Also, Finland has very little poverty due to a welfare system that actually gives a damn about citizens happiness so people aren't as desperate as in, say for example, the US.
Not as long as I have friends over there who worry about losing insurance and they're kids getting shot while over here we worry about the madman with nuclear weapons.
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You know you could've just talked about Finland but you just had to bring the US into it. I'm half surprised you haven't started calling us Americunts yet.
So all this time for some reason I thought those were eyedrops and I just realized it's some sort of milk(?).
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I also really don't want to get involved (which is a goddamn pointless thing to say because here I go anyway), but you should probably try and keep in mind America has about 65x the population of Finland. The only countries beating it are China and India, and I guarantee for a lot of them the quality of life is much lower.
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Could they use some improvements?
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Probably, but what country couldn't? They're doing a damn sight better than a vast majority of the other countries out there, and even though I despise Trump with a passion, I can't think of many other countries I'd want to have as my neighbour.
In France you can get them 50% off the day they expire... which is already nice (and explains why I've been eating a lot of expired stuff^^) but after seing this I think I should move to Finland.
The sales on short dated items vary by store in the US, for those making these comments and not actually ever grocery shopped here.
Discounts in "super stores" (Target, Walmart, etc.) can, but not always, go to 50-80% off for things that need to be used in the next 2-3 days. Easiest place for them to do this is in bakery items, but I've seen yogurt go from being $1 each down to $.33 each. Some grocery stores will add coupons, best place I've found for this is Harris Teeters w/ a standard $#off for remainder, where due to sales I've gotten paid (change but still) for buying things (like the cheese & nut snack packs) that were about to be un-sellable due to dates even though they were perfectly fine.
They may not do this free, but when I'm paying $2.04 for 1lb of butter at Walmart, $5 for a 3lb+ rotisserie chicken at Costco, I want to say $3, $1/lb for tomatoes on the vine, $2/3lb bag of oranges, our daily prices (not Whole Foods types) are dramatically better for meats than Europe.
Czech here, we have a bit watered down version of this where stuff with damaged packaging or a few days before expiry date (like one or two) is sold with a significant discount.
From my experience, eating something a few days after it expires is usually fine. As long as it was left unopened and of course it also depends on the type, for example chocolate is fine for a long time but dairy products are not. But maybe that's just me, maybe my utter disregard for my health made my stomach immune to everything, idk.
Why wouldn't people just not buy anything until 10 days prior to expiry?
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I also really don't want to get involved (which is a goddamn pointless thing to say because here I go anyway), but you should probably try and keep in mind America has about 65x the population of Finland. The only countries beating it are China and India, and I guarantee for a lot of them the quality of life is much lower.
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Could they use some improvements?
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Probably, but what country couldn't? They're doing a damn sight better than a vast majority of the other countries out there, and even though I despise Trump with a passion, I can't think of many other countries I'd want to have as my neighbour.
Discounts in "super stores" (Target, Walmart, etc.) can, but not always, go to 50-80% off for things that need to be used in the next 2-3 days. Easiest place for them to do this is in bakery items, but I've seen yogurt go from being $1 each down to $.33 each. Some grocery stores will add coupons, best place I've found for this is Harris Teeters w/ a standard $#off for remainder, where due to sales I've gotten paid (change but still) for buying things (like the cheese & nut snack packs) that were about to be un-sellable due to dates even though they were perfectly fine.
They may not do this free, but when I'm paying $2.04 for 1lb of butter at Walmart, $5 for a 3lb+ rotisserie chicken at Costco, I want to say $3, $1/lb for tomatoes on the vine, $2/3lb bag of oranges, our daily prices (not Whole Foods types) are dramatically better for meats than Europe.
From my experience, eating something a few days after it expires is usually fine. As long as it was left unopened and of course it also depends on the type, for example chocolate is fine for a long time but dairy products are not. But maybe that's just me, maybe my utter disregard for my health made my stomach immune to everything, idk.