The New GIANT Hypermarket

The easter holidays are almost over, as usual the kids are eating their way through whatever is in the fridge, cupboards and the pantry! So much so that my normal once a week shopping routine has had to be broken and today we finally made it to the new hypermarket Giant at Tasek Rimba. After going past it for several days and waiting for all the long Queues of cars going in to die down, we finally made it and even found parking quite easily.

So what's the big deal? It's a new concept of shopping in Brunei everything on sale under one roof, although their range of shops could have been greater rather than just the normal selling hairstuff for girls, tudongs and kains. For kids there is one play area in the middle which is quite full right now because of the school holidays. The seating area for the foodcourt which hosts around 6 or 7 stalls seems quite limited. But there are other eateries such as KFC and Jollibee and another Malaysian Food Outlet selling roast chicken for $14 per chicken!!

Yes so the place is huge and some items are cheap and the range of goods on offer especially Malaysian made products is quite tremendous, but.. I don't think it will beat Supasave in any way for Australian or UK products. Even their vegetables and range of fruits at 2.30pm today were looking a quite sad and very layu! So Hua Ho and Pasar Burong will still be a necessity. From time to time their offers might be worth a visit, Their beef products did not impress me at all, Supasave still a winner in that area nor did their bakery were on par with that at Suapsave, obviously it caters for the masses being a hypermarket but I have seen better Hypermarkets overseas. For now it will be a novelty to most and parking will be scarce for the next week or so, but most of their prices are at the same range as those offered by the other supermarkets. Obviously for us the consumers it will be good as there is now more competition and better prices all round.