Grocery shopping during MCO
During this MCO, Ban and I were buying chap fan for lunch and cooking for dinner most of the time. The exceptions were few.
I remember there were reports of panic buying few days before the first phase of MCO was announced. Grocery delivery slots were all booked until the end of time (it was still so about 3 weeks ago). Yet, Ban and I knew we had to go out to shop. He had a good idea: shop at Oliver Gourmet at 3 Damansara. It's generally more expensive than Tesco and Jaya Grocer and so should be the least crowded.
He was correct: there were few people at Oliver when we arrived around lunch time on the day before MCO kicked in. So we lunched at Sushi Tei and then shopped at Oliver. There were gradually more customers as we shopped but still not crowded. Thank goodness.
Since then, besides Oliver, we also tried shopping at Jaya Grocer at three different locations: Mutiara Tropicana, Centrepoint and Starling Mall. Jaya Grocer and Tesco had something that Oliver didn't have: lactose-free milk and so we had to try. We quickly gave up on the Mutiara branch: it was already a popular outlet under normal circumstances and even more so during MCO. It was rare to get carpark spot. Centrepoint branch was less crowded (than Starling's) but smaller.
So as of now, I prefer to go to Jaya Grocer at Starling Mall because parking wasn't an issue, it's quite a large grocery store, not crowded (at least not during the times I shopped), and on top of taking temperature and sanitising customers' hands, they also gave plastic gloves. Ban prefers Oliver Gourmet because it was the least crowded.
I remember there were reports of panic buying few days before the first phase of MCO was announced. Grocery delivery slots were all booked until the end of time (it was still so about 3 weeks ago). Yet, Ban and I knew we had to go out to shop. He had a good idea: shop at Oliver Gourmet at 3 Damansara. It's generally more expensive than Tesco and Jaya Grocer and so should be the least crowded.
He was correct: there were few people at Oliver when we arrived around lunch time on the day before MCO kicked in. So we lunched at Sushi Tei and then shopped at Oliver. There were gradually more customers as we shopped but still not crowded. Thank goodness.
Since then, besides Oliver, we also tried shopping at Jaya Grocer at three different locations: Mutiara Tropicana, Centrepoint and Starling Mall. Jaya Grocer and Tesco had something that Oliver didn't have: lactose-free milk and so we had to try. We quickly gave up on the Mutiara branch: it was already a popular outlet under normal circumstances and even more so during MCO. It was rare to get carpark spot. Centrepoint branch was less crowded (than Starling's) but smaller.
So as of now, I prefer to go to Jaya Grocer at Starling Mall because parking wasn't an issue, it's quite a large grocery store, not crowded (at least not during the times I shopped), and on top of taking temperature and sanitising customers' hands, they also gave plastic gloves. Ban prefers Oliver Gourmet because it was the least crowded.
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