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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| atwood wrote: |
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Homeplus has a decent selection of Tesco products, including almost every British breakfast cereal. They do have Fruit Loops, too.
Meanwhile, E-mart has very good pizza, including Chicago Style Deep Dish for 15,000. It's not authentic but good, for the price, and at least they're trying.These are the kinds of moves we should all support. Oh, and I've seen the 6 packs of frozen Super pretzels at E-mart for 4,200. Nuke those babies and add some mustard or dipping cheese and you'll feel much better after a long day. |
You seem to live for junk food. Not knocking it, mind you, just kind of awed by it.
The new scones at Costco are pretty good. I haven't tried the mini apple turnovers. |
I share info for those who might miss some of these things. If you look at the view count there are many lurkers, and these kinds of informational threads help many out there in Korea land. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
Homeplus has a decent selection of Tesco products, including almost every British breakfast cereal. They do have Fruit Loops, too.
Meanwhile, E-mart has very good pizza, including Chicago Style Deep Dish for 15,000. It's not authentic but good, for the price, and at least they're trying.These are the kinds of moves we should all support. Oh, and I've seen the 6 packs of frozen Super pretzels at E-mart for 4,200. Nuke those babies and add some mustard or dipping cheese and you'll feel much better after a long day. |
You seem to live for junk food. Not knocking it, mind you, just kind of awed by it.
The new scones at Costco are pretty good. I haven't tried the mini apple turnovers. |
I share info for those who might miss some of these things. If you look at the view count there are many lurkers, and these kinds of informational threads help many out there in Korea land. |
No doubt-as I said, I wasn't knocking it. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I would rather live near a Homeplus because of the Tesco products. There's a greater effort to stock some western goods. The Tesco ice cream is very good, especially caramel, and the Tesco chocolate is very good, too. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| I would rather live near a Homeplus because of the Tesco products. There's a greater effort to stock some western goods. The Tesco ice cream is very good, especially caramel, and the Tesco chocolate is very good, too. |
I don't know about that. Yes they carry tesco store brands, but when they run out of them, it can be 6 months or longer before they get them back in stock. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| alongway wrote: |
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| I would rather live near a Homeplus because of the Tesco products. There's a greater effort to stock some western goods. The Tesco ice cream is very good, especially caramel, and the Tesco chocolate is very good, too. |
I don't know about that. Yes they carry tesco store brands, but when they run out of them, it can be 6 months or longer before they get them back in stock. |
...and North Korea calls the South a capitalist country? Markets don't always dictate the rules here. Imagine if Wal Mart or Target tried to wait six months before re-stocking something. If something sells out quickly and it isn't re-stocked to sell more and make even more money, Wal Mart would really get on their suppliers over that one.... (Don't always understand the logic here. Guess they don't like making money.) |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| alongway wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
| I would rather live near a Homeplus because of the Tesco products. There's a greater effort to stock some western goods. The Tesco ice cream is very good, especially caramel, and the Tesco chocolate is very good, too. |
I don't know about that. Yes they carry tesco store brands, but when they run out of them, it can be 6 months or longer before they get them back in stock. |
...and North Korea calls the South a capitalist country? Markets don't always dictate the rules here. Imagine if Wal Mart or Target tried to wait six months before re-stocking something. If something sells out quickly and it isn't re-stocked to sell more and make even more money, Wal Mart would really get on their suppliers over that one.... (Don't always understand the logic here. Guess they don't like making money.) |
Maybe the items weren't that popular and so they wait a while before giving them another go. Maybe in some cases they're just getting old stock. which wouldn't surprise me, and have to wait until more is available.
But distribution has always been spotty in Korea. There's an old saying that if you see something you like buy three or four because chances are it won't be there the next time. |
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coralreefer_1
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| alongway wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
| I would rather live near a Homeplus because of the Tesco products. There's a greater effort to stock some western goods. The Tesco ice cream is very good, especially caramel, and the Tesco chocolate is very good, too. |
I don't know about that. Yes they carry tesco store brands, but when they run out of them, it can be 6 months or longer before they get them back in stock. |
...and North Korea calls the South a capitalist country? Markets don't always dictate the rules here. Imagine if Wal Mart or Target tried to wait six months before re-stocking something. If something sells out quickly and it isn't re-stocked to sell more and make even more money, Wal Mart would really get on their suppliers over that one.... (Don't always understand the logic here. Guess they don't like making money.) |
Maybe the items weren't that popular and so they wait a while before giving them another go. Maybe in some cases they're just getting old stock. which wouldn't surprise me, and have to wait until more is available.
But distribution has always been spotty in Korea. There's an old saying that if you see something you like buy three or four because chances are it won't be there the next time. |
Truer words have likely never been spoken on this forum. If you see something you like...buy it as much as possible when you can.
Example: My local emart (one store of three within 10 minutes of my home) was selling wishbone ranch dressing for about 3,500 won (the stuff sites like nice market like to charge 9,000won for)
I was buying 4-5 each weekend...because like the bolded part, and the 8 years I have been here have taught me to get it while its good/available. Sure enough, after a few weeks I (and maybe some others) bought them out, leaving their foreign foods section with nothing but sad 1000 island dresing.
Spoke to a stockboy about it...who got on the phone with someone and basically told me Emart would not be re-stocking the item. 4 months have gone by since then...and although I still have 11 bottles of it in my cabinet, it hasnt been there (or any other of the three emarts in my vacinity) ever since. |
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