<p>The most amazing thing to me, being home for a few months is the packaging. Coffee bags, you know the paper/plastic ones, open and don’t rip. The trash bags keep your trash smelling sweet if that is at all possible! Everything seems to be done to suit the customer. Let me tell you after 22 years living in a place where the customer was always wrong, this is amazing. The supermarket takes your bags onto a conveyor and loads them for you at a loading dock. Gratis. These are little things, but this morning, being that I have been home for now almost two months, I am appreciating them. When we just expect these things, it is not such a treat, I suppose.</p>
<p>overseas, the thing that always amazed me when coming home after living away for a while is just the sheer size of the grocery store. Where do they get all that space???</p>
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<p>I had a different supermarket reaction. I lived most of the 90s overseas. I was visiting relatives at the time and there was a big sign at the supermarket that read: “PARENTS: NO CANDY THIS AISLE.”</p>
<p>I thought it meant that there was not enough candy in the store to fill all the shelves.</p>
<p>I love the mega stores where you can buy everything you need, bank, dry clean etc. I must say that those places were popping up all over where I lived for 22 years at the end. Nothing special actually.</p>