Today we traveled from Paris to Les Mesnuires where we will be skiing for a week. As I have mentioned before (blog #190) the fact that Fianna now has an electric car means that we travel by train for long journeys and if necessary rent a car to finish our journey. As we were not able to bring food from Paris we decided we would do some basic shopping before going up the mountain to avoid the outrageous prices of the ski station. As it happens there was an Aldi in Albertville (the last town before you start to go up). Aldi is a discount store a concept which started in Germany and is expanding. Although discount stores have an image of poor quality this is actually far from the truth. The reason these stores have such competitive prices is that they are focused on a limited number of basic products and they do not stock multiple versions of the same product. You can only get one kind of shampoo or butter or spaghetti in a discount store. This means that they can ensure their suppliers give them good quality at rock bottom prices. Discount stores are actually anti consumerist in many ways.
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