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Oh I wish this worked in the UK! It would if you only went to the same store all the time but I don’t think since I was a kid you’ve been able to get everything in just one store (or if you could it would be way to expensive to!) Each brand of store mixes things up these days (though thankfully fresh produce is always first - I got so confused when I lived in Los Angeles that my local Ralph’s put it at the back) but then after that it depends on which store and which location! I’ve got some of them figured out in my head, but then just before lockdown they moved all the aisles in my parents favourite ones and it took me weeks to find everything again staying with them and being put in charge of venturing out for everyone’s groceries! Thanks for the iPhone too though - it’s how I write my list so I’ll be using the bubbles and I can’t believe different sub headings did not occur to me, I’ve just been using different paragraphs for the general list, the list for the next time I go to a store where I can only buy certain items, the online butcher list...

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Yes! I started doing this in the first lockdown here when my husband went out for grocery shopping on his own (previously it was a family task or I did it myself). To make his life easier I was writing down everything as good as I could. Now I still do this & also for myself and the only problem is that my mind is set on a specific grocery store and the Lay-out there. And then I usually end up shopping in a different store which is closer to home but is arranged totally differently 🙈 but yay for writing elevated grocery lists 👌

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