Biggest surprise: the amount of time freed up by no meals and much less shopping.
Shop or eat at a multinational chain and your impact is much less than shopping and eating at small, family-run stores and restaurants.
It passes through the ancient colleges, around the much less ancient shopping centre, and straight through the shell of a skeletal circular building, rising like some strange modern-day henge from a muddy building site on the north-west edge of the city.
In fact, it's rare to find fancy tasting rooms, much less gift shops or regular visiting hours at Apulian wineries, which are mainly family-owned.
Thank goodness there's Kloosterstraat, a milelong stretch of quirky (and much less pricey) antiques shops, all-day cafes, and ethnic restaurants that physically and metaphorically link the densely packed ancient heart of the city with the tonier southern end.
It's now, as it likes to boast, the largest secondhand book dealer in Europe, which isn't saying a lot, if you consider how few secondhand booksellers have more than a single shop, much less 130.
They say foreign retailers are much less interested in opening shops in areas that appeal primarily to American tourists, like Times Square, or to local residents, like Columbus Avenue.
Some analysts even suggest getting two loyalty cards for one supermarket could help trick retailers into giving you better deals by making them think you're shopping much less frequently.
So Crowdstorm has to make traditionally transient behaviour, like shopping, much less transient.
Without these automation tools, you'd experience a much less personalized and enjoyable shopping experience.
