Thread: The where do you grocery shop and other questions thread

When you go to buy some groceries when you are in Thailand, where do you go?

Why do you go there?

Why do you not go to some places?

What places do you go for a specialty item and what items are they?

What store has the best selection?

Who has the best prices?

If you vote other, please tell us what other is.

If you go to a Thai market, tell us the name if you know it or maybe the location.

I only ever go where it's most convenient to shop, I wont go out of way to shop at a favorite store, that's for girlie's

Tesco Lotus usually.
Only because they have the best French Sticks, when they're just out of the oven they're great.
If a supermarket fixed their tills on the express lane so they wouldn't accept any more items after the maximum of 10, I'd go there though. Or maybe they could fix it so a trapdoor opens on the 12th or 13th item to go through and drops the selfish git into a pit of boiling oil.....or something. Just a thought.

I move around so much.
In bangers i prefer Carefour on rama4.
In Ranong Tesco lotus is the only game in town.
In Phuket I mix it up.
On the road I do local markets.

Having listened to a discourse this evening about how this is cheaper in Makro, but that in Tesco, but the Chinese place is cheaper for the other- and the local markets are good for sumfin else, and I forgot to mention Big C, well I reckon the mrs shops just about everywhere.

I shop in all of em.

I use the market on NernPlubWan.

Originally Posted by sabang

well I reckon the mrs shops just about everywhere

Same here

No Tops, Villa, Carefour or Foodland in our town.

Most of our shopping is from Makro. We've found they have a bigger and fresher assortment of vegetables, seafood and frozen goods.

Tesco's for items except fresh food. Our local Tescos fresh food leaves a lot to be desired.

Occasional trips to Big C.

Everyday essentials like milk and bread from 7 - 11.

My wife likes Big C best, but does shop at Tesco Lotus too, but they have not much farang shit, especially Lotus, and Big C does at least carry True US zip lock plastic freezer bags and not just them cheap Thai imitations like T/L..

I rarely go shopping unless I am on my own and want to buy something nice for breakfast for the kids and then I go to Foodland or Friendship supermarket in Pattaya.

When I am in Bangkok I shop mostly at Villa but an important issue for me is getting there with minimal hassle (traffic) and having close safe parking space.

Certainly no Foodland up here, but I do think foodie was the best supermarket in Pattaya.

I like Thai markets for veggies
Don't eat much western food so Lotus and carefour are convenient

Which grocery store in Pattaya has the best western foods and supplies?

we do buy all our veggies at Big C or Tesco/Lotus because they are better quality and do not have the live bugs in em. and just seem to be better.

I went to both of them today, but did not see that many specialty foods from the west. Someone told me there is a store on central road with lots of good dairy products and breads.

kind a quiet on this thread...bye bye!