StatusNomadicus
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if you can get home delivery/envio then it's nice. only Disco/Jumbo/Cencosud (one location) will deliver to me where i'm at, and stuff my dog eats like Beef Heart isn't sold online, though it is in-store. so, even less selection. but without a car, lugging everything in a backpack (especially liters of milk and beer) ain't worth saving 1000 Pesos to deliver, plus a couple bucks in driver tip, twice a week to get fresh veggies/meat.
all these cows, and no milk. my favorite satchets are Manfrey 1L fresh whole milk (3%), when i can find them. lowest was 600 Pesos last week, sometimes the Casanto brand is 950 Pesos, and the Serenisma expensive brand with the cow pictures on it is 1200-1500 Pesos. when milk is cheaper in the UK than water, it leads me to believe that there are some MAJOR barriers to efficiency in Argentina with dairy. and i've NEVER seen raw milk sold anywhere, even health food stores. i also hope this will change with deregulation.
help everyone out and refuse to pay for them! as long as people are buying the cheaper brands or only on-sale stuff, the prices will go down. most people aren't interested in changing their habits even a little, since food is still pretty cheap overall, but i try to 'vote with my dollar' ... so when Andes one-liter beers are 1700 Pesos i buy a bunch, and when they are 2500 Pesos i drink Quilmes, Imperial, etc. instead.
yes, earlyretirement has mentioned the 'generational wealth' aspect of Argentina. families seem to be VERY connected with their members, and everything works in little mini-tribes just like it probably always has in history. very different from the USA where most average people are expected to be self-sufficient and on their own when they're an adult (of course the upper-class families pay for 200k college, co-sign on loans, etc.)
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