so I want to take a trip. but I do NOT want to go to anywhere in the world that has been taken over by Walmart’s and whatnot…

I went to Mexico the last time, was driving around… bam… giant Walmart. why… why does everything need to look the same, sell the same junk.

is there a list of cities, countries that are still… good that haven’t been visually infected with corporate American trash stores?

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    Ukrainian here, smaller town. Most stuff is purchased on a street market a.k.a. bazaar. But there are also two competing grocery chains, Tavria V and ATB. It’s like RED and BLU. Left twix / right twix situation. They are everywhere. Anything that isn’t no-name (and is food) is probably cheaper there than at a bazaar. Though I once saw them sell tiny ass stollen loafs for 12 whole bucks because “it’s a slightly niche foreign recipe so it must be expensive” (and same with pretty much everything else in there). Might not sound like a lot but this is a week worth of (other) food, idk how much stollen costs for neighboring countries but went on amazon.de and scrolled for a little bit to find a similar thing for 2 euro.

    Bigger cities have one or two really large (3+ story) buildings, which are renting spaces for the two competiting grocery chains, arcade halls, casinos, pizza/burger stuff and small stores selling random foods by weight. When one enters, all sense of time is lost.

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      I was also bored one day and made this image in response to someone sending the same thing but about Lidl ATB gordon