• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    What do you mean? I’m not sure I know of any “local shops” or what that means precisely or how that’s different from a supermarket exactly.

    To me there’s grocery stores like Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s and the rest of these seem to be in line with that.

    Do you mean like corner shops/stores like an off-licence?

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      8 days ago

      A local shop for local people

      They probably mean some local chain or small independent store. Usually more expensive and have fewer items though.

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          7 days ago

          Yep, the small town butcher, bakery, etc.

          Where we used to live, I could walk into town and buy local meat, organic veg and a warm fresh loaf of bread and it wasn’t that much more expensive than the (3!) supermarkets in town.

          Considering I didn’t need fuel, then maybe it’s cost neutral.

          The main difference? Well, much better quality food and the lives of those families…

          It’s really just down to our choice to drive the price (read: quality / nutrition) down to the lowest possible… or not.

          Just sayin’…

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            7 days ago

            So not really a store, but a specialist shop like e.g. a butchers? How is that going to replace a supermarket? I don’t think I’ve seen one of those really ever tbqh, not even in rural small towns I lived in across England like Guildford.