Tesco has trimmed 20% of its product range in 15 areas, including takeaway sandwiches, soft fruit and bakery.
Yet the island's streets felt almost lazy, like those of a provincial capital, and were dotted with fruit and bakery stands.
Ms. Bluhdorn is another shopper who feels that life has been more expensive since the euro came along, especially fruit, vegetables, bakery goods and clothing.
Packaged foods, such as fruits, vegetables, bakery goods, poultry, meats, and prepared meals, are usually frozen in air-blast tunnels.
In addition to sundry breakfast Danishes, muffins, cinnamon rolls and fruit bars, the bakery offers croissants (regular and chocolate), scones and three types of biscotti.
More than just fish, the market also has a bottle shop, bakery, fruit and vegetable market, deli and gift shop.
Across 185 stores throughout New England and New York, the company has donated 7.2m pounds of reclaimed packaged food, has partnered with composting facilities, provided still-nutritious fruits, vegetables and bakery products to farmers with livestock, and in 2013, composted 6,955 tons of organic waste.
You creep by spice shops and cafes, past fruit stands and bakeries, the walls on either side of the car so close in places that you can reach out and touch them.
There is no butcher or bakery, and fruit is sold in bags to speed checkout.
At each stop, the bakery, the fruit stand, the vegetable stand, I was greeted by "Oh, signora, we're so sorry".
