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Amsterdam is indeed a great spot for grocery shopping. There’s a few supermarket chains and tons and tons of smaller family run green grocer type stores all over the city. There is also a variety of ‘specialty shops’ with really high quality stuff but you definitely pay more.
My biggest gripe is that one chain in particular, Albert Heijn, has all of the best locations around the city and they also have the highest prices. So I have to go well out of my way to go to a non-Albert Heijn chain store. The thumbnail of the video is definitely in an Albert Heijn, I recognize the price tags.
That all being said, to reach another chain store is less than 10 minutes biking whereas an AH store is 2-5 minutes biking. So Amsterdam is still by far the best compared to anywhere else I have lived thus far. (Housing prices and availability are absolutely awful though)
Amsterdam is indeed a great spot for grocery shopping. There’s a few supermarket chains and tons and tons of smaller family run green grocer type stores all over the city. There is also a variety of ‘specialty shops’ with really high quality stuff but you definitely pay more.
My biggest gripe is that one chain in particular, Albert Heijn, has all of the best locations around the city and they also have the highest prices. So I have to go well out of my way to go to a non-Albert Heijn chain store. The thumbnail of the video is definitely in an Albert Heijn, I recognize the price tags.
That all being said, to reach another chain store is less than 10 minutes biking whereas an AH store is 2-5 minutes biking. So Amsterdam is still by far the best compared to anywhere else I have lived thus far. (Housing prices and availability are absolutely awful though)