Hello Market Friday Community,
I am back again this week with some late night shopping in Kaufland. I say late night but that is subjective as the supermarket closes at 10pm here, so it was a quick dash in shortly before closing time and not a 2 or 3am visit that I may have done in the past in other places.
I was having a snack attack and was looking for something sweet to eat, so thought a quick shop to Kaufland could be a good idea. While I was there, I thought I could take a few snaps as that could be useful for a Market Friday post.
Kaufland is probably one of the better supermarkets in Germany and it also has usually the largest markets with more products than many others. I find that they are usually also quite well ran, clean and tidy.
They also often have elevators taking you up into the shopping area. This is great fun to negotiate with a trolley full of stuff and the kids have fun too.
As it was around 9.45pm, there were not too many people around. Here was the place to return glass and plastic bottles.
As you enter the shopping area, there is the fruit and veg section. I was not picking up any veg today for my sweet tooth.
Next to it is the bakery section. Mostly it is quite reasonably priced but I don't like to eat their bakery products because they taste nasty imo compared to fresh from the bakery. Maybe if you manage to get something directly freshly baked, it might be ok, but generally I avoid the bakery in Kaufland and in fact all of the in-supermarket bakeries as they are cheap and nasty tasting.
As I was browing I saw there was a range of mustard products.
Quite popular here is the wine section. There were a few isles dedicated to wine.
The prices of wine are pretty cheap in Germany, although not so cheap as in Spain or Italy I think. If you like the branded wine, then you would buy it here in Kaufland.
Along with wine, sparkling wine is also popular. One popular brand is called Rotkäppchen or Red Riding Hood.
Here there are lots of chocolates to choose from if you have a sweet tooth.
A popular brand here is Milka. It costs €1,35 for a 100g bar of chocolate, but it is often on offer for half of this price every other week.
There is some chocolate available for all tastes and budgets.
As I was looking for a snack, I came across a Spargel or Asparagus soup that you can buy in a packet costing 99 cents.
They also do cups with noodles in them for €1,19. These I would have eaten in my younger days for a quick snack.
There were many soups and spices available to choose from.
In the fresh section you can view all the way down to the checkouts.
You can also buy different types of meat in the meat section.
I mentioned last week that you wouldn't buy beer in Lidl here and this is because the range of beers are much better at Kaufland and other supermarkets. Here you can buy a case of beer for example Paulaner for €12,79.
This one is an alcohol free Weiß beer.
Also they had on offer a case of Bitburger pilsner beer for €9,99 the case. I think it is a reasonable average good quality german beer and tastes ok.
There is a lot of beer to choose from. Currently at home I have a case of Warsteiner that you can see on the left.
Before leaving at the checkouts, I saw there was lots of ice-cream available to buy.
As I was leaving, I saw the bakery was already closed.
I made a final run for it down the elevator to my car. Thanks for coming with me on this late night shopping trip.
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