The Grocery Store
Last night I did some reading, as promised. Wired magazine had this great infographic about the “cost” of various items at the grocery store. I ended up writing a blog post about it first thing this morning on one of my personal blogs. InfoGraphic and blog post links.
I took this graphic mentally with me to the grocery story. I found myself, for the first time in a long time, actually reading all of the labels and pondering the organic vs local vs what are the more traditional food processing techniques of today. Regardless of where you land on this issue, it was interesting to consider. Am I better off with “all natural” yogurt that is from Seattle (where I live) or organic that is shipped in from California? I ended up with a little bit of everything in my cart, but at least it was all put in there intentionally.
The other interesting side-effect, that I hadn’t really considered, is that I didn’t buy nearly as much as I normally would. I bought just what I thought I would use, because it’s more expensive. Which means I’m not composting it in a week when it goes bad because I never ate it (which is a win all the way around).
So, why is this a thing-a-day for me? Because I ended up both creating and destroying some mental models for myself. That and because I started doing some research in to how to create a visual around this for my training business, but after about an hour of reading ultimately concluded that what is most important to me is that people make it a conscious choice — whatever that may be.
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