Watch Out, it's coming to Santo Domingo!

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donP

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MiamiDRGuy said:
... they will purchase the company and rebrand it to WalMart then Lurpeon location will be the first store that will open 24 hours just like in the states.
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Yes, just like in the States...of course...

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MiamiDRGuy

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Criss Colon said:
I'LL TAKE YOUR ANSWER AS A "NO" THEN.

YOU "LIVE" THERE, YOU "VISIT" HERE.
Anyone who thinks you can sell one banana here for 5 pesos, don't know "MIERDA" about the DR!!!

It's "OK", most posters here just "Visit" the DR,like you do.

Just call me "The DRGUY"!!!
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ps, you do not have to include your"My wife's family has colmados, AND rental property" in ALL your posts!

We GOT it, their "SPECIAL"!!!!

Cinco pesos "Por Un Guineo".:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
En Su Mente TRANSPARENTE!!!!
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I think I will ingore you at all cost, you are very rude and you think you are better than me, I don't care. I know what I am doing. I dont need to tell you more about myself or what I have or anything. If you don't believe me, that is your problem.

Nothingless, I do know DR alot becuase I live and visit there OFTEN so do me a favor dont ever JUDGE me, ever.

Thank you.
 
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Criss Colon said:
I'LL TAKE YOUR ANSWER AS A "NO" THEN.

YOU "LIVE" THERE, YOU "VISIT" HERE.
Anyone who thinks you can sell one banana here for 5 pesos, don't know "MIERDA" about the DR!!!

It's "OK", most posters here just "Visit" the DR,like you do.

Just call me "The DRGUY"!!!
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

aks.,CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

ps, you do not have to include your"My wife's family has colmados, AND rental property" in ALL your posts!

We GOT it, their "SPECIAL"!!!!

Cinco pesos "Por Un Guineo".:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
En Su Mente TRANSPARENTE!!!!
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Criss your loud you speak your mind you are rude crude but you speak the truth. We love your responses keep it up. Your fan club. JJJJJJJJJJJJ
 
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nigrarosa said:
Criss your loud you speak your mind you are rude crude but you speak the truth. We love your responses keep it up. Your fan club. JJJJJJJJJJJJ
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Ikea closed? What?

The Metro no longer work? What?

:cheeky:
 
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MiamiDRGuy said:
I think I will ingore you at all cost, you are very rude and you think you are better than me, I don't care. I know what I am doing. I dont need to tell you more about myself or what I have or anything. If you don't believe me, that is your problem.

Nothingless, I do know DR alot becuase I live and visit there OFTEN so do me a favor dont ever JUDGE me, ever.

Thank you.
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Ask someone to instruct you, up there in your home in MIAMI, on how to put me on "IGNORE"!!!

You are up there right now,...RIGHT?????????????

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Whoever posted my picture (#20) without my AUTHORIZATION, is in BIG TROUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hahahahaha

I kind of figured you like like this. :p:p:p



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So, about Walmart. First stop I made upon my return home. $261 later I left. Do not bring Walmart to the DR. I can't afford it.
 
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Xavier_Onassis said:
Publix is consistent and organized. They do not charge to use a Debit card in their ATMs. I don't buy all my groceries there, but Publix is neater, their store brands are better and the staff is friendlier. I am not fond of waiting behind a dozen other shoppers to buy $15 worth of stuff.
For chaos, some of the Winn Dixies are hard to beat.

One thing I have noticed from about three years ago: you used to go to a Tropical, Presidente or Price Choice supermarket, where nearly everyone is Latino, and there was this smell, a sort of mixture of spoiled milk and rotting lettuce, that was unmistakable.
Supermarkets in Mexico had a similar smell. The city markets had a similar smell, but there was also a smell of fried potatoes and tripas. At some point around 2012 or so, the smell vanished.
I know that supermarkets have some sort of air purification odor absorbing system that removed this smell, and I suspect that someone in the Country government retired the old Cubano health inspectors and perhaps hired their kids, who did not think a food market should smell like rotten lettuce and spoiled dairy.
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There is also always a particular weird smell in Dominican supermarkets (what I first smelled when I went for the first time to a supermarket in Madrid).

I don't know how they do it in the Netherlands, but there supermarkets do not smell, except for the (fake) bread baking smell.

Another thing the supermarkets should change here is the stupid music they are playing. They all play the same tunes and they think it motivates people to buy more. To me, it only annoys.

Most supermarkets in the Netherlands have come back from the stupid trick of forcing people a certain route through the store, they realized people choose their supermarkets based on how convenient they are to shop. The mayor chain in the Netherlands highly promotes their shopping app. You make the shopping list in the app, then choose to which of the 900 stores they have you will be going and it will sort the list for you to walk as less as possible. What they loose in impulse purchases they compensate by promoting offers on the app, get more customers due to convenient shopping, besides that impulse purchases are not very dutch-like (people shop with a list and stick to it). They also removed all the impuls purchase displays near the cashier, since many customers complaint about it, while often the children, waiting in line, would insist with their parents to buy that chocolate or candy or coloring book.

It's a cultural thing, but it works for the Netherlands (Tesco in the UK has the same philosophy).
 
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JDJones said:
What fun is it to have your shopping route preplanned?

Half the reason I go to the supermarket is for the social experience of looking at and meeting good looking girls.
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I always try to get out as fast as I can. In the Netherlands I could do the weekly shopping in less than 45 minutes, here it takes me close to two hours. My good looking girl stays home to look after our youngest one. I prefer supermarket shopping over baby sitting.
 
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Mauricio said:
There is also always a particular weird smell in Dominican supermarkets (what I first smelled when I went for the first time to a supermarket in Madrid).

I don't know how they do it in the Netherlands, but there supermarkets do not smell, except for the (fake) bread baking smell.

Another thing the supermarkets should change here is the stupid music they are playing. They all play the same tunes and they think it motivates people to buy more. To me, it only annoys.

Most supermarkets in the Netherlands have come back from the stupid trick of forcing people a certain route through the store, they realized people choose their supermarkets based on how convenient they are to shop. The mayor chain in the Netherlands highly promotes their shopping app. You make the shopping list in the app, then choose to which of the 900 stores they have you will be going and it will sort the list for you to walk as less as possible. What they loose in impulse purchases they compensate by promoting offers on the app, get more customers due to convenient shopping, besides that impulse purchases are not very dutch-like (people shop with a list and stick to it). They also removed all the impuls purchase displays near the cashier, since many customers complaint about it, while often the children, waiting in line, would insist with their parents to buy that chocolate or candy or coloring book.

It's a cultural thing, but it works for the Netherlands (Tesco in the UK has the same philosophy).
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When in Rome do like the Roman. If you do not like it go back to Netherlands.
 
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I have read that people buy more when the music is programmed to that end.
There are a couple of stores where they play really loud rap, and I buy my stuff and get the Hell out as soon as I can.
 
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i'm always cracking up at shopping in la sirena over christmas, as i walk around in shirts and flip flops, listening to "winter wonderland", "white christmas" and "let it snow".
 
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I like the queens of the SM

Mauricio said:
... the weekly shopping in less than 45 minutes, here it takes me close to two hours.
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Days are now getting hotter and hotter.
So, when I venture down into humid Las Terrenas I like to take a stroll in the air conditioned SM S?per Pola... :laugh:

[video=youtube;q1BPuLZ995M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1BPuLZ995M[/video]

OK, 'Lindo' is also good (almost nobody shopping there any more :rolleyes: ), but the girls are nicer at S?per Pola. :laugh: :laugh:

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Mauricio said:
There is also always a particular weird smell in Dominican supermarkets (what I first smelled when I went for the first time to a supermarket in Madrid).

I don't know how they do it in the Netherlands, but there supermarkets do not smell, except for the (fake) bread baking smell.

Another thing the supermarkets should change here is the stupid music they are playing. They all play the same tunes and they think it motivates people to buy more. To me, it only annoys.

Most supermarkets in the Netherlands have come back from the stupid trick of forcing people a certain route through the store, they realized people choose their supermarkets based on how convenient they are to shop. The mayor chain in the Netherlands highly promotes their shopping app. You make the shopping list in the app, then choose to which of the 900 stores they have you will be going and it will sort the list for you to walk as less as possible. What they loose in impulse purchases they compensate by promoting offers on the app, get more customers due to convenient shopping, besides that impulse purchases are not very dutch-like (people shop with a list and stick to it). They also removed all the impuls purchase displays near the cashier, since many customers complaint about it, while often the children, waiting in line, would insist with their parents to buy that chocolate or candy or coloring book.

It's a cultural thing, but it works for the Netherlands (Tesco in the UK has the same philosophy).
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Most of the large Dominican supermarket chains are actually owned by Spaniards, so maybe that's why they smell like the ones in Spain.

I think what you need is a Dutch supermarket, but maybe the only way for a Dutch style supermarket to exist in the DR an actual Dutch entrepreneur that is very close to his roots must start and develop the business.
 
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