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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Cabot do some very passable Cheddar.

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

More cheese, Gromit?

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.

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.

It sounds like you're agreeing with me?

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