Have you ever gone to a supermarket, spent almost an hour and $100 or more, only to find when you get home that you really don’t have anything to eat?
That’s exactly how I feel every time I go to a supermarket in the US. Somehow, the food I buy (and the food that I can [...]
As an ongoing post, I’d like to provide some current grocery costs from receipts of trips to Perimercado, a popular and common supermarket in Costa Rica. These figures are straight off the receipt from May 2009. They include all taxes.
Rice: 1378 colones
Milk: 706 colones
Coca Cola (individual serving in plastic bottle): 602 colones
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Generally you’re supposed to tip the people that bag your groceries in a Costa Rica supermarket. But in some supermarkets, there’s a can with a coin slot in each bagging area, literally right next to where the bagger stands. The first couple times I went to a supermarket I thought these cans were for the [...]
These prices are recent as of May 2009, in the downtown San Jose Costa Rica mercados and amongst the street vendors.
Potatoes: the best prices I’ve seen are 3 kilos for 1000 colones. This basically means a pretty large bag for under $2 usd.
Mangos: around 500 colones per kilo. In other words, less than $1 usd [...]