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Maybe our local coop does that. I don't recall seeing it, but I'll ask.

One of the things that I liked about Mexico was the survival, at least in the sleepy little city I lived in, of old-school commerce. Market places, of course. But also stores where customers were expected to supply their own "packaging". A milk store, where you got milk in a 1L plastic bag, if you didn't bring your own container.



They have stores which only sell milk?


This was in small towns. So yes, there was a milk store. Which sold milk that people delivered directly from their farms. Not pasteurized. You were supposed to boil it at home.

Also a coffee store, which also bought directly from farms. And a bakery, with wood-fired ovens. Plus many other small stores.

And then, an hour away by motor vehicle, was a Walmart. Stuff was so inexpensive there that many local stores resold stuff that they bought there.




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