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If you want to find the best price for an electronic appliance of any kind, see the http://www.kakaku.com website. -- SC

The "Coop" supermarket chain is a great source of cheaper and good quality food ... at least, or especially where we are in Ehime. They tend to have a scheme whereby they encourage local growers to sell vegetables and other products, e.g. rice, herbs, pickles and miso, via their food markets. This is great in a number of ways; they have low or no pesticides, they are local (therefore low transportation/pollution, they are seasonal ... and they are very cheap. Frankly, I wish I could pay the growers more.

I love the idea. The food looks real (sometimes it is not "perfect" shape or size). It is "real"! The growers still take a lot of care in presentation, e.g. it is very clean. And the money made sticks in the local community rather than going off to some distant commercial producer/importer.