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Eugene and Bob, I checked Walmart online here, and they show 2 listings of the exact same product. It appears if you can find it, and pick it up in the store, its $6.98 here, BUT if you order the other listing, its sold and shipped from a company called DC Brands for $28.98. Go figure...
 
From a friend - this was the paper aisle at Target, Saturday afternoon. 

 

I haven't had any trouble finding various grocery items, I did an online order for pick-up with HyVee on Friday night.  Picked up Saturday morning and all the items I'd ordered were in stock.  The pick-up routine was well executed and quick.  Will probably try to keep my list organized and do this going forward.  It was nice to have the shopping quick and done.  

 

 

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Re: Chili Powder---perhaps a temporary supply issue or a supplier change--I had a similar problem with saffron--Costco has Spanish saffron usually quite reasonably, but was out in September, and they claimed it had been deleted from their system when I went to customer service. Lo and behold 2 weeks ago they got it back in stock...
 
re; chili powder

is ceyene pepper, cumin, and paprika. Thats it! You can make it. When I cook Mexican, I also add some oregano to the dish. For nachos, I also add a bit of garlic. We like the Herdez brand salsa roja, verde, chipotle crema salsa, and cilantro verde lime crema salsas too. I always add lime juice to guacamole'.
 
I order groceries every week, they get delivered. Most things come in a crate. The delivery man takes an empty crate with him and I get another crate with the groceries. I have a cart where the crate fits onto. The delivery man puts the crate on the cart and I can take the cart into the kitchen. No hassle with carrying the stuff to the kitchen.

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When I cook Mexican

Just made Carne Asada Sunday. Marinated the flank steak overnight in lime juice, chili powder, granulated garlic, cumin and oregano. Yum!

 

Went to Market Basket yesterday and didn't notice any shortages, including the paper aisle. Plenty of people going the wrong way in the one-way aisles though! LOL!

 

Chuck
 
At Sam's club, I have always been able to get the box of cheap Pom tissue.  It's very thin, meant for commercial use, but is cheaper than the thick ones and I don't ever have to worry about the main sewer being clogged.  
 
"Most are under worktop"

Mike,

I don't know where you got the idea that most fridges are under the counter in Europe, but that is certainly not my impression. Perhaps in the United Kingdom, I don't know that, but certainly not in the Netherlands. The best sold fridges here are the bottom mount models in silver or white. At least when it comes to freestanding fridges. In most kitchens the fridges are built in, I think in those kitchens the bottom mount models are very popular too.
 
Undercounter fridges are not very common here. Even if you'd a small apartment, they'd be avoided like the plague as they're just too small.

I get the impression American views of Europe are from cheap holiday rentals with 'landlord specials' or tiny Parisian apartments.

The default fridge is something like one of these : https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-appliances/refrigeration-appliances/fridge-freezers/ - They're taller (up to 2m (about 6ft6) and occupy similar floor space to a standard European washing machine, usually with the freezer at the bottom and the fridge at eye level.

Something like this Bosch Serie 6 would be fairly typical: https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-ap...6-freestanding-fridge-freezer-kge49aicag.html

-- full brochure https://www.bosch-home.ie/productli...ge-freezers-with-freezer-at-bottom/KGE49AICAG

Plenty of similar size and layout fridges at lower prices too - Bosch is an upper mid level brand and the stainless steel finish puts the price up considerably.

Side-by-Side US-ish style are pretty popular and would tend to dominate the display space in most appliance stores these days:

https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-ap...iances/american-side-by-side-fridge-freezers/

If you want to seriously max, something like this Smeg is a European side-by-side (with ice dispenser internal) https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-ap...ican-fridge-freezer-fq60x2peai.html#gallery-1

You can see they're quite different to US designs, but they're not exactly what you'd call petite.

Then you've tall full height larder fridges: https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-appliances/refrigeration-appliances/larder-fridges-and-freezers/

Larder freezers: https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-appliances/refrigeration-appliances/larder-fridges-and-freezers/

If you're into storing a lot of frozen food chest freezers are also still fairly common. They were a huge thing in the 1970s, but you'll often find one chugging away in someone's garage, utility room etc.

https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-ap...-freestanding-chest-freezer-co302e-white.html

You've got under-counter models, but they''re not exactly popular: https://www.harveynorman.ie/home-ap.../undercounter-and-countertop-fridge-freezers/
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I guess I

see them a lot in films. Usually a small kitchen. Even Mrs. Bucket in Keeping up appearances had one, and she had a suburban home. Otherwise if it's a larger or a country house, then yes they have large column style counter depth or American type SxS refrigerators. Here many have a second refrigerator or freezer in the basement or garage. Same for cooking ranges with ovens. Middle eastern backgrond families especially. Even upholstered furniture in the garage, with a nice cocktail table.
They like to smoke the hooka out there. Many are profusely spotless. Sealed epoxied floors, and the shoes all lined up on the step into the house, or on shelves where they remove them before going inside.
 
Went to both Hy-Vee Savage and Lund's/Byerly's PL to

Found most everything to be in stock with few exceptions. Of course that changes on a daily basis depending on what shows up on the trucks.
Both stores had their salad bars and dining areas shut down in accordance with the lockdown. L&B was better stocked overall. I saw a large number of staff in both stores filling orders for pick up and delivery.
Hy-Vee is limiting paper goods and cleaning supplies to one each. I did not go down that aisle @ Lund's and Byerly's but at a glance theirs looked better stocked.
WK78
 
Sorry for being off-topic.

 

 

Back in the '80's undercounter refrigerators were pretty common in West Germany. I remember being so surprised when I saw one for the first time. That along with solid disk electric elements on stoves. I thought those were so cool, until I had to cook on them. They took forever to heat up. Back then, people were still mostly buying food for just a few days or a week at most. Frozen food was still in it's infancy. Towards 1989 I started going into appliance stores in Germany and indeed, the switch was on towards larger refrigerators. The ubiquitous narrow, tall, units with the freezer on the bottom. I also remember seeing American General Electric side by side refrigerators for sale. Funny, they were considered luxury status appliances back then. Fast forward to the 2000's in Spain and I have not seen one undercounter refrigerator. Everyone has the tall slim models and American style freezer on the top models are also pretty popular. Large, side by sides are still considered premium refrigerators, but now most of the brands are European. My sister-in-law has an American Whirlpool side by side with water and ice through the door. A feature never used because water tastes awful in Barcelona. My husband grew up with a Frigidaire in Spain, but it was an European model manufactured in France.

 

Here's a fun fact. Because of the tall, slim refrigerators, most of the bottles are tall and slim too.

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Nick— I notice the same thing at our small HyVee in Windom whenever I’m there early in the morning (7:00-8:30): most workers are racing through the store with carts filling orders for pickup.

My nephew’s daughter (in her mid 20s) found herself temporarily unemployed when Ciao Bella had to shut down again due to no inside dining. She found work almost immediately as a personal shopper/delivery person. The small business—don’t recall the name—allowed her to choose the area of Mpls. she wanted to work in, so she chose what she knew to be a rather upscale neighborhood and is making great money in tips.[this post was last edited: 11/29/2020-07:28]
 
@ultramatic

The one thing I would say though Europe isn't as homogenous as the US, particularly when it comes to food and cooking. We've many of the same appliances and manufacturers but things get configured differently in different kitchens and countries.

Also the % in apartments vs houses is a national variation. For example only 4% of Irish households are apartment/condo based compared to quite high % in say Spain or parts of Germany and much higher the further east you go.

Frozen food was a big deal here probably peaking in the 1970s when it was all the range. You'd freezer centre stores selling frozen food, supermarkets had very extensive frozen food sections and home freezing was all the range. There were even books about it.

It wasn't unusual to find huge chest or larder freezers tucked away in garages, ends of kitchens or even in the garden shed.

As things moved towards a foodier outlook frozen food became a lot more about french and chilled in the 90s and onwards and you start to see the growth of 2/3 fridge 1/3 freezer space either top and bottom or side by side.

As for Mrs Bucket, part of the joke was that her house was "in fill" between the much larger home owned by Liz and her brother - it's probable that Liz had a far bigger fridge which she never even thought twicw about as opposed to Hyasinth's high quality, bespoke, bijoux model, deluxe and far superior model, as approved by the best chefs.

Hyasinth's in-fill home:

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