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?

Comments

where is your favorite Publix?

[drunixbrat.livejournal.com]

Just curious--I know where the "kosher" supermarkets are (Toco Hills, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs to some extent, and the Ptree Corners Trader Joe, which has kosher chicken/turkey), but am always interested in other ethnics...

Re: where is your favorite Publix?

[nlbarber]

Oddly enough, it's the one at Northlake, on Henderson Mill. I'm halfway in between Northlake and the kosher Kroger and Publix at Toco, but I'm more often headed in the direction of Northlake.

None of the Northlake ethnic sections have all that much in them compared to BHFM for all Asian and Hispanic, or the DeKalb Farmers Market, or the Indian specialty markets around Lawrenceville Highway, or Taste of Britain for British imports, but the longer their string of different sections gets the more amusing I find it. Especially when they added in the British selections.