Shopping at Ralphs ...

We were to Ralphs supermarket for the first time yesterday. Still, it's just across the street from campus. I guess we are somewhat snob when it comes to groceries. But what can you do? Our favorite local grocery store burned down while we were in Colorado, so now we are kinda lost.

The Ralphs supermarket is enormous compared to the stores we usually go to. However, I managed to run into Cynthia there, as well as a couple of other people that were in my classes last quarter. Actually, the store was swirming with students from UCSD, especially foreign students. There were for instance probably more Indian people in there than what you will find in all the other markets of San Diego put together. I guess some people don't like to venture to far from campus. And I guess they are sort of right in that. I suppose our lives might be simpler if we were just living on campus in university housing and went about our life up there without all this commuting and going to the beach nonsense.

Anyway, the selection at Ralphs is not bad. Good drugstore, big meat and seafood counters, lots of fruits and vegetables including organic, good variety of ethnic foods and condiments. Like, we picked up everything for our Thai Curry there. But, the service is not like at the stores we usually go to. We waited more than five minutes for somebody to show up at the fish counter, and the kids at the register are not friendly. Not like at Trader Joe's where they'll wanta tell you there favorite music band is Sigurrós and that they are going on vacation in Brazil while they bag your groceries, or like at Henry's Market where they may shamelessly share with you that they just had a nervous breakdown and that getting up in the morning is sometimes hard ...