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Can't you carry your infant to the car from the cart park? or did arms evolve beyond that since moving? ;)

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Sorry, I have run out.

I think all the other supermarkets (I'd die before you catch me inside a wholepaycheck) should offer 25% off your total if you come in without your children :nod:

Seems to me the results would be more horrific if you had the children with you when the car hit. At least if they were in the car, they'd have a fighting chance one someone finds them of being OK. If they're with you, then they will be splattered to the four winds too.

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I would like to add that it amazes me too how they are unable to relocate their 'caaaart' back to it's holding place too. They need to put a pound coin in like they do in a lot back home, that soon solves it!! Not sure how well it would work with dollar bills though.

Anyway, one thing I will praise about US Grocery Stores as opposed to UK supermarkets; we're just back home this week, went to Tesco's for a few bits and you get approx 6 inches either side of your car when parked and if next door is askew you are stuffed!! I would love to see some of the americans trying to fit their trucks into them! :)

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Whatever he's droning on about now, I never left my kids alone so I must have worked something out. Probably what you said.

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I'd say the same but they do sell Heinz baked beans, marmite and a good line of English farmhouse cheddar.

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Aldi uses that system, but with quarters. It's always fun when you get there and realise you have no change. I have become an expert in packing stuff into one of those cardboard shelf things the soup is stacked in.

The UK parking spaces did seem rather tight when I was back last year (and I don't have a big car out here either). I also, and I don't know what kind of cultural [i]faux pas[i] I am committing here, prefer the diagonally arranged spaces they have here as well.

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If one parks about three spaces away from the cart corral, which, I may add is where a lot of the carts I saw yesterday were located, I'd imagine it's a 20 second return journey. Hardly time for the kid to die of heat related issues, a chance criminal to break into the car and steal your child, or the local police departments SWAT team to arrest you for child neglect.

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I can get Heinz beans at Meijer (one of those local ones you might not have of course). I once got some really nice English style cheddar out of Walmart, would you believe? Can't remember the name of it, but there was a Union Flag on the wrapping, my son had found it for me. It was a pretty bloody good sharp cheddar.

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Cabot do some very passable Cheddar.

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This is going to start sounding like an episode of Wallace and Grommit pretty soon ... :D

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More cheese, Gromit?

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Cabot? Actually that's pretty good. The one I get at whole foods has little crunchy things in it. Oh and they sell Weetabix. It's simply the nearest place I can get a bunch of British items at once.

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It may have been (also mentioned by Nutek above). I haven't had it since.

The longer I spend time here, the easier it has become for me to go without British items. Until I go back there and overdose on sweets and cheese and that, of course.

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It sounds like you're agreeing with me? :unsure:

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Unfortunately I still have the mindset that I have to eat as many treats as possible as if on holiday.