Blog Tag - Supermarkets

Beijing Urges People to Scale Down On Stockpiling
With a sudden uptick in cases in the capital this past week, people have begun to stockpile food, with lines going out the door at some grocery...
Beijing Issues the Ten Commandments for Safe Shopping
The Beijing government has just released new safety guidelines for consumers while shopping in supermarkets. Posted on the Beijing Government website...
Hema Supermarket Offers a Taste of the Sea
God only knows how we survive without succulent, live seafood in Beijing. We try to justify it by saying we're landlocked, but life really is too...
Throwback Thursday: Thank You, "The French Shop," for Providing Dongcheng with Cheese for 8 Years So Far
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
Bye Bye, Ito Yokado Supermaket Sanlitun Is Closing on Dec 19, Things You Can Grab
Before we could even heal from news of Marks & Spencer closing, there’s now even more sad news, this time from beloved supermarket Ito Yokado....
Black Ice: Eighty Percent of Beijing's Ice Cubes Coming From Unlicensed Sources
Summer usually means its time to enjoy the outdoors when Beijing weather allows it; have a few friends over to enjoy some barbecue and cool down...
Wrap It Up (Or Don't): Toxic Plastic Wrap Found In Beijing Supermarkets
You may want to think twice before choosing to buy wrapped produce at your local supermarket. A recent test conducted on 16 samples of plastic wrap...
It’s Not What You Eat But Where You Buy It
The end of the year means all the requisite top ten lists, but Greenpeace decided to do one a bit out of the ordinary. Earlier this week they...