You going to the groceries?

The judge, Jean François Molla, said the groceries, cafes and restaurants played a much bigger role than simply feeding people that live in extremely precarious conditions.

When you go to buy groceries with it, it doesn't go, I'm the money saved on the car stereo, or, I'm the dumb money saved on the car. It's money.

Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment you cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.

Amazon tells you the books you want, the groceries you need, the films you will like and sells you the tablet that enables you to order them and more. Your lights turn on when you get close to home, and your house adjusts to your choice of ambient temperature.

Doorman buildings provide round the clock service to residents and dog walkers look after pets during the workday. In New York City, one can get help during the weekends to prepare meals for the coming week, with a culinary expert to advise you on the recipes, buy the groceries, and do part of the cooking.

But if countries like China can combine Western technology with low wages, then trade with China will lower Western wages. True, the West will be able to get its goods more cheaply but, as Samuelson put it, being able to purchase groceries 20 cheaper at Wal Mart does not necessarily make up for the wage losses.

Research project with the title Quality of life completed in 1994, included the question Who is doing the tasks of cleaning the house, cooking, washing laundry, daily buying groceries etc., in your household? According to the results of the research, 32,8 men share these tasks with their wives, while 39,3 of men fully leaves these tasks completely to their female partners.

We're too busy keeping out the giraffes putting the kids on the bus in the morning, getting ourselves to work on time, surviving email overload and shop floor politics, foraging for groceries, throwing together meals, escaping for a couple of precious hours in the evening into prime time TV or TED online, getting from one end of the day to the other, keeping out the giraffes.