LIDL

Recently we discovered that there is LIDL not far from Piraeus station and today we paid a visit.
The objective was to see the prices there. Comparing to the situation in UK, the supermarket prices in Greece are significantly higher and I was wondering if it is just because I have been to wrong supermarkets or because indeed the food prices in Greek supermarkets are dear.

Starting by the conclusion, Greek LIDL prices are not bad, but are still more expensive than in British LIDL.

I bought, for example, a box of green tea (25 bags) for 1.29 euros. That is OK by Greek standard, but in UK, if I remember well, it was around 90 pence. The ALDI used to sell 50 bags of green tea for a pound, although they were simple bags without handle, the type very popular in UK, but you don't see here in Greece.


A small jar of jam was 1.39 euros, cheap by Greek standard, but in UK, it wasn't more than a pound.


A bag of pasta, 500g, was competitive 40 cents, at the same level as in UK.


Only thing I found cheaper was the shopping bag; small bag was only 2 cents, while in UK it is 3 pence.

The following items are difficult to compare to the British counterparts, but should be useful to compare with other Greek supermarkets.

This is semi-hard cheese to grate on pasta or on rice (the label says 'hard cheese', but not as hard as parmiggiano reggiano or pecorino romano). It is 8.99euro a kilo and tasted all right.

This is Kaseri cheese, 0.85euro a kilo. I have not eaten other kaseri cheese raw and cannot tell if it is all right or not.

Sheep milk yogurt, 320g for 0.89 euro.

I have not compared yet the price with other supermarkets.

By and large, I was not impressed by the level of price at LIDL as much as I used to be in Britain, but I will go back to pick up some competitive goods to supplement my shopping at Carrefour.

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I see there are many people arrive at my blog searching LIDL GREECE. Here is the Lidl Greece website.

http://www.lidl.gr/

There is the shop locator section on this site, but I am afraid it is only in Greek (but of course you can use Google translation).

Curtains

These days, we managed to get curtains for two of our three door/windows. One of the three does not have curtain rail and we need to think of another solution.

In searching for curtains, we first tried some shops. The cheapest we could find was 5euro per metre cloth and 4euro per metre for sewing work. According to the shops, we need 4 metres of cloths per window/door, which brings the cost up to 36 euros per one curtain.

After having asked suggestions from friends, we looked around and found 1 ready-made piece for 20 euros. I needed to shorten it to adjust to our glass door length.

And then, I even found 7 euro ready made piece and for these we managed to cover two glass doors.

7 euro ones are not fancy (20 euro piece is pretty handsome), but not ugly at all.

Great shopping.

Xirouchakis Electronics

Went to buy electric plug adapters from UK to Greece in a electric parts shop Xirouchakis.




It costs 2 euros per one here.

Currently Google Map is not working well; zoom out to see where they are (yellow signs). The one in the above photo is on Korokotronis street.




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P.S. This is another Xirouchakis of Akti Moutsopoulou.

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Brolias House Goods Shop in Piraeus

When I lived in UK, I used to buy soaps, shampoos, papers, disposable kitchen goods like freezer bags from pound shops (e.g. Poundland and 99p Shop) or discount sellers (e.g. LIDL and ALDI).

In Piraeus no such thing exists and home goods like soaps are bloody expensive in supermarkets, like double or triple the prices I used to pay in UK (according to the current currency exchange rate).

But I found an alternative: Brolias in Nikitas Street.



Not always quite as cheap as in UK, but the prices here are very competitive. If you have the same problem as mine, I recommend you to try this shop (but always check the price: not everything is the cheapest).





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