[Leica] [OM] PESO: food shopping in France

[Philippe]

Absolutely right on all counts Nathan is.

Chris, scroll down and find the table with the rate of equipment of French households in 2009.
http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?ref_id=T11F062

BTW, I'm one of thievery few percents who do not own a TV set - my choice.

OTT: I was surpassed back in 1984 when I discovered that supermarkets didn't supply plastic bags for the grocery and had a second attendant at every till in charge of stuffing paper bags with the groceries. I then found that so third world. 
Yet, my opinion has changed I think my country would fare better were students and unemployed people allowed to find this kind of menial jobs these days …

Amities
Philippe

Le 31 juil. 2016 à 19:29, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a écrit :

> Well, things are different now, people own the same appliances that you do in the US. The choices to limit parking in the center of town and to do away with plastic bags is a conscious choice to help the environment, not a sign of material deprivation.
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>> On 31 Jul 2016, at 19:08, Chris Trask <christrask at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>    Even though I was quite young at the time, I still recall the weekly excursions to the open market in Orleans.  At that time, very few French citizens owned refrigerators, and ours was converted from the US 120V/60Hz mains to the French power mains, which was very common.  We had no TV, just radio (AFRTS), and despite the cold war drama that was taking place life was slow, orderly, and quite pleasant.
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>>    <<considerable snipping>>
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>>> After some more shopping, Francis and Véronique are waiting for the tram 
>>> with their purchases. There is very little parking near the market, so 
>>> most people use the excellent public transport to get there. Also, notice 
>>> the roll-on bag. Plastic bags for groceries are now banned in France, so 
>>> it is essential to bring your own. This is sustainable food shopping in 
>>> every sense of the word:
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>> Chris
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