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Good 'innit. :)

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I prefer shopping here, because I find the pile em high, sell em cheap warehouse supermarkets in the uk unappealling. I much prefer shopping at the butchers, greengrocers etc and forming a human relationship with the individuals that work there. it makes me enjoy shopping for food, much more than I did in the uk.
this makes, for me at least, the act of being a consumer very pleasant indeed.
personally I don't get a lot of satisfaction in buying bananas for 10p a kilo because Tescos have used their big stick to put some carribean farmer on the bread line. Id rather pay a fair price.

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Are boxing gloves cheaper in the UK or Australia?

Cooler

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You'd better join my bus and don't forget your tin hat :lol:

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you can get hard hats in Bunnings, which is much better than B&Q;)

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Ah, but screwfix have better ones than both of them :p;):rofl:

Actually, when we first got here my OH got his Mum to send over a screwfix catalogue, so that he could go into Bunnings and say I want one of these...half the time he'd ask for something and they'd have no idea what it was :rofl:

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So why did you not do that in Britain:confused:

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didn't have the choice

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had the choice everywhere I have lived

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i didn't. the choice here in local shops, butchers etc is far greater.
probably my only complaint about the uk. people like to shop for food in soul less warehouses

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Bit of a generalisation that I think.

Where I lived in Derbyshire we did not even have a supermarket locally.

Very little choice where I live now.

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A lot of the time I post tongue in cheek, but here I have got my really serious head on.

I would have loved to have kept shopping at my local grocers, bakers and butchers but they all got put out of business by places like Tesco's who opened up stores everywhere and under cut them.

My local grocer was the best guy, so was the butcher (who was also a family friend) and both of them had to close as it cost them more to stay open than they could earn.

This fate is also falling on my MIL who own a gorgeous country pub in Thornton. Brewster are forcing her out of business because she can't buy the beer cheaper than Brewsters sell it. Doesn't matter that they are 3 mile away, they are on the bus route and it's cheaper for the locals to go there on the bus and spend their cash in a theme pub.

I really hope this doesn't happen everywhere, but sadly it's becoming all the more common. Guess you have been lucky G to have escaped all of this, or are you one of the many that think it's great to drink pound a pint beers and buy fruit and veg from Asda for next to nothing? I hope not because this is why this is happening in a lot of places - not just the uK.

I seriously hope that it doesn't happen here :(

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not a generalisation at all. it is well known that big supermarkets killed the wee man in the uk. I pass 4 superb butchers, 2 excellent delis and numerous fruit and veg shops on my way home from work here.
In Edinburgh my nearest butcher was miles over the other side of town, although the beef was nearly as good as here, so I sometimes made the trip at a weekend if I wasn't working

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I have lived in half a dozen towns in the UK and they have all had small retailers.

we had three bakers, two butchers and two grocers in our little Derbyshire town.

the big supermarkets don't seem to have killed all of them.

here we have either woolworths or Coles, one overpriced grocer, One overpriced baker and an overpriced butcher.....not a lot of choice here IME.

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i have lived in 11 towns and cities in the uk and didn't. should have moved to Derbyshire.
the butchers and green grocers here are pretty cheap considering the quality and frankly I don't object to paying a fair price for produce.
It is people looking for bargain basement prices that have let the supermarket giants flourish and kill the corner shop at the same time as holding suppliers to ransom. not good for our long term future imo. incidentally the pub chains are trying to do the same and kill off the great british pub.
poulation is relevant to the supermarkets too. you can rest assured that if the town you lived in was without a supermarket, it was because the profit - cost ratio wasn;t there for them, hence the reason your village was spared