Grocery Store Curiousities

Just got back from Carrefour, which is, for those who don't know, like a Target. Huge, has lots of variety and decent prices. Here's a few observations from the past two weeks of shopping here.

1. There are bird noises playing in the produce department. ????
2. You have to price your own produce on the scale and print out a little bar code, without such code you make everyone behind you in line give you the evil eye while the cashier calls a person to come get the produce and take it to the scale and get a code. Or, you just decide you really didn't want those apples anyway and move on.
3. It takes us forever every time we are in Carrefour, not because we don't know what we want, but because we can't find what we are used to. Like cream cheese. Does this exist in France? There are 3 aisles of cheese, but any cream cheese? We didn't find it.
4. They don't keep milk cold. or eggs.
5. The aisle for yogurt is enormous, as is the selection. I'm in awe.
6. Don't bring your own shopping bags with you? You get to pay for bags to sack your own groceries in (whew, glad I brought two market bags with me, one of the best random things from home I brought)
7. Cereal isn't a big thing in France, but they do have these little nuggets that are chocolate with chocolate cream inside. scrumptious.
8. Big shopping carts don't exist.
9. Avocados are super cheap.
10. Tortilla chips are not a hot commodity, which is probably good because I won't eat tons of them.
11. There is almost no orange cheese. All white.

ok that's enough for now... still love grocery shopping, just adjusting to the differences!