Hipermas - A store, owned by Wal-Mart, that is almost identical to Wal-Mart. Most things are in Spanish, and the prices are in Colones, but you can find a LOT of things that you would find in a typical WM back home. The prices are another thing, but I've said enough about that already.
PriceSmart - Basically a Costco or Sams' Club-type store. You purchase a membership. (Funny anecdote: The guy took my photo for the membership card with me holding Ava. So in my picture it's my face with Ava's face right beside me! That cracked me up.) Anyway, you can find lots of interesting things here - better prices on meat, donuts (haven't seen them anywhere else), frozen stuff, and most importantly - coffee creamer. French vanilla. Everything else I've seen is powdered, and it's just not the same.
Pequeno Mundo - This is pretty similar to Big Lots/T.J. Maxx stores. Today we made a quick run there to purchase plastic bins that will hopefully better organize our medicine closet at the Team House. Kelly is working on getting everything organized before the next medical team comes. They also have cheap furniture (relative to the other stores), lamps, baskets, clothes, cleaning supplies, etc. There are also a few kids toys and home decor stuff.
Universal - This is where a lot of the girls' Christmas presents were purchased. It's 95% toy store and 5% art store. The perfect mix for our girls! The prices again aren't cheap, but we were able to find a few things for each girl.
MegaSuper - The closest thing to a local grocery store that we have. It's pretty close to our house, only about a 10 minute walk, just around the corner. They have lots of standard grocery stuff, diapers, bread, etc. You can also pay your electric, water, cell phone, internet bills there... at the cash register. Yup, we pay our bills at the grocery store.
There are about 1,000 other stores that we haven't ventured into yet, but I know they exist!
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