i'm a brit, tell me about grocery prices

newteacher
By newteacher

I'm a bit freaked out by the special offer prices I saw on the Doha's LULU website. everything seems expensive. Can you tell me the cost of basic food items like slices bread, milk, tray of eggs, blocks of cheese, meat slices etc are in doha? is the supermarket shopping comparable to that in UK?

By rebel• 8 Aug 2010 15:49
rebel

drmana...hehe..no worries but keep my offer under consideration...u never know when u will change ur mind :D ,,,hey u know i have a college friend who never knew anything.now he is married and u can ask him the price of any grocery item or vegetable ,potato,tomato,onion,ginger etc etc,,,he gives the exact market price :P LMAO...

By hamadaCZ• 8 Aug 2010 15:42
Rating: 4/5
hamadaCZ

Cheaper than Sainsbury's stores.

By drmana• 8 Aug 2010 15:30
drmana

Thanks rebel but no thanks :-)

By rebel• 8 Aug 2010 15:29
rebel

drmana...u know all grocery item prices...why don't we start a grocery business on partnership ??? :P

By Colt45• 8 Aug 2010 14:44
Colt45

we have Spinney's that's due to open anytime soon at "The Mall"... or idk if it has opened already???? ;-)

By rEzyz• 8 Aug 2010 14:41
rEzyz

and then as compare to Lulu, villagio carefour is more cheaper!

By Colt45• 8 Aug 2010 14:37
Colt45

on the contrary, I think LuLu is one of the cheaper places for grocery shopping compared to ShopRite and MegaMart ;-)

With house rentals slumping, standard of living in Qatar is not very high when you compare if with other places in the world. It's how much you're willing to spend :-)

By happygolucky• 8 Aug 2010 14:28
happygolucky

whether you are freaked out or not...it would still be costly to import all that from UK, isn't it...:)

By anonymous• 8 Aug 2010 14:28
anonymous

srry...........misunderstood

By newteacher• 8 Aug 2010 14:25
newteacher

sorry, forgot to mention that I'm a brit moving to Doha shortly.

By rEzyz• 8 Aug 2010 14:23
rEzyz

loli, meant to say she have no idea over the prices of different items bcoz she is new to town...

By anonymous• 8 Aug 2010 14:17
anonymous

what difference will it make to the price if u r a brit...............

By newteacher• 8 Aug 2010 14:17
newteacher

Thank you very much, Zoobi, i will check it out

By Zoobi• 8 Aug 2010 14:17
Zoobi

check and compare prices on different super markets here

http://market.mbt.gov.qa/index.aspx

By rEzyz• 8 Aug 2010 14:09
Rating: 5/5
rEzyz

oops... there are no. of items, its takes whole day to tell you the price of each... prefer to buy from super marts rather than buying from groceries... ;b

there are special offer on many items within the supermarts/malls...

By newteacher• 8 Aug 2010 14:04
newteacher

Thanks very much. The prices you have quoted seem reasonable!

By drmana• 8 Aug 2010 14:03
Rating: 5/5
drmana

Slice bread = 3 QAR to 6QAR

Fresh Milk = Around 5-6 QAR per litre

Tray of eggs = around 13- 16 QAR for a tray of 30 Eggs

Blocks of cheese = Varies as per type of cheese

Meat slices = Australian mutton is cheapest and the range is too wide.

From what I hear from my sister in UK, grocery is quite cheaper here than UK.

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