Grocery Shopping in Sicilia

Every trip to Carrefour is an experience, and is the hugest grocery store I've ever seen. In fact, you can also buy clothing, household items, toys...Hmmm, it's starting to sound like a Super Wal*Mart! This store is in a large, modern mall (the only mall I know of), and you'd better not go on the weekend or you will get run over by a shopping cart or two, or three, or four.

I think their way of thinking is that if one aisle of yogurt is good, than two aisles is better. Same with pasta, same with meat, same with cheeses, same with seafood, same with veggies. Needless to say, the selection is fabulous. We can learn from their system of self-weighing produce. You put your selection on the scale and press a picture of what you are buying, and it spits out a tag with the price. Cool, huh? Why didn't Publix or Shop-Rite think of that?

I was lucky to get these photos before being stopped in my tracks by the seafood manager, who when he saw my camera poised, commanded, "Non foto!" Well, he saved you from seeing the

photo that was to be. Raw squid, octopus, shrimp, and you-name-it. Gifts from the sea.

Here you see pasta on sale. That's what "offerta" means.