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Speaker 1: Heller duper see Alan, I have got an Erica Stanford

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Speaker 1: update for you may enjoy and just a ticket seventeen

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Speaker 1: past five. But before we get to that, how was

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Speaker 1: this for a new sight seeing trend? When you go

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Speaker 1: on your overseas holiday touring supermarkets? Apparently grocery tourism is

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Speaker 1: a thing, and a Hilton survey has found that seventy

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Speaker 1: seven percent of travelers actively hunt out supermarkets. The Herald's

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Speaker 1: travel editor Sarah Pollock joins us. Now on this high, Sarah, Hi,

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Speaker 1: ho is this real?

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely real. It sounds kind of crazy, but it

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Speaker 2: was really big. In twenty twenty five, we were saying

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Speaker 2: it pop off across like TikTok Instagram. But it's definitely

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Speaker 2: a thing. Why Three reasons?

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Speaker 1: I've got few.

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Speaker 2: Firstly, I think there's been a real desire in recent

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Speaker 2: years for authenticity when we travel. We want to go

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Speaker 2: where the locals go, and I mean, what is more

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Speaker 2: authentic than your weekly shop? Right? I think the second

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Speaker 2: point that we could look at is that it's it's

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Speaker 2: a cheap way of traveling. You know, personally, sometimes when

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Speaker 2: I'm going tripping around and I'm wanting a cheap bite,

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Speaker 2: to eat. I'm going to go to a supermarket. And third,

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Speaker 2: when you get there, it's the novelty, right Like you're

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Speaker 2: going to in a seven to eleven in Japan and

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Speaker 2: you've got different flavors, you've got different languages, different packaging.

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Speaker 2: It's it's, you know, totally the novelty of the experience.

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Speaker 1: And then people film it and put it on the

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Speaker 1: TikTok they do, and what are they saying when they

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Speaker 1: film it and put it on the TikTok, Like, wow,

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Speaker 1: look at this, it's a black chicken. I've never seen

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Speaker 1: one before.

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Speaker 2: Genuinely, Sometimes, yeah, I think I think it's two things.

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Speaker 2: You know, you hear a lot of people going they've

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Speaker 2: got products that they've they've loved in another country, and

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Speaker 2: there's a bit of nostalgia there, like whether there's like

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Speaker 2: old American candy or British products that they want to

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Speaker 2: bring home. But then sometimes it's just the bizarre things

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Speaker 2: that you'll find in other countries, like different flavors. I know,

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Speaker 2: I'm Japan has like Marcher Tim TAM's things like that

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Speaker 2: that it's like this is really fascinating. So people do

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Speaker 2: tend to I mean, not me personally, I just like

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Speaker 2: kind of explore around, but they'll film themselves walking around

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Speaker 2: and the products. You can get this.

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Speaker 1: There's way too much content on the internet. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: somebody texts before just before and said they sometimes see

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Speaker 1: tour guides taking groups of Chinese tour wrists through the

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Speaker 1: pack and save and more house. No, what do you

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Speaker 1: reckon they? What are they thinking when they're walking around

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Speaker 1: our Supermarkets'.

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Speaker 2: Just kind of delighted by that though, you know, like

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Speaker 2: what you find mundane someone else that this is totally

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Speaker 2: novel to them. Like, you know, you think about Whittakers

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Speaker 2: and people will bring back like dozens of Whittaker blocks.

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Speaker 2: I was in the supermarket yesterday actually, and I saw

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Speaker 2: this guy's trulley filled with Whittakers.

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Speaker 1: But that's not because Whittakers is weird. That's because it's delicious.

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Speaker 2: It is delicious, but it's also you can't get it

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Speaker 2: anywhere else, right, Okay, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, so where are you going to? Which supermarket are

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Speaker 1: you going to next? Well?

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Speaker 2: This is kind of what I love about the trend

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Speaker 2: is that you know, it's been this is as a phenomenon,

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Speaker 2: has been covered by New York Times, It's been covered

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Speaker 2: by Vogue. And obviously they'll list famous supermarkets in Paris

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Speaker 2: or Milan, and but the beauty is obviously and pack

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Speaker 2: and save obviously. But I think the beauty of it

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Speaker 2: is like it could be any supermarket, you know, it

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Speaker 2: could be one that I've seen pop up a lot.

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Speaker 2: Is like the seven eleven's in Japan are apparently incredible.

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Speaker 1: They're popping off at the moment. Apparently that's their packing save.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to stop taking the McKey out of

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Speaker 1: people for doing this, because apparently I have's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm off trend. Sarah, thank you very much for putting

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Speaker 1: me back on trend. Sarah Pollock, the Herald's travel editor.

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