| SamuelRSmith said: I think we were anticipating something different because in the UK all the stores cater for all markets and have ample amounts of low, medium, and high priced items. |
I've just found a quote on Wikipedia that has proved exactly this point that I made.
"Probably the most surprising thing to me was the number of different stores that an American family uses to shop. They shop in up to 20 different stores – many more than the equivalent would in the UK. They will use different types of shop for their food, for their cleaning products and for their personal care products. What I discovered is that you just can't get everything that you want in one place... The main retail brands in Britain have much higher levels of loyalty and genuinely do fulfil the notion of a one-stop shop. That's less of the case here. People will wait for flyers and coupons and indeed, people who have time but not money, will actually take their shopping list and walk to two or three big players and then decide what to buy."—Tim Mason, 2007
