You came in for milk. You left with a plant, four discounted yoghurts and an existential question about the word karnemelk. Let's find out what sort of shopper you really are.
This quiz has no scientific basis whatsoever. It may, however, explain why you regularly spend twenty minutes inside a supermarket that is smaller than your childhood corner shop.
Pick the answer that sounds most like you
1. You enter an unfamiliar supermarket. Your first move?
A: Find the discount shelf.
B: Read the packaging until you understand the local vocabulary.
C: Search for something that could become dal tonight.
D: Investigate the cheese section with unreasonable enthusiasm.
2. You see a strange vegetable. You…
A: Check the price per kilogram.
B: Translate its name.
C: Wonder whether it will survive a pressure cooker.
D: Buy it and construct a weekend around it.
3. Your relationship with loyalty cards is…
A: Strategic. Every point is accounted for.
B: Complicated. You have four apps and remember two passwords.
C: Secondary to finding the right spices.
D: A pleasant background detail in your culinary adventures.
4. Someone asks you to bring something to a potluck.
A: Something good, affordable and easy to share.
B: A dish whose ingredients you’ve carefully researched.
C: The dish you know everyone will ask you to make again.
D: An ambitious recipe you’ve never tried before.
5. The checkout receipt is longer than expected. Why?
A: You bought three promotions to save money later.
B: You accidentally selected the premium version of everything.
C: You bought substitutes for ingredients the shop didn’t have.
D: Apparently, artisanal olives cost money.
Your result
Count your A, B, C, and D answers. Whichever letter you chose most often is your result.
Ties? Congratulations: you contain multitudes.
Mostly A — The Deal Detective
Your superpower is knowing what a product should cost. You have an internal map of which store has the best onions and which week the good coffee goes on sale. Your weakness: purchasing five of something because the sixth was technically free.
Mostly B — The Label Archaeologist
You arrived in Europe with a vocabulary list. The supermarket added fourteen new chapters. You know the difference between similarly named dairy products and have very strong feelings about ambiguous ingredient labels.
Mostly C — The Culinary Diplomat
Every ingredient is a candidate for adaptation. Local greens become sabzi, a surprising root vegetable finds its way into sambar, and dinner somehow tastes like two countries at once.
Mostly D — The Accidental Gourmet
You went shopping for bread and came back with a cheese whose name you cannot pronounce. You’re probably planning a dinner party that hasn’t yet been approved by your bank.
