Forgotten Grocery Escapade

I meant to add this in our last post but totally forgot!

So everyone always says "get groceries off post, it's way cheaper and has a better selection". With knowing this Rob and I decided to try it last night, and it went horribly. Funny and horribly.

Firstly, here in Germany you need to pay to get a shopping cart. Stick in a quarter or a euro and you can unplug it. Well, not only did we not have any paper euro, we didn't have any euro change either. So, instead, since we were already there we figured we'd at least look around and grab a few things that we could carry (since they didn't have baskets either).

The prices on some goods were a lot cheaper like some types of meat and some dairy products. Also, I loved how there was fresh baked goods there too, fresh pretzels, rolls, and breads :D
It was nice to have a different selection of things to pick from for a change.

Too bad once we got in line we realized that people not only traditionally bring their own bags but that their credit card reader was broken. After the woman rang up all of our items, and we found where the plastic bags were (which we didn't know they had and were prepared to carry our items out in our arms) we had to put all of our goods back. Talk about embarrassing.

We go walk back around and put our items back and then, when it came to leave we didn't know how to get out. There is a little gate thingy that opens when you stand in front of it and lets you in when you come in the main doors but standing in front of it to leave it wouldn't open. We couldn't figure out what to do and, icing on the cake, we don't know any German. Rob tried to pull it and an alarm went off. *more embarrassing* Finally some lady came in and the gate opened for her so we followed it out.

So embarrassing.
It may be cheaper for some items but I like shopping on post at the Commissary for now. Less stressful and I don't feel so stupid, not being able to read the packages at Netto didn't help at all. We'll try the off post thing again later maybe but for now the commissary will do.

:D