SUPERMARKETS

DON'T get me started. In Australia there's little competition and the 2 major chains have us over a barrel. In UK,  competing chains provide pleasant shopping environments with islands instead of tunnel aisles, good signage you can spot a mile away, little imitation "real" shops like fishmongers or bakeries, trolleys with snap-on holders for unwieldy items, fast pack-it-yourself checkouts with a no-more-than-2-waiting policy, toilets, cafes, extra-wide parking for pushchair mums, and loyalty schemes. 

Compare that with Australia. Long narrow aisles which force you up the full length because of inadequate signage, poor trolley manoeuvrability, dodgy unfresh produce that shouldn't be on sale except in a discount bin, negligible organic section with fresh veg wrapped in plastic trays thus cancelling out the brownie points, high stack which create an oppressive atmosphere, no universally comparative price labelling,  ridiculously long queues at checkout and poor packers who use far to many bags and don't understand you put the tomatoes on top of the watermelon, not the other way round.