French idiosyncrasies

[suein56]

The French living in the U.K. would find some British customs strange.

When touring Scotland in their campervan our (French) neighbours had great difficulty finding bottled water for sale. They were astonished that the aisles were full of lemonades and many other kinds of fizzy drinks instead.

[MAD87]

Politeness. Strangers of all ages will wish you a good day.

Oh yes! I've conducted long conversations with complete strangers!

[MAD87]

A word about opening hours. Most businesses (especially small) are family run, so no employees to take over at lunchtime. Other, with employees, want to keep to 35h, so close for 2-3h duri,g the day. It's all down to the crippling cost of employing folk.

[tagh]

Ignoring or ignorance of Health and Safety

[Sparkle]

Buying in larger quantities unit prices are often more expensive
Eg it is often cheaper to buy 2 x 6 bottles of beer vs a 12 pack

You can call me strange if you like cos I check the price ticket for all items per kilo - it's amazing the difference for Heinz Tomato Ketchup sometimes a small bottle is cheaper per kilo than the ones on offer so I always get a couple.

[beejay]

Buying in larger quantities unit prices are often more expensive
Eg it is often cheaper to buy 2 x 6 bottles of beer vs a 12 pack

You can call me strange if you like cos I check the price ticket for all items per kilo - it's amazing the difference for Heinz Tomato Ketchup sometimes a small bottle is cheaper per kilo than the ones on offer so I always get a couple.

Nothing strange in that. I check price per weight/volume for everything that interests me and there are some unusual/misleading pricing arrangements in supermarkets and large stores in both the UK and France.

[exile]

Not strange at all @Sparkle. I too am led by the unit cost - particularly wrt cat food since we buy so much. By and large there I do find bigger packages are cheaper, until along comes an offer on the smaller packs (often of a competitive brand) like buy one and get x% off a second. Then it often does turn out that the smaller pack is a better deal, than the normal brand in a bigger pack. This is not the cheapo brands but the better widely available ones.

@beejay The one that annoys me is the sale of some things like shampoo, creams, gels and soaps, where one brand is sold by volume and the competitor sells his product per gram.

[rabbit]

It is supermarket unit pricing that I find most strange. Customers buying in larger packages is surely cheaper for the super mkt. cheaper storage and handling, and presumably lower cost from producer. You would think their pricing strategy would be to encourage buying of larger quantities.

[Loup-garou]

The choice of such obvious hair dye colours for people of a certain age!

For her - menopausal henna and for him - flaming ginger.

[Blaze]

School holidays - everything revolves around them and everything stops ... and it's every 2 months. Even the French find it frustrating !