One day in a month I normally go to the big supermarket to get all the monthly home provisions. This is the Lulu Supermarket, a famous chain of Supermarkets in the Middle East and also the biggest one. The market has 2 sections, one is the food and day to day utilities and the other is the clothes, electronics, cosmetics, footwear and anything and everything that you can think of. It is a one-stop destination for all your needs. If you come here, you do not need to go anywhere else. Products are available in variety of brands. Though the brands are all mid-level ones.
I normally do not prefer to come here, unless I have loads to shop because it's too big and confuses me with all the possible options that it has. Most of the time there are good offers and deals available in this place and hence this place is always crowded. There is always a big queue for billing. The best time to come here is on a week day morning. Evening time I avoid because of the crowd and this Supermarket is in a shopping mall so there are hassles with parking and a long way to the parking lot.
The entrance to the market
There are pointers at all the sections giving details of what is available in the line.
We have taken our trolley and now going through the market to buy our things. Actually I did not have much to buy but there are somethings which are only available here and not in my local market, and hence this visit has to be made once in a month.
We wanted to buy the cold cuts which are available in a good variety only in this place.
Hubby is checking out on the available options
There are variety of cottage cheese available
Variety of ready salad and ready cooked food is available in the market, with a huge variety and different type of cuisine. Makes it easy for working people, to pick up ready food stuff.
There is Butchery section that provides fresh meat. There is also frozen meat available, but when fresh is available why go for frozen.
Here there are variety of Dates available which are famous in Oman. Whenever I am travelling and I have to take gifts for people, I come here and pick up some Dates packets.
This is where all the variety of chips are available. There is a craze for chips in this place, people buy them in big packets for their snacking time. Guess because they are cheap people prefer it.
Look at how big the chips section is
My Shopping is done. I had to pick up some Oil bottles, I use oil to light my Diyas which I keep it burning all the time, here there are good deals so I can buy in stock and store it. I never use oil in my cooking, so for the Diyas I buy the low quality oil which is budgeted for me. And bought some Cold cuts, Salad, Figs, Nuts, Fruits, Veggies and Bread. In this place different type of breads are available. Only here I get the Sorghum bread so when we make a visit we buy it in bulk. I do not eat bread at all, but hubby likes to take a sandwich as a afternoon meal to office.
And finally we are in the billing line.
Just to buy these few things, it took us almost 2 hours and I feel it is too much waste of time. But as I said somethings are only available here and hence once in a month we do need to remove time to visit this place.
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