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February 13th, 2008 issue

Getting groceries

I have both Billa and Albert stores almost on my doorstep here in Prague 4, and both are poorly (and oddly) laid out, grubby and crowded with maddeningly long queues at all hours of the day.
However, it’s fairly easy to find just about all of the ingredients listed in your column (“Eating canned goulash,” Tempo, Jan. 30–Feb. 5).
What really surprises me, though, is not being able to get a loaf of decent crusty white bread. Perhaps there is a need to rally the readers. After all, if consumers don’t demand better quality and wider choice, then it simply won’t happen.

David King

Prague
As an 11-year Letná dweller, I appreciated your column decrying the departure of Delvita. Selection has definitely suffered. Schwartau jams, some of the good cheeses, other “exotic” (foreign) foods, and the good selection of cheap French wines (although Moravian wines seem to go down OK!) seem to have become extinct.
Polite service seems to be disappearing as well.
I ran in recently, in my haste forgetting that the checkers can no longer identify and weigh fruit. Despite my apology, I was scolded as if I’d thrown garbage on the floor. The surly checkout clerk went to the scale, weighed my fruit, came back, and didn’t drop, but threw my tomato down on the counter.
On the other hand, the last checkout lady I had there was very pleasant — but then, I wasn’t buying fruit that time. 
I may have to take my fruit and vegetable business down the street or around the corner to one of the multitude of good, quality Vietnamese greengrocers.
Perhaps Billa’s Austrian owners still have the not-uncommon Austrian view of us Bohemians as uncultured bumpkins?
Stroud Kelley
Prague
Elder health
I hope Prague will be able to avoid the heart-wrenching failures that the United States has seen with its privatized nursing homes (“Nursing a profit,” Business, Nov. 14–20, 2007). The profit motive has resulted in many helpless, vulnerable patients receiving inferior care and sometimes even physical abuse by underpaid and underqualified staff.
Alana McGuire
Encinitas, California, U.S.A.
Healthy sausage
I think that sausage itself should be banned — not. It shouldn’t be banned, but it should be checked thoroughly by the health department (“City bans sausage stands,” News, Dec. 12–18).
Charles Baxter
Prague


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