Comment on Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers

• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not in Baden-Württemberg. You’d have to go to France.

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s a hypermarket in Rottweil, BW:

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    But yeah, it was difficult finding an adequately horrible-looking hypermarket in BW, indeed! Most of them managed to look kind if niedlich :) I mean, most hypermarkets in Baden-Württenberg are located in surroundings such as this one:
    Aerial Photo of a Kaufland in Tübingen, tightly surrounded by residential housing.

    Even though that house is super ugly, the surroundings make a surprisingly big difference in the overall atmosphere!

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• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah just giant slabs of concrete with a huge building filled with stuffs… same thing really.

  maybe I just don’t like this modern world lol

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they are much less prominent in Germany than in USA!

    And typically Mediterranean people prefer buying their groceries in small corner shops that usually have some vegetables on shelves on the street in front of the shop.
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    • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeees, I want to buy from someone, not something. It drives community which feels nonexistent

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      • PinkInSlippers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is so true. There is a surreal feel of knowing where your money is going. I love buying at the market here in Malawi than in these slightly more formal shops. The till attendants do greet but yeah they lack the enthusiasm of a vendor selling their merchandise.

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