Basically you want what came before supermarkets
I miss those, when I was small we had a local store that did that for all meat products. You just said X amount of bacon. Instead of buying a million separately packaged packs that barely last 1 family breakfast. Or well, going out of my way to hit up lidl, because they’re like the only ones selling bigger packs.
Now don’t get me wrong, butcher counters still exist, but they’re rare and many are expensive hipster shit.
In the Germanland many if not most supermarkets have counter for meat, fish and cheese
Same in the US… Unless you’re in a food desert where the “supermarket” is a Dollar Tree or Dollar General.
Regular markets
You could really order just like 3 stalks of celery? They didn’t force you to buy the whole bunch?
Many markets used a barter system, some even used Silent bartering so it was pretty easy to purchase only what you wanted
I’m not single, and I’ve never in my life finished an entire pack of grocery store grapes. And they are NOT fucking cheap. I haven’t bought them in fuckin’ years…
Edit: Oh… Wow. I now remember watching a weird movie about Jack the Ripper and thinking “how is he luring these girls with grapes?!” I guess we’re back to the 1800’s now…
Holy shit, I love grapes. I usually snip off part of a bunch, rinse it, and have it with my lunch. Nice way to finish the meal and cleanse the palate with something sweet.
A half loaf of bread, please.
That is a thing already.
I haven’t seen it in my area. I very rarely eat bread, but now and then I just want a couple slices.
Freeze it. I grew up upper middle class, so the idea of freezing bread was mildly repugnant. Now I’m poor as fuck, and I can promise it doesn’t make the slightest difference. Thaws quickly too.
Oh man, I thought it was middle class to freeze bread!
We’d buy nice bread from the store, organic/no preservatives, so it starts to told mold in 3-5 days unless you freeze it.
I do the same thing when I want bread I just throw it in the air fryer for a couple of minutes and it is good to go
My freezer is tiny, only enough for some frozen veg. I don’t wanna take up space with bread.
You can ask for this in every supermarket or bakery in Austria.
While this is a thing (I’m from the US), the one I found COSTS MORE THAN A WHOLE LOAF. Can’t win 😔
For grapes, since they’re sold by the pound you can just take some of the grapes from the bag and place them into another bag of the same veriety if it’s too many
A colmado on every street, please.
I’ve had this idea before. I named the fictional business “Spoiled Bachelor”
