A few times now I’ve been to this French chain store called Auchan that was previously described as the offspring of a Super WalMart and Costco. This store sells everything you could possibly need: clothes, appliances, wine, baked goods, fresh foods, electronics, sporting equipment, luggage, jewelery, cosmetics, dinnerware, paper products, children’s books, toys … The list just goes on and on!
At Auchan you can even get your haircut, do your banking, and get your electronics fixed. (At least I think that’s what the small electronics shop is for after the bank of 50 checkout registers…)
Shopping at Auchan is an experience not to be missed, especially on the weekend when it tends to be the busiest with families of all shapes and sizes zipping in and out of the aisles as if they’re driving their shopping carts on the streets. And just like vehicles on the roads outside, somehow there are rarely any shopping cart collisions!
During this past week I wound up going to Auchan three days in a row. To document everything in this amazing place I created a photo album I’m calling The Auchan Chronicles. This photo album will be updated as frequently as possible showing off only the best Auchan has to offer. Like, for example, this week when the seafood section had more than just live fish for sale: eels, turtles, and bullfrogs the size of grapefruit were in bins ready to be bagged (???!) up and brought home.
So checkout the album and hope you enjoy what you see. And if you have any good turtle recipes or know what to do with “whine wine”, leave me a comment or two below!
Auchan looks like my kind of store, especially the seafood department. In fact, I just had some eel the other day. Caught it myself. Uummm good!
You caught an eel? Awesome! They are quite delicious, especially as unagi at a sushi joint 🙂
Jeremiah was a bullfrog. He was a good friend of mine. I never understood a word he said, but I helped him drink his whine. He always had some mighty
fine whine. Sing it! Joy to the world, all the boys and girls now!
Ugh. I’m having flash backs to when I was young and lived in Korea. The Korean markets had all the fish and stuff out. As a kid I was slightly scared.