Shop till you drop

Since petrol stations aren’t covered by these shopping hour regulations. I set off on foot to the nearest Orlen station, only to findwhen I got there that they don’t sell bread. Therefore, I walked home, got in my car and drove off to the Circle K station, where they do. Perhaps a little unfairly, I started ranting to my wife about how state-owned companies don’t have the nous to realise that occasionally under the present circumstances people might need to use them as grocery stores. There can be no doubt that current regulations have drastically altered our shopping behaviour and now I find myself spending far more time in my local Żabka convenience store than I would like. Strangely enough, this was the very outcome that the government seemed to desire back in 2016, when it introduced its so-called supermarket tax aimed at taxing retail outlets based on their floor space. At that time I was writing freelance for a different publication and was asked to write a