Supermarkets Quotes

“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.”
― Larry McCleary MD, Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly

“Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia. It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Hear my wife speak of John Lewis and you might picture a stately pleasure dome of ornamental cascades and hanging gardens, staffed by muscular Centaurs who know all there is to know about kitchenware and soft furnishings. But really it's just a big hall full of wanky chrome fridges.”
― Tim Moore, You are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain

“You're an unemployed bum. Should you live in that Finnish city by the lake with the S-market and K-market? Or how about that other Finnish city by the lake with the S-market and K-market? Finnish cities are all so very different!”
― Phil Schwarzmann, How to Marry a Finnish Girl

“Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.”
― Don DeLillo

“The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as they return to earth.”
― Christopher Riche Evans, Mind In Chains

“But what is the point of buying vegetables in plastic bags? Everything from the supermarket smells of plastic. Everything from the market smells like it’s supposed to.”
― Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires

“and for every year I age I see at least 3 new
TESCOs
“OPEN 2-
4 HOURS
A
DAY”
which is a lie
(cause they all shut @ 5 on Sunday).”
― Andy Carrington, The Daily Fail

“I thought it made her happy to help out. You know, the way some people claim to like picking up litter or helping the homeless or standing outside supermarkets trying to get me to sign petitions.”
― William Rabkin, A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read