There are two supermarkets called Bestmar and one (unrelated) called Besmar. The last has quite good produce always displayed out in front of the store. Would be happy to buy all our fruit and veg there but not really close enough for regular shopping. The two BesTmars have the same prices and specials, so they assure me, but the one we have never been to is farther from us but handier to reach by dolmuş - so we check it out today.
Realise we have been past it on the dolmuş a number of times but had never supposed it was a supermarket. Tacky drinking establishment maybe. Both J and the dolmuş driver assure me this is it, and indeed there is a minute BestMar sign over the door - totally dwarfed by huge advertisements for Jim Beam bourbon, including cutout bottles much bigger than the doorway.
Inside there is an unprepossessing grocery section in the back. And a large glass case of mostly untranslatable cigars, requiring , no doubt, more scrutiny in future. But pride of place goes to the large and well stocked liquor sector. Other than the specials the prices are no better - and sometimes worse - than our local store (though distinctly better than Canadian) but the range is fairly impressive. And they do have what we have been unable to find anywhere else. J.J Whitley blood orange gin. As well as, J discovers, Polish bison vodka. Bring on the summer weather!
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