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What's something poor people do that rich people wouldn't understand? (lazysoci.al)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Basic brands are like 3-4e, but special shampoos can be more than 10. Just saw one for 35e.

Yeah it's expensive being poor, no matter which part of the world.

Buying in ml sounds actually nice. Wish more products were available like that.

Like a nice food shop where you can get most things by weight. Deli, basically, but not just for food but for cooking stuff as well. Like "I'd like this jar filled with garlic mince, here's a box for 400-500g of soffrit, heres a container for rhe demiglaze but I only need some 150ml. Then uhm, that wonderful spice rub you have, yeah, could I get this jar of that. This jug balsamic vinegar pls, top it up, yep."

Automation can be a good thing if it increased "artisan shops" like that, imo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah!! I actually find it quite nice, nevermind that the necessity that gave rise to it is communal poverty.

    If the same kind of piecemeal purchases (minus the dizzying amounts of plastic) can be adopted for more products, here and everywhere, that'd be very nice. I can't imagine it'd be any more troublesome than keeping a huge vat of whatever, a weighing scale or some sort of a liquid measuring device and a person to make the measurements and handle the payment.

    Well, I guess it can't handle a rush of customers, though, hence the 50mL sachets of food stuff (and 5mL of shampoo, dishwashing liquid, etc).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It wouldn't be complex at all. Have a scale under the dispenser. Place your container on it. Then it tares it (discounts the weight of the container), then you just pour and it sees show much it gave and that It matches what the weight increased by. Don't even need a person.

    All sorts which are a bitch to make at home because of the time and usually large batches and limited room in the fridge. I'm thinking of buying an extra freezer.

    I don't think single use plastics were bad... IF the global infra for producing actually biodegradable plastics existed and was used. But it doesn't.... yet.

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