I meant to post about this last month, and never got around to it.
We do about 90% of our food shopping at La Sirena in San Cristobal for many years. Sometimes when we're in SD we go to Nacional or Plaza Lama, but not often. When you go to the same store for a long time, you get to know their prices on some items.
We had to go out to Duarte Hwy to buy roof tiles/tejas, and on the way back we passed the big La Sirena on Luperon, and stopped to buy a few things. They had a lot of things that San Cristobal didn't, so I found myself up and down every aisle 'looking'. [Bought a scrumptious Australian leg of lamb].
They actually had good US bread flour, at an outrageous price of about 450 pesos for 5 pounds, which had me looking at their flour section. The week before, I had bought 2 small packages of yuca flour in La Sirena San Cristobal for 99 pesos. It wasn't on sale, was regular shelf price. Imagine my surprise to see the same yuca flour in SD's store for 169 pesos. Substantial price difference, it puzzled me.
The next day two of Mr. AE's brothers came out to visit with their wives, and I mentioned the yuca flour prices. Apparently I was the only one who didn't know that the prices in their stores varies with the location - they charge what the market will bear. I guess we'll stick to San Cristobal store, seems there are less ricos in the area so the prices are better.
We do about 90% of our food shopping at La Sirena in San Cristobal for many years. Sometimes when we're in SD we go to Nacional or Plaza Lama, but not often. When you go to the same store for a long time, you get to know their prices on some items.
We had to go out to Duarte Hwy to buy roof tiles/tejas, and on the way back we passed the big La Sirena on Luperon, and stopped to buy a few things. They had a lot of things that San Cristobal didn't, so I found myself up and down every aisle 'looking'. [Bought a scrumptious Australian leg of lamb].
They actually had good US bread flour, at an outrageous price of about 450 pesos for 5 pounds, which had me looking at their flour section. The week before, I had bought 2 small packages of yuca flour in La Sirena San Cristobal for 99 pesos. It wasn't on sale, was regular shelf price. Imagine my surprise to see the same yuca flour in SD's store for 169 pesos. Substantial price difference, it puzzled me.
The next day two of Mr. AE's brothers came out to visit with their wives, and I mentioned the yuca flour prices. Apparently I was the only one who didn't know that the prices in their stores varies with the location - they charge what the market will bear. I guess we'll stick to San Cristobal store, seems there are less ricos in the area so the prices are better.