Supermarket Choice:
Supermarket was like a large store that sells food as well as things for hygiene or sometimes appliances, furniture or even clothing if they were part of a bigger malls. If I were to have 5 minutes of time for a shop all you can, I would prefer to shop on Ultramega Supermarket which is where my family buys our groceries when we need to prepare food for parties and sell stuff for our store. It was a wholesale and retail supermarket which means while they are selling products at large quantities, they are also selling stuff to general consumers. The retail price on this supermarket were cheaper compared to other markets near us but buying wholesale will get you more discount. Its just that this supermarket does not have meat and fish section as well as fruit and vegetable section so you need to check for a different market if you were looking for those.
Before the Timer Starts:
If I only will use my hands to get the things that I want to buy at the supermarket and I only have 5 minutes to do that, then I would just waste the opportunity for the 5 minutes shop all you can so when I get there, the first thing I would do is to secure the carts. Just like most supermarkets, the carts on Ultramega can be compressed together to save space but can store many items on an individual cart. I would get at least 5 if not 10 of those carts because you would never know how much items you can get and since they were lined together, you only need to push them to where you want to go.
Five Minutes? Let's Do This!
As I said before, Ultramega was a Wholesale supermarket so while they do have products that are displayed on shelves for general consumers, their wholesale products were on boxes direct from the suppliers. The box were placed at the top most of the shelves which would require you a ladder to climb since the shelves were taller than average person but since the items were stored on boxes, they were easier to get rather than taking the items on shelves. Thus would allow me to save more time and make filing the carts that I brought full of items more possible.
The first thing that I will grab will be the canned goods such as canned fish, canned meat, canned foods and canned vegetable which as long as they were properly stored, these canned goods would last for years so even if I were able to get many of these, I will not have to worry of them being spoiled. They do not also required to be refrigerated and a room with room temperature would be enough to store them.
The next thing I would grab would be rice and pasta. As an Asian man, rice is the staple food for us. Grabbing 2 sacs of rice weighing 50 kilos would be enough for 1 cart. I would also grab some boxes of pasta to sometimes alternate with rice and together with some of those canned goods, I can make some impromptu recipes. Both of these also does not required refrigeration and has long shelf life.
If I have spare time left, this time, I will go to the condiments section and rather than the boxes, I would just go and grab whatever is on the shelves since you only need to put a small amount of them to the food you were cooking so even a small bottle of soy sauce for example would last for a long time.
Conclusion
In conclusion, If I have 5 minutes of time to go shop on a supermarket, I will choose to buy on a wholesale supermarket so I can get things on big quantities and what I will buy are mainly food which have long shelf life so I will not waste them plus whoever my sponsor will be able to save some money. If I was able buy lots of the products that I mentioned above, then I would not need to worry so much about food.
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To be honest it's really hard for me to choose which one I should pick from a supermarket because I don't have huge knowledge about groceries. I will pick each item which seems interesting and important to me and at the same time it should be visible in front of my eyesight.
If you are not knowledgeable on cooking stuff, then maybe those instant noodles and canned goods will be the way since they only need little preparation and they are good to eat
That could be a good idea but I will try to pick everything as much as I can. I am sure my mother will happy to see if such kind of situation occur.
you have a good choice of five minutes in choosing your items, and i agree with what you said by choosing canned goods at wholesale so you can buy all the goods quickly
Wow let's go saydie. If it was me just take all expensive stuff like medicine and alcohol then resell 😂
Lol! Aside from medicines for minor illness such as flu or diarrhea, I don't think I would be able to see medicines just lying on supermarket shelves specially if they were expensive ones cause they probably would require prescription so you can only find them on Pharmacy or was it different for Malaysia? 🤔
As for alcohol, I would probably be temp to just keep it for my self if I were to have expensive ones so that's a no go.
Btw, thanks for coming by my post!
Unprescribed medicine can be expensive too saydie and your welcome 👀
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