Diversity in the grocery store

[nlbarber]

Product diversity, that is.

My favorite Publix has been expanding their sections of "ethnic" (not really, but I can't think of an umbrella term for all these) foods. Now the sequence is
British
Indian
mixed Chinese/Japanese
Mexican
Caribbean

Kosher foods are one aisle over.

The British section is the latest--lots of cookies and candies, Bovril, golden syrup, packets of vanilla sugar, a mix of canned goods, and other stuff I can't recall. Quite a grab-bag, in other words, and I wonder how they came up with the mix. Just from requests?

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[nlbarber]

Yeah for press coverage! On the other hand, we're already getting criticism about the California numbers, but you know, we can only do so much to screw data out of those people, so we went with what we had. Oh, well....if we only had a budget, the estimates would get better.

Back to groceries...I really do love the variety I have access to with only short drives around Atlanta. Trader Joes has only been here a few years, but the big chains do try, there's World Market, Whole Foods, and interesting Farmers Markets that are really specialty stores. There are so many immigrant communities here, and they have groceries, and restaurants, and bakeries. There's a little strip shopping center a couple of miles from my house with THREE Ethiopian restaurants in it, plus a Russian deli, and a generic American/Chinese place. Those are the only Ethiopian restaurants I know of in this part of Atlanta--so why are they all in the same shopping center??? 'Tis a puzzlement.