Is it just me that likes looking around French hypermarkets?
I know what I'll find if I wander around a UK supermarket which is why I try to avoid the experience. It's dull, boring and predictable.
French hypermarkets on the other hand are a wonderland of the new and interesting.
The food is an obvious difference, although for the life of me I couldn't find sour cream when I was looking. But for me it's all the other stuff.
We're looking for a fuse (mini 20A) for the car, see Day 1 and a French hypermarket is just the kind of place that would have something like that. Granted in the ones we've been in so far, that part of the display has been out of stock but we live in hope.
Today I saw a baguette cutting breadboard. It was a slotted breadboard with a hinged, permanently attached bread knife. Completely ridiculous, but amazing.
There were lovely china "things" which were the shape of a six inch high tumbler and which were intended for hot drinks I think even though they didn't have handles. I thought they would be perfect for ice cream sundaes.
There was bag I could easily have bought, a jug that I could have slipped into the trolley, some table linen that I could have taken home and a bowl that would have been great to take camping.
There were many aisles I didn't get to explore because as soon as I suggest I want to wander and browse, Dave's eyes roll and I know he doesn't approve. It's just not his thing so I just get away with a brief glimpse in the time it takes for Dave to get through the checkout. It simply isn't long enough.
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