>Polebro friend visits Italy >At one point complains to me that in Italy "there are no stores" >what.jpg >He explains to me how in Poland at every corner there's a shop that sells every kind of stuff, and Italy apparently lacks them and it's inconvenient when you need stuff
I think he referred to things like minimarkets (there are actually some, typically owned by immigrants) and convenience stores like those in Japan (?). Come to think of it, he probably has a point.
Where do you live? Calabria Saudita? Even here in Sardshitholinia there are stores in every street
Carson Nelson
Poland is Latino
Carson Peterson
Why are polish so consumerist
Caleb Martin
I wish we had convenience stores like the ones in Japan
Aiden Brooks
Yes. And they don't close at 18:00. God, I hate it when you're in a large European city and can't buy something simple because every goddamn store is closed.
Adrian Turner
what is stores
William Foster
woah, poland truly has everything
Evan Morris
who cares
Sebastian Miller
yeah we have small convenience stories everywhere, but they belong to big market chains nowadays
I see Żabka is even shown on English wikipedia as one of main examples of a convenience store along with the Japanese one so I guess it must be an exclusively Polish thing in Europe
OP here, that's genuinely interesting Polebro, thank you You too
Justin Martin
Poles just love running small shops.
In the UK you also have a small Polish shop on every street
Christian Barnes
I was actually quite suprised how hard it sometimes to find a covenience store in Europe (I'm not even talking about it being opened 24/7). I always thought that if we got those then progressive Europe should obviously have them too. Nope. Here it's like at least 3 or 4 major store chains covering the whole city and working at least til 23:00.
Nolan Hall
>Calabria Saudita kek
Henry Peterson
>progressive Europe should obviously have them too.
You just have a different understanding of 'progress'. Europeans think free time (of the shop's employees) is more important than consumerist needs
Jose Kelly
when I moved to Italy you could starve on a Sunday because no stores were open. Occasionally one of the larger supermarkets would joyfully announce with big banners that they would stay open on some given Sunday. But in recent years I feel like the crisis hit them hard and now big chains are open on Sunday. Small local stores though still have ridiculous business hours like 09:00-12:00, huge lunch break and then maybe 15:00-19:00
Colton Cooper
You were so close, Europe, so close...
Christopher Peterson
>live in Luxembourg >get out of work (yes I work a lot lol), it's 8 PM already >can't buy food anywhere, even in the middle of the capital, because everything closed a long time ago
REEEEEEEEEEEE WHY DO I PAY €1,400 FOR A STUDIO IF I LIVE LIKE THIS
GIVE US CONVENIENCE STORES LIKE IN JAPAN PLS
Carter Moore
>REEEEEEEEEEEE WHY DO I PAY €1,400 FOR A STUDIO IF I LIVE LIKE THIS
That's actually very little considering how high wages there are
Andrew Flores
There are stores all over the place. The tiny neighbourhood ones have generic names that you always forget. Then there are big brand minimarkets, and large supermarkets. These are local ones like Konzum and Plodine, and German ones like Spar, Kaufland and Lidl.
Larger brands often work until 22:00 or 23:00, like Spar. Most smaller stores work until 20:00 or 21:00. There's also a small convenience store in my neighbourhood that works 0-24 every day.
Isaac Lopez
Taxes are very heavy though, and even more so if you're single and not a civil servant.
Once you paid rent, taxes, and basic expenses (nothing discretionary), you have nothing left.
