Our first trip to Safeway

I wanted to document the differences between shopping here and in America. We went to a Safeway about 5 minutes away. The first thing I noticed is that the people are not all wearing parkas as we supposed, but some were in short sleeves with no coat or just a sweater. . . I don't think I saw one person wearing boots even though the streets are very sloshy.
The store was like a Randalls (owned by Safeway), but smaller. The good news is that they had a Starbucks with ice green tea! The bad news was that the prices were more expensive. Some things reminded us of the European stores such as putting the quarter in the slot to get a cart. The butter is also in the big rectangle as they did in Holland instead of individual sticks.
I think we will look for other grocery stores, but wanted to start with the familiar.
While we were gone, our neighbor brought by two gift baskets from Shell Expat Services. One basket was filled with poinsettias and the other was a fruit basket.