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Spanish supermarkets are convenient and there are usually three or four in the larger towns. Most are open from 9.00am until 8.00pm or 9.00pm at night, but are often closed on Sundays. The exception to this is in the coastal areas when supermarkets open on Sundays during the summer. Don’t plan to do your weekly shopping on a fiesta day as the supermarkets will be closed.

Local supermarkets:

•    Mercadona (where the Spanish shop)
•    Mas y Mas (can be expensive)
•    Consum (a good range of English products but also expensive)
•    Lidl and Aldi (the German bargain supermarkets)
•    Quick Save (not strictly a supermarket but sells all English products)

There are also hypermarkets on the outskirts of the major towns that in addition to food sell hardware, clothes, toys, gardening products, books, electrical items, CDs and DVDs and everything else you’d expect to find in an English hypermarket.

Hypermarkets:

•    Euroski (excellent for choice and reasonably priced)
•    Carrefour (another good hypermarket)

Spanish supermarkets aren’t that marketing orientated and are only just beginning to introduce special offers and discounts. This is a good thing if you’re the sort of person who’s enticed by the cheap price of an item you don’t need.

It’s always cheaper to buy the supermarket’s own brand products, which are just as good as the labelled ones. There is often less choice of brands – usually 2 or 3 as opposed to often 5 or 6 in a British supermarket. This makes shopping a lot quicker!

The Spanish love packaging and don’t seem to be particularly green. Fresh fruit and vegetables are often heavily packaged so if you’d rather help the environment buy yours at the local market and take your own bags or a trolley on wheels (all regular market-goers must have one).

If you pay for your shopping with any type of card you will need to show some form of identification. This isn’t just because you’re a foreigner – you’ll see the Spanish showing their ID cards when they pay too.

Beware of thieves in supermarkets and in the car parks. Keep your handbag closed and on you at all times (not in the trolley) as foreigners shopping are a prime target. Women with children are particularly vulnerable – be careful when loading your shopping into the car and keep your bag with you.

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