Tesco is like a British version of Wal-mart. You can buy clothes, electronics, housewares, groceries, etc. In the local shops most products are in 4 languages - Czech, Slovak, Polish and Hungarian. Not much help.At Tesco, you have the same thing but a lot of the products there often have some English on the labels. I was finally able to find fabric softener at a Tesco because the label said "fabric softener". But that was it. I couldn't read anything else (instructions, ingredients, etc.) because the rest of the label was in Czech and Slovak. But hey, I'll take what I can get.
Grocery shopping takes me longer here because most of the time I have to figure out what I'm looking at. Here's what I picked up today.
Instant coffee, tea, butter, 3 croissants, rye bread, 1 liter of orange juice, 2 liters of skim milk, and 1 liter of apple & black currant juice. This was all I needed and it was all that would fit in my backpack. The grand total came out to 231 Kč (~$12.80 U.S.).The apple & black currant juice tastes like cran-apple juice, but a little sweeter. I wonder if I will ever get used to buying milk that is not refrigerated?
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Have you noticed Tesco carries clothing brands commonly seen at Target in America? Cherokee is one brand that comes to mind. Food seems cheap in C. R.; clothing and cosmetics don't.
ReplyDeleteI haven't looked at clothes at Tesco yet. But you're right - clothes here are not cheap.
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