if your country has small convenience stores looking like this one it's honorary second/third world
one of my best memories from childhood is that when there were Pokemon tazos to be found in Lays chips, I had a deal with the shopowner that she will find the packs of chips with tazos inside (you could feel whether the tazo is inside by touching) and leave them for me and then I will buy them
sadly they're largely gone now
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>if your country has small convenience stores looking like this one it's honorary second/third world
We have shops like this here too, although of course there isn't random products lying on the floor and the floor isn't dirty and stained.
>although of course there isn't random products lying on the floor and the floor isn't dirty and stained.
typical soulless firstie approach
How do I go 15 years back in time.
expansion of Żabka was the worst mistake ever, we lost our whole sovl
>Żabka
>not blaming the Germans with their Lidl
Lidl didn't kill the small convenience stores, especially the village/small town ones (there are no Lidls in places below around 20k inhabitants afaik), it's a different target
>it's a different target
Small shops cannot compete with Lidl/Biedronka, who supply you with the high revenue products.
It's just a capitalism thing. Better supply chains and bigger capital wins.
nah dude, Lidl/Biedronka actually competes with big hypermarkets like Auchan/Carrefour more than small shops. You won't drive 3 km to the nearest Biedronka for buying kaiser rolls and a can of coke. As I said, in small towns there are no supermarkets like Lidl at all. It was Żabka which killed them because it has the same target yet simply better quality, lower prices (due to bigger scale) and more additional services like obtaining parcels or even those hot-dogs
>Pokemon Tazoos
Brings me back to the good old times. It was marketed with Cheetos for us and when Pokemon was peaking all over.
I remember the rarest Tazoos I got were Pikachu and Snorlax. We would trade trazoos until Jenga cards replaced them.
show us the inside of average Indian small store, must be SOVLFUL af
>. You won't drive 3 km to the nearest Biedronka for buying kaiser rolls and a can of coke.
Instead people will drive 10km to Lidl/Biedronka and buy a stock for a week or two.
The cheap, low quantity products cannot bring enough money to make a small shop profitable.
That actually sounds comfy as fuck.
You guys had tazos too?
apparently it's common thirdie experience
Seem like it
We also had pokemon ones
Every neighborhood here has at least two or three pajeets who own similar stores, but mostly sell tobacco and booze.
That's just a regular convenience store
Poles have SOVL
Pic related ominous old stores here
Unfortunately they're disappearing because this is usually a family's business and the children don't want to take the job when their parents get old/die
so you mean they were non-existent before thirdie immigration to Belgium (let's say 40 years ago) or simply were run by native Belgians before?