While I've been privileged enough to travel out of the country before, they've mostly been short trips or ones where I was not doing grocery shopping on a regular basis.
Something my new experience has emphasized to me is that labels on racks help those who can read AND photos or illustrations of what's inside a package are an important accessibility feature.
Some folks are illiterate in their own language. Foreigners may not only not know your language, but may not know your writing system.
It can take an really long time to shop if you don't know the language and/or cannot read. Even if there are photos/illustrations on the package (which definitely help a lot)...because if you are a foreigner, you are unfamiliar with certain types of products and/or the brands.
Finding out what things are, cost per unit, quality levels...all takes time. And it's a perennial thing for locals anywhere to complain about how slow foreigners are or how they're "in the way".
One way #Accessibility
to minimize that is to label things (like produce) with the name, type, and price per unit, and for package designers to include photos or good illustrations of what the package holds.
It's not just good for foreigners, but good for accessibility to those who are not yet literate in their own language or who have learning disabilities or other issues a photo/illustration of the product could help with.
Megan Lynch (she/her)