Grocery Stores

So the grocery stores here are incredibly different. EVERYTHING IS IN JAPANESE! What the eff?! The food is really different too. Aisles of rice and rice products, huge meat/fish sections, miso base and noodles, small bread sections, random $.99 stores inside the grocery stores.

Another thing is the grocery cart here. So you grab a cart and the main cart part is only sunken in a little bit. What you’re supposed to do is grab baskets and put them in the different sections of the cart. i.e. where you would normally put stuff, and the baby seat.

After you pay, you are given 2 or 3 plastic bags. The first time I was looking at the clerk with the bags clenched in my fists and thinking, what do you want me to do with these bitch? YOU HAVE TO BAG YOUR OWN GROCERIES! Not cool. Not cool. Mostly because it takes awhile to sort and a line starts up at the bagging counter and it gets awkward with people thinking “What is this guy doing? Get your thumb out of your ass and just bag the damn groceries.” BUT YOU HAVE TO STICK THE COLD STUFF TOGETHER. AND YOU CAN’T CRUSH THE EGGS OR THE BREAD. AND YOU HAVE TO PUT THE BUG SPRAY IN A SEPARATE BAG.

Good grief Charlie Brown