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Togo Supermarket and Food Cost
Lome, Togo West Africa
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
A big supermarket is expensive and the smaller Togo neighborhood ones are cheaper.
I took a taxi to the Palm Beach Hotel, then went to the ATM machine around the corner, went into a large Grocery I think the name is Leader Price. Well, I am trying to buy a light bulb, and they seem to all be about 500-700 CFA. I buy a lot of canned vegetables, peas, kidney beans, string beans and Haricot Blancs, etc.
I have gone to the larger stores many times, Ramco is a big chain here, however I have only seen in Lome. It has continually confused me, as I finally am learning the best food prices.
I swear, I am almost positive the bigger the store, the more I pay, just opposite of what I would anticipate. I tend still go to the bigger stores because there is a bigger selection, however for any normal staples like Laundry soap or Insect sprays, I go to the small Togo owned stores.
The same insecticide is 2000 in the big store and 1000 in the corner store here in the neighborhood.
It is hard to understand, I think there is an European cultural variance here in operation. I remember in Belgium, I could buy bread from the Turkey people for half the price of the Belgium people and the Belgium people would still pay double.
Often price is not a sales point, there is some other economic variance here that is hard for me to understand.
Togo Supermarket and Food Cost
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