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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