Supermarkets: they are ubiquitous yet hard to define, lauded and vilified in roughly equal measures, and in many countries they have a huge influence on what we eat. Technological innovations, big social changes and new shopping habits have all shaped their development and today’s megastores are a far cry from their small-scale ancestors of the 1930s. And yet, some quirks of supermarket design remain constant: for instance, why are the eggs always so hard to locate in the stores? Iszi Lawrence navigates supermarket aisles with the help of historian and economist Marc Levinson; Aarti Krishnan, Lecturer in Sustainability at Manchester University; Simona Botti, professor of marketing at London Business School and Forum listeners from around the world. (Photo: A customer in a supermarket. Credit: Adene Sanchez/ Getty Images)
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Welcome to the Forum from the BBC World Service.
I'm Izzy Lawrence.
Today we're going shopping.
I bought a packet of crunchy roasted crickets as a snack.
It was karaoke machine.
My uncle bought it for us and.
It is just the most unexpected supermarket find.
The most unique thing that I have seen at a supermarket are aphrodisiacs.
In the western part of Kenya, there is a tree that is known as mukombero that a lot of people say that it is sort of an aphrodisiac.
So a very, very creative investor invested by drying the roots and then he started packaging them and started putting them, especially in supermarkets.