Punta Cana Food Shopping

Unfortunately the plan to build a Jumbo supermarket by Ilumel has been abandoned or at least postponed. The new shopping centre being build by the Coco Loco crossing will include a supermarket but I don't know any more details.

Meanwhile, we combine shopping for vegetables at the Punta Cana Foundation and the Saturday morning "market" outside MovieMax, the fruit stalls in Ver?n, Supermercado Manzanillo in Ver?n, and La Marqueta on the Ver?n-B?varo road. The Caribe Supermarket past Friusa is bigger, cleaner and newer, but its selection is not worth the drive all the way from Punta Cana village.

Delicana is so expensive we only use it for emergencies.

Yeah, that's the big drawback of living here. How comes there isn't some entrepreneur that wants to make some money on this market?

Go figure.

Seriously. I am so frustrated with the food selection. I will only buy my meat from the Deli in Punta Cana Village because the local grocery stores turn off their refrigeration units at night. I have bought many items from both La Marqueta and Supermercado Manzanillo that have turned out to be spoiled once I got them home. ::sigh:: This is the kind of stuff that make me miss the capital...