It bothered me initially when I moved to Ireland the inability to buy in bulk, and the lack of brands compared to a store in Canada. But everyone’s living space is so much smaller and fewer people drive that it makes sense.
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The largest bulk purchase I have made, ever, has been beer and flour. And that’s been from online places in the last month.
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I do love you, my North American friends. But shopping and storage are very much not the same in Europe.
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Also, for some reason that I do not understand, Ireland just does not have access to certain things. For instance, you cannot buy an Instant Pot here. Or at least I haven’t seen any on any sites that sell small appliances.
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And for some reason unbeknownst to me, the UK shops that normally we can get things from just won’t ship certain things. UK Amazon is our amazon too, but a lot of places will not ship to Ireland. Many other stores that are in both countries will have more products in the UK
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And you can’t order those here.
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Again, no one’s fault that this happens (at least not the folks giving advice) I just wish people would stop assuming everything is like North America.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
We're 50 countries in a trenchcoat and ought to know better as well. When i was living in NYC, my mom asked about grocery stores and that's... not really a thing. Not like she meant. In my neighborhood everything was bodegas, and you did your shopping in small trips. Bulk what?
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Replying to @KariDru
Yeah exactly, for places where everyone is living on top of each other, stores are smaller.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
And nobody sells anything to people who don't own cars that they can't feasibly carry.
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Yeah, I walk everywhere because public transit normally is terrible for space. So I gotta be able to lug it home.
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