Shopping in Spain

You will be spoilt for choice when it comes to supermarkets and that is without considering the smaller independent UK ones.

The list is endless and include Mercadona, Consum, Mas y Mas, LIDL, ALDI, GAMA, Eroski, Carrefour, Super Cor and Super Valu, PLUS and Quick Save.

You will soon discover which stocks the type of things you want and at the price you want to pay, but generally a UK based product will be more expensive than a home grown variety.

In the bigger stores like Carrefour you will find that you can buy almost anything and not just food.

There are more commercial centres opening up now offering more choice in the one location and you can now find more electrical shops, home furnishings, furniture, books, and clothes including C&A, opticians including Spec Savers, sports shops, jewellers and lots of banks!

Shopping is also one of the best ways to start to pick up bits of the language as you will soon become familiar with the Spanish names for items that you buy on a regular basis and you will hear the language more in the shops and at the tills where you will see the cost of your purchases and hear them say the amount in Spanish.

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