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Posted: Tue 27 Jul, 2010, 10:25 am Post subject:
Pasha wrote:
It was very busy there, with lots of men unloading Metro-labelled trucks with shelving and produce.
Heeee - I had to call my husband at work to tell him I'd just seen 3 huge Metro lorries heading along Television Street, my excitement was so great (sadly, I'm not kidding)
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We were informed that the shop will open this Saturday. Can't wait.
Yayyyyy - dh passes it everyday on his way to work and I've been bugging him daily asking what progress is being made so I can pay a visit! Saturday it is then!!
(gosh, can a supermarket really elicit such profound feelings of joy???!!!)
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Posted: Tue 27 Jul, 2010, 10:30 am Post subject:
Ohhh yes, the Forty Market (or Fruity Market as someone told me!) - "Luxor New Hospital Street" is actually Hospital Street - the one that runs down beside the International Hospital (that links Television Street to Medina St) ______________________________________ I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure...
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Posted: Tue 27 Jul, 2010, 15:06 pm Post subject:
We popped into today although not open terrific air con large area not metro though the logos different shelves not stocked but the guy recons it opens this saturday it's bang opposite the golden palace....
also we spotted that 40 market but we were on a mission... just noticed this thread started 3 months ago, slowly slowly catchy us monkeys...Arkwrights should be on their backfoot...on a more positive note their pate was great and it's the first time in my life I have had a brie from a tin all very Robert Falcon Scott or Stanley & Livingstone, we shall see if the brie breathes....
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Posted: Wed 28 Jul, 2010, 18:43 pm Post subject:
Now, when you start to see the puffed up packages of cheese and lunch meats in Metro that clearly were left without refrigeration at some point and are about to explode due to gas buildup, your dream of chain supermarket heaven will be shattered...
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Posted: Wed 28 Jul, 2010, 19:41 pm Post subject: Post.
When the over priced European run restaurants used frozen veg, years back, these such things bothered me. I am lead to believe, they only use fresh now.
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Posted: Sat 31 Jul, 2010, 1:42 am Post subject:
Metro had its opening night today (Friday), a day earlier than mentioned in this thread.. We spent almost 300 L.E on all kinds of foods and everything was noticably cheaper. This was opening night, our till reciept showed many items with discounts in (...), so I'd expect prices to rise a little once Metro's promotion finishes.. Overal I was very impressed with what they had to offer.. On busy days i can see using trolleys being a bit of a nightmare as the isles are quite narrow and you can easily find yourself waitng ages for gaps to appear to manouver around people.. While there we were given a phone number to call for when we wanted our groceries to be delivered.. They told us it would cost just 3 L.E for our groceries to be delivered anywhere in Luxor!!!! Wow, if we lived on the west bank this would be a great saving in travel costs!.
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Posted: Sat 31 Jul, 2010, 11:06 am Post subject:
Hi, All!
Went to the new market this morning - excellent!
Produce - very good selection of pre-packaged like Bell peppers - red, green, yellow - or if you like on the other side of the store - loose selection. All looked very fresh. If you know the METRO in Hurghada, the produce section here was about the same.
Huge upright freezer section - loaded with frozen meat products and veggies. Checked various things and all frozen solid! A good sign!
Meat - large meat section - 1 case nothing but veal cuts, 1 section all beef cuts including excellent steaks (I can vouch for them - I'm still burping mine!!!). 1 section of poultry - beautiful boneless breasts of chicken, even a whole turkey.
Many aisles of canned goods - too many to mention - lots of household cleaners etc.
Excellent dairy section - LOTS of cheeses, fresh milk, etc.
Oh, yes, back at the meat section - an entire case of cold cuts and an entire case of cheeses.
Prices seemed reasonable - not outlandish. I got a very nice steak - maybe 3/4 inch thick and covered half my dinner plate - 8 le. l like my beef VERY rare so it was juicy and tender.
Boy, are the 'other guys' in trouble!
Best to all,
Scott ______________________________________ We make a living by what we get;
we make a life by what we give.
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Posted: Sat 31 Jul, 2010, 17:33 pm Post subject:
Early this morning when I was on my way out the streets were pretty deserted and Metro looked very peaceful. When I came back about 2.0pm there were crowds of people on the steps so I gave it a miss - I thought I would just drop into Omar's which was well and truly shut.
I've been away for a few weeks, what's the story on Omar's? Have they given up the struggle? ______________________________________ Smile! It confuses people
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Posted: Sat 31 Jul, 2010, 19:08 pm Post subject:
Teddyboy wrote:
But is the West Bank really Luxor?
Us West B(w)ankers loath having to visit the 'dark-side similar to North and South of the Thames, but in reverse, we only go to buy 'choicy bits of food and spend far too much money...
and oogle tourists...
PS: any fish?...'a long walk to metro MD....
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Posted: Sat 31 Jul, 2010, 22:23 pm Post subject:
I have been to Metro ot whatever it is called, very busy today. I actually bought mushrooms, broccoli and radichio lettuce. I am in heaven. Couldn't find peanut butter but one can't have everything. The meat and cheese counters looked great and everything was frozen in the frozen food section. Fruit and veg a little more expensive than the market stalls but everything else is same as Omars etc.
I will certainly be using it, give Omars a miss in future unless they buck their ideas up considerably.
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Posted: Sat 31 Jul, 2010, 22:52 pm Post subject:
It's strange, and perhaps a little sad, that the expats are raving about having a decent supermarket here - it's been needed for ages by the local middle class, and at last they have got one! ______________________________________ Stan
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 0:40 am Post subject:
I went in tonight with friends and it was heaving! And definitely NOT with ex-pats Stan!
I did buy the peppers........ lovely big ones....... and the steak and tinned cherries (have no idea what I will do with them, but I love cherries)
Sadly, it was so busy I did not have the opportunity to have a good nosey around..... won't return until the newness has worn off. But the meats, cheeses, dairy and fresh produce all looked great
And they did have peanut butter, crunchy too!!
The meat was a good price and cheaper per kilo than the local butchers (well, except for the small government ones just opened up) and all priced and labelled in english for those who cannot read arabic.
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 7:12 am Post subject:
That's excellent news!!
Bet Countessa will be stuck in the cleaning aisle for days to come!
If it's anything like up here - far better to go early in the day, before 12, later on in the day all our supermarkets are full with people just 'browsing'. And in the summer months every evening they're full of all the country bumpkins up on their holidays.
Will probably be worse with Ramadan coming up too - shopping is a nightmare at the moment with men buying whole trolley loads of oil, another trolley load of sugar, and a third trolley full of rice. Really is amazing to see! ______________________________________
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 8:52 am Post subject:
Metro is "cheaper"? All I can say is Metro has a great racket going there in Luxor. They are one of the most expensive supermarkets in Egypt and they got you all believing they are cheap! You must really get overcharged from the local markets to call Metro "cheap"!
Metro is owned by the same company as Kheir Zaman. We have both supermarkets in our neighborhood. Every product that is carried in both supermarkets is more expensive at Metro. For example, Vitrac qamr al-din is 10.25LE at Khair Zaman right now and 10.95LE at Metro. I only buy things at Metro I can't find elsewhere or when they are on sale.
And don't even get me started on the suggestion that their plastic wrapped vegetables are "very fresh." The only produce I buy there are the Italian lemons.
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 9:08 am Post subject:
Sometimes something might seem cheap(er) on the surface but that can be a really false economy cause if you have to spend all day going here there and everywhere by the time you add the cost of using the car or transit, parking, your time, your energy and effort the difference between 10.25LE and 10.95LE isn't substantial enough to warrant the running all over the place to find something else unless it is of sufficiently higher quality and I can't live without it.
I know that there is an entire philosophy of going to numerous places to shop because of 'sale' prices but unless you're in that area anyway, enjoy shopping or are getting some other personal perk out of going to a bizzillion places to shop personally I'd rather take the time I'd save by getting it all in one place and use the time I saved for doing something I really enjoyed (which, for me, definitely isn't shopping).
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 10:23 am Post subject:
Luxor is more expensive than any where I know of, even in the local fruit and vegetable souk. If the new Metro is charging the same prices that they charge in Cairo it would be cheaper than any where else in Luxor! ______________________________________ “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 11:19 am Post subject:
Well right or wrong, I'm definitely a city girl, and I can't handle local buthcers, fismongers etc, and get easily confused even in a fresh fruit and veg shop! So I'm certainly over the moon by these news and can't wait to get back to Luxor to try it out! ______________________________________
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 11:32 am Post subject:
Kevininabydos wrote:
Luxor is more expensive than any where I know of, even in the local fruit and vegetable souk. If the new Metro is charging the same prices that they charge in Cairo it would be cheaper than any where else in Luxor!
Too blinkin' true! The price of a cauliflower off the man near Saladin Square still rankles 5 years later!
If I pop across the road to my local 'supermarket' (their words not mine - I'd struggle to call it a mini-market) Milk costs at least 50 piastres more than the same brand in Metro (and Metro costs more than the same brand in Carrefour) so I save money by doing a big shop once a month and buy a whole carton of packs of milk.
Veggies may be cheaper from my local veggie man - but I wouldn't stoop to buy his muck. And he only has carrots, potatoes, onions, courgettes, tomatoes and balady peppers and nowt else. It really is muck too. Wouldn't feed his veg to my dog! Much more choice in Metro, and (at least in my local) so much better quality.
Maybe if we had a local veggie souk - but the closest one we have is quite a fair way off, andI don't have time to go out there and trawl about and fight over a Tater with all those other ladies when Metro is closer.
Mr G is a Metro addict, stops in there most evenings and is always hunting out the bargains. ______________________________________
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Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2010, 12:19 pm Post subject:
Glyphdoctor wrote:
Metro is "cheaper"? All I can say is Metro has a great racket going there in Luxor. They are one of the most expensive supermarkets in Egypt and they got you all believing they are cheap! You must really get overcharged from the local markets to call Metro "cheap"!
Your probably right Glyph
Im so glad a place like this as opened, not for me, but for the Egyptians, most of the small shops/supermarkets rip their own off (Egyptians) I find that most Egyptians dont argue they just pay the price believing that the shop keeper is honest. most items here have a different price range from 25 piasta to 2le more than it should be, even most of the shops are still selling their cigarettes from 50 piastas to 1le more than they should be, at least at a supermarket like this the price is marked.
Omars before was selling mineral water from italy - price (not marked) 17.25le - scotch pan scrub (not marked) 14.50le and most of the imported sweets (not marked) at huge inflated prices.
The only 2 other supermarkets which seems honest with prices is Arkrights (everything is price marked) and Kimo supermarket (goods not marked) ______________________________________
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