In Budapest, and most of Europe that I have experienced, the communities shop for their groceries very differently than we do in the United States. Local people, from what I have noticed, shop for their food daily or for two days, which causes the grocery stores all around to be much smaller than what I am used to.
I learned about the community's need for food. The community of Budapest is very different from what I am accustomed to in the United States in terms of how they shop. People in grocery stores will usually buy enough food for the day and nothing more. In the United States, people shop much differently, buying in bulk and freezing food for a week or month at a time. In Budapest, the grocery stores in general are much smaller and there are no shopping carts, just shopping baskets.
One of the reasons the community has the need to shop for much smaller quantities is because people have less space. In the city, it is mostly small apartments and people do not have a pantry or a large refrigerator to store their food. Another reason that people in Budapest buy less food is because the food in Hungary has fewer preservatives, and the food goes stale much more quickly than in the United States. For example, if I leave bananas out for more than three days, they will become stale.
