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The front right tire on the van flattened out in just a week this time. Well, not taking any risks, went off and bought new ones. And finally solved the light on the right side of my desk, with a clip lamp which has a big decent clip, with a good grip to hold it on a 1" plank.
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Finally made a trip to Lidl. That's the big supermarket next to Roda and city bus station (not station for the city buses, but the city's main bus station (also works for non-main buses)*). Not too bad, well designed - got enough room for two carts and a pallet dolly to pass each other in the aisle, merchandise is either house brand or one other (but same all over the chain), not too much choice but mostly good stuff. Sausage etc always has percentage of meat on the label; there was a discount on instant coffee, house brand. To differ from Roda, which doesn't even care much about certain items, because those shelves get filled by merchandisers, i.e. the supplier's staff who stock the shelves, under the condition that other manufacturers' stuff gets 2nd rate shelf space. And Lidl keeps queues at the cash register short, opening more as needed, while Roda is always short on staff and there's no fast lane, queue is always slow. And Lidl has windows! Most of gray box shops only have doors; even when they have windows they plaster them with ads with little holes, so they sort of let a bit of light in, but you can't see much through them, you're isolated. The Idea (should be pronounced as eedeh-ah in serbian; the word idea is written ideja and pronounced e-deh-yah) chain is notorious for that. They practically destroyed the looks of that beautiful wood-concrete building on 25. maj and its look of a cross between Frank Loyd Wright and a norse drakar with those stickers.
Well it did last for a while... I'm writing this addition in july of 2024, and if we were regulars at Lidl for the first five years, got our weekly groceries at between 8 and 13 thousand dinars, now it's once a month and at 6 thousand, despite inflation. Because what tools and appliances we bought there is either still good and we don't need new, or turned out to be junk and we wouldn't buy it there again, and of the dry meat products, there's nothing good left. Not a single thing in a gut has the percentage of meat on the label, and the meat cans are gone, there's only fish. It's been ages since they last had lamb, and the fat tissue to melt čvarci... guess the last time was in 2022. Maggi spice is also long absent, and the story with chestnut puree was a special cuntery, v. 13-I-2024.. While I'm not too serious about that, may it be mentioned that caviar was last seen in december of 2019. Now it happens that I get in and buy just coffee, nothing else.
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* the usual disclaimer applies: sorry about your language
11-X-2021 - 31-X-2025