Yes Gerry I forgot you speak with an north American accent. I can understand what you say/ But with my pure English English then they know I have no money anyway so do not waste their time.
There again we do not buy very much packaged food. We basically live on fresh items from the nearby farm shop. Shopping is done daily.
The only meat meat we have is pork which the night before was happy as a pig in sh-t but today is an item in the butchers slab.. I must admit I have moved my wife away from buying from the butcher with the heavily blood stained plywood cutting board to one with a good stone slab.
The fish is straight from the aquarium and into the pan.
If you want to buy pseudo western food then you are not going to get quality. Not many Chinese would buy these items so they are pretty safe with turning in poor quality. But let them try selling dodgy basic foods to a Chinese woman with any age behind her.
Our eggs come direct from her sisters mini farm. Baby milk is not for me but the bullet in the head sorted out the main leaders in that matter which occurred just as I first arrived here.
Any Chinese housewife knows what is good and what is bad and I know it is often the price that attracts some to buy the lesser items but with the money we put into the household coiffers there should be no reason for our women to go for the cheaper versions.
I only ever shop on my own for small items at my trusted computer shop, I would not think of going to buy any other items without a Chinese Back Up.
Willy