But when I lived in Geneva, it was the opposite. They had an entire freaking shopping aisle for bricks of chocolate. I'd never seen a brick of chocolate before let alone an entire aisle of it. Trader Joe's has these bricks now.
Fair, and in Scandinavia you'll find a similarly huge selection of fish pastes, or in Sri Lanka of tea. But having been to many countries in the world, I don't think even the largest grocery store I've been to outside of the US is the size of even a normal suburban Giant.