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In Turkey, you will be bewildered with a variety of stores waiting for you with goods retailing in many ranges and quality-wise there is no compromise. The staff and the distribution of fresh and stored goods are aesthetically pleasing, you will love to shop around and discover the different sections in each store whenever you will visit supermarkets.
They are spread out in a beautiful language with extremely friendly people welcoming you to try out different stuff; sometimes they offer you Turkish tea along the way so you can have a happy shopping. If you want to know which supermarket is your best bet, you should read the context below to find out as we are going to briefly talk about some major supermarket chains that are present all over Turkey and are the most renowned ones where people place their trust in.
One of the most renowned and commonly found supermarket chains are A101 stores, which are found in every single spot of Turkey as the popularity of this store started in 2013. The founder of A101 supermarket chains is Turgut Aydin Holding and it is a form of the discount retail market. The best part about A101 is that you will never leave it empty-handed, from fresh vegetables and fruits to your personal hygiene goods, each and everything is found there.
The stores sell out most of their stock in just one day because locals especially love to shop from these superstores. There are more than 7000 chains of A101 currently spread all over the country and countless will be opened in coming years too, these supermarket stores are your go-to whenever you need anything on a rush basis even.
For high-end customers, who want imported groceries and goods in detail, there is a supermarket in every corner of Turkey known as Migros shopping center. Migros is a high-end chain of supermarkets providing all types of goods such as normal groceries ranging to luxury ones and you will be able to find various types of fresh meat and butcher section, Turkish cuisines, a huge range of alcoholic beverages, and much more in a normal Migros center even.
They provide quality and relatively expensive goods as compared to other supermarket chains such as A101 etc. You will be able to find many organic products as well here and fruits that are not easily available in other markets so Migros is your best bet if you are used to buying organic and high-end groceries. Migros has opened their very own shopping mall in Beylikduzu as well, providing a wider range and shopping experience for everyone.
Coming back to discounted retail supermarket stores, SOK is also an example of supermarkets in Turkey that fall under the radar of plenty of people who want to do budget-friendly grocery shopping. These markets are spread out all over 81 provinces of Turkey almost and up to 7000 stores are present right now.
If you can’t visit the store in person to avoid the pandemic or even just get your groceries at home, then there is an online shopping option from SOK as well as the internet stores sell everything at the same price according to your area. Alcoholic beverages are not sold here as it is a normal grocery store but you will find a good range of fresh and packed goods from fruits to cleaning supplies. If you are an oldie then you might find some Turkish brands that are quite old now and still sell at SOK markets.
If you want to live in Turkey and have a good lifestyle then knowing about the good grocery stores around you is a very important thing. BIM supermarkets are also one of the most budget-friendly options to get instant groceries from basic items of food to consumer packaged goods at very good prices. There are more than 10,000 stores all over Turkey now and BIM is also located in Morocco and Egypt! How cool?
BIM doesn’t offer an online shopping store for now but they offer grocery shopping and help staff to every corner of the country so everyone can have a good experience every time. There are about 700 different types of products sold in the stores currently and they sell special deals sometimes at the stores on a weekly basis to attract people for a package deal and have them buy the stuff they need conveniently.
Carrefour supermarkets are not just present in Turkey but over the world globally. The shopping experience in these supermarket chains is amazing and you can notice that in the name Carrefour it is written SA in the end which means Sabanci, who is the owner of the Carrefour brand in Turkey. There are a variety of goods sold in Carrefour shopping stores in Turkey ranging from glassware, cosmetics, electronics, textiles, books, food items, and cleaning supplies as well.
Sometimes you might find special goods being available as a deal too, and there is alcohol sold in these supermarkets as well, just not online as in Turkey it’s a law that selling alcohol is illegal. It’s a very elite brand and people love to shop from Carrefour if they want to buy detailed groceries in which they need special products that are not sold generally.