choices we make, we can influence even large corporations to act more responsibly. The organic sector has grown noticeably, and with growth, prices have been coming closer to those charged for previous standard products.

Changing demographics also have different dietary wants and needs, and with this in mind, Loblaws has acquired an entire Asian marketing chain and it's warehouses.

From one perspective, one could argue that such changes are all about the money.

From my perspective, I see these changes as an effort to address the shopping priorities of the customer.

Yes, it is easy to blame many things on big business, yet I would suggest that we all share in the blame for accepting the status quo and not making our concerns known by exercising our franchise of where we spend our money.

Regards,

Labelwench

[labelwench]

Shopping. The underpinning of the GDP, or gross domestic product, one of those mysterious markers by which we determine how well the economy is doing.

Interesting, that for all the time that the economy has been doing well, people seem to have been doing less so, and the burden has been unequally distributed.

So, who is to blame?

In the developed world, I'd have to saw 'WE' are, myself included.

'WE' are the ones who choose where to spend our hard earned coin, and in retrospect, such thought never even occurred to me in past. Conditioned to trust in the wisdom of the collective mind and instruments of society, one assumes that those foods and commodities offered in the shops are 'safe', leaving one only to choose by their budget and preference of attributes.

Country of origin, human rights of the workers, animal rights, health impacts environmental impacts, possible contamination, packaging and transportation, disposal of packaging and product at end of service.

Didn't even know what one didn't know.

My shopping lists are getting shorter, and hopefully healthier for myself, the planet, and when all is said and done, a sustainable economy.

[labelwench]

While at an automated bank teller the other day, a woman was teaching her young children how to use the machine.

As the transaction neared completion, she was coaching them through the process, after making a cash withdrawal.

"When it asks if you would like a receipt, press 'No'," she instructed. "We don't want to waste any paper."

Those children were getting an excellent lesson, indeed.

[SB_UK]

Shopping. The underpinning of the GDP, or gross domestic product, one of those mysterious markers by which we determine how well the economy is doing.

Interesting, that for all the time that the economy has been doing well, people seem to have been doing less so, and the burden has been unequally distributed.

So, who is to blame?

In the developed world, I'd have to saw 'WE' are, myself included.

'WE' are the ones who choose where to spend our hard earned coin, and in retrospect, such thought never even occurred to me in past. Conditioned to trust in the wisdom of the collective mind and instruments of society, one assumes that those foods and commodities offered in the shops are 'safe', leaving one only to choose by their budget and preference of attributes.

Country of origin, human rights of the workers, animal rights, health impacts environmental impacts, possible contamination, packaging and transportation, disposal of packaging and product at end of service.

Didn't even know what one didn't know.

My shopping lists are getting shorter, and hopefully healthier for myself, the planet, and when all is said and done, a sustainable economy.

My shopping list is no longer.

Simply necessities or repairs to necessities.

Making fuel out of old newspapers, window cleaning solutions out of cheap vinegar, children's toys out of wood and old cardboard, anti-perspirant out of kitchen cupboard bicarb, children's bubble solution out of bathroom cupboard glycerol
... ... ... as the first 5 which spring to mind.

... ... have an idea, spend 5 minutes researching the idea on the Internet

... ... ... and we're away.

~*~

We're privileged observers on an end to books, DVDs, games, CDs, paper money and coins, wired telephones, the HiFi, newspapers, magazines
... ... ... as the first 10 which spring to mind.

- all losing out to their purely electronic (green) equivalents.

[labelwench]

My shopping list is no longer.

Simply necessities or repairs to necessities.

Making fuel out of old newspapers, window cleaning solutions out of cheap vinegar, children's toys out of wood and old cardboard, anti-perspirant out of kitchen cupboard bicarb, children's bubble solution out of bathroom cupboard glycerol
... ... ... as the first 5 which spring to mind.

... ... have an idea, spend 5 minutes researching the idea on the Internet

... ... ... and we're away.

~*~

We're privileged observers on an end to books, DVDs, games, CDs, paper money and coins, wired telephones, the HiFi, newspapers, magazines
... ... ... as the first 10 which spring to mind.

- all losing out to their purely electronic (green) equivalents.
Originally posted by SB__UK

Except for the bubble bath, you and I have the same ideas, SB__UK.

When we lived in remote northern B.C., we used to carve small boats from the bark of mature balsam poplar, and then carve and affix a rudder, keel and sail. Any cardboard, paper or wrapping that we had taken into the remote area was set aside for reuse, as such was not immediately available.

We also carved propellors for windvanes, which required some practice to achieve proper balance and pitch. In order to have it spin freely, we needed to burn a hole through the wood with a nail, heated in the coals of the wood fire, and with leather glove and plier, applied repeatedly until the hole had been achieved and the propeller would spin freely in a slight breeze. The propellor was now affixed to a length of aspen and a tail rudder added, so that it would spin to catch the wind. A second hole was now burned through to serve as a pivot point for the body of the windvane.

We would nail the windvanes to the peak of the cabin roof and compare which models were most efficient, amd then set about improving on our efforts. Every cabin we ever occupied had several of these windvanes left behind, and folks travelling those parts commented on them for many years after, so durable were our simple toys, and educational too.

Regards,

Labelwench

[SB_UK]

Conditioned to trust in the wisdom of the collective mind and instruments of society, one assumes that those foods and commodities offered in the shops are 'safe', leaving one only to choose by their budget and preference of attributes.

Country of origin, human rights of the workers, animal rights, health impacts environmental impacts, possible contamination, packaging and transportation, disposal of packaging and product at end of service.

Didn't even know what one didn't know.

My shopping lists are getting shorter, and hopefully healthier for myself, the planet, and when all is said and done, a sustainable economy.

I completely agree -
- the realization that we can't be sure whether our purchases are supporting some sort of poor behaviour has driven me into an actual incapacity to buy.

The very small benefit which a thing might offer is hugely counterbalanced by the worry that the purchase is supporting some form of unacceptable behaviour.

A tricky place to be -
because there's no way of ever knowing

- and yet the fear maintains -
naturally
entailing
that one's hard earned dollar rests untouched in some bank account some place, working hard for us night and day earning 0% interest as the cost of living increases clear for all to see.

Clear for all to see apart from the inflationary figure indices people who don't appear to be able to entertain the idea that inflationary figures are individual-specific and based upon the specific spectrum of items which one needs or chooses to spend one's money upon.

[SB_UK]

Except for the bubble bath, you and I have the same ideas, SB__UK.

Bubble bath

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