Which is a cheap supermarket in Dubai to buy all your food and daily needs?
Whenever you arrive in Dubai and you get a place to stay, the next thing to thing is which is a cheap supermarket in Dubai to go for your groceries?
Let’s start saying that is normal initially to spend hundreds of dirhams for a couple of items. To all of us happened at least once to buy one milk and one bread for 100aed.
It is normal because you are new in town and you don’t know how to buy items in a cheap supermarket in Dubai.
In Dubai there are all the supermarkets you want, from local stores to discounts, from a specific food store to the huge hypermarkets. You can find Indian supermarkets, Italian, French and Arabian all over town. There are organic supermarkets but also exotic ones. What about the difference between the local 24h daily supermarket and the huge hypermarkets.
So let’s summarise what you can find:
Daily shops. If you leave in a really densely populated area, you probably have in your building or just hundreds meters away a Daily shop. Most of the time they are open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Usually you can find a few products and they are perfect if you are missing something for your dinner receipt. They are usually expensive.
Local supermarkets. Local supermarkets are spread around town. You can find a Spinneys or a Choithram in almost every areas of town. Most of the time you can also find Carrefour, Grandiose or Geant markets in your area. You can fins a bigger selection compared to the daily shops and they are usually a bit cheaper. However they are less spread around and you might need to walk a bit or drive a couple of minutes. They are not usually open all day. However all supermarkets are working 7 days a week.
Hypermarkets. The cheap supermarket in Dubai is definitely a hypermarket. These are usually at a car distance. You can find them in some malls or around town. Most of the time you need to drive there. These are the supermarkets where you can find every imaginable products and with family boxes and offers. We can mention here chains like Carrefour, UnionCoop and Lulu.
Discounts supermarkets. Spread around town there also supermarkets that offer discounts or products without brand. These are good for all the products that you want to get and you are not really caring if they are from a know brand or not. You can save a lot in these markets. One of this is VIVA supermarkets.
Culture markets. There are also around town, with no chain, supermarkets focused on a particular culture and country of products. You can find Arabian supermarkets, Indian, British and others around town. you can find here the products you are buying at home or the exotic products you might need to cook a special dish.
Online stores. There are shops only ONLINE where you can buy special products. For example you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables on NRTC Fresh or Italian food on Casinetto.
Order supermarkets online. You can use APPs to order your groceries from the daily shops or from the local supermarkets around you. The most common is INSTASHOP, but you can use also Careem APP. They are going to the supermarket on your behalf and delivery at home your products in around 1 hours. You can also buy a huge grocery from Carrefour hypermarket but it will take at least 24hours to be delivered.