i love when people from places i don't know about make inside jokes about their own country or specific cities or places in it bc it feels like i am taking a peek into what life must be like there
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@mynameistillian This fag has never seen complete Żabka saturation.
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@flesh zabka saturation??? wtf is even going on in poland
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@mynameistillian Legitimate answer: Żabka is a franchise grocery store chain that effectively subsumed *a lot* of small business stores. Ergo, in some cities, it is absurdly common to see a Żabka. At points, you can have multiple within line-of-sight of each other.
@flesh @mynameistillian I'm reminded of the two Jumbo supermarkets in the shopping area in my town (Rosmalen), which are *almost* in each other's line of sight.
What's more bizarre is that no acquisitions were involved. The second one was newly built while the first one was *already* a Jumbo.
The story goes that it's a revenge action for a competitor (Albert Heijn) snubbing their promised spot in a new shopping center further north through a backhanded deal. The idea is that by occupying both supermarket-zoned buildings here, AH cannot establish a competing presence.
@flesh @mynameistillian The Dutch supermarket world is kind of weird 🙃 Jumbo (which is one of the biggest chains here) also got raided because the CEO was suspected of involvement in major organized crime.
Or how there's like, a single central purchasing organization (Superunie) that basically every non-dominant supermarket chain participates in, leading to ~every supermarket having virtually identical store-brand products but with different packaging.
@joepie91 @mynameistillian What the fuck