Sunday's special offer at about 50% discount in a supermarket in Japan

Guess what I found outside a Japanese supermarket?

Some supermarkets in Japan provide umbrella plastic wrappers for their customers (above photos). It is useful when it is raining. By using the wrappers, the floor will not be wet or dirty.
For hygiene reason, shoppers are encouraged to use the dis-infected wipes to clean the shopping baskets (photos below)

Outside the supermarkets, you may find waste containers for different types of waste and plastic containers etc (below). The Japanese are environmentally conscious people.

Popular Japanese supermarket going bust?

A little known supermarket about 5 km from our house is very popular with the locals because things like veggies, sushi & sashimi, coffee powder/beans, bread etc etc are cheaper than most. An example of how inexpensive the things are, a freshly baked delicious bread (pic above) cost only S$3, a bottle of UCC 117 90 gram instant coffee is only $3.75 (cost $ 5 to $6 in other shops), a 2 kg whole fish is going for $12 (fresh enough to eat as sashimi).
We shop at this place quite often. The only setback is the overcrowding. It can be quite difficult to navigate one selves not only due to the crowd but many slow moving aged customers. The car parks are 90% full which is bad by Japanese standards.
We heard from the regulars that this supermarket is going to change hand soon. No one knows the reason for it to be sold off. My opinion is that it is not making money in spite of the crowd because they are selling things way below cost.😢

Almost empty supermarket

This supermarket is almost without customers. It is a huge place and the stuff it is selling are not expensive at all...but why was it empty? First reason is it was a weekday and around 3 pm which is an off peak period, second there are many such places within a 5 km radius...as many as 10. Thirdly, Kitakyushu is a city slightly more than half size of Singapore with a small population of less than a million.
Size of Kitakyushu is 486 sq km and SG is 720 sq km

A visit to the supermarket in Japan is a refreshing experience. There is an abundant supply of sushi, sashimi, fishes,vegetables, fruits etc etc. If you look at the fish, you will noticed the eyes are glassy and clear.  The 2 signs show the fish is absolutely fresh. Unlike where I come from (Singapore) our supermarkets sell fish that are usually stale and smelly. I suppose we can't help it because the fishes in SG are imported.

Beef, sushi, sashimi, seafood at a Japanese supermarket

11 October 2015 Sunday

Report coming up soon................PSI reading as at 12 midnight is 70 which is in the moderate range.
However, by 3 pm the PSI is 104 which in the lower unhealthy range.


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Japanese supermarkets in Fukuoka
My wife who is in Fukuoka sent me these photos (below).  Rate of exchange is about 86 Yen to S$1.00. Therefore, the sushi you see in the top picture is about Yen 400 which when converted into S$ is about S$4.60. The price is really cheap compared to the ones sold in S'pore supermarkets. The second picture is the sashimi which cost between Yen 398 and 480. As for the quality I think these are better and fresher than even the ones sold in the restaurants in Singapore.

Fish & Co very quiet while others are packed on a Sunday