Day out at Sligro

Today the temperature outside was about 11 deg. Celcius, a bit cloudly but no rain. It’s the start of a quiet weekend – except for a birthday party that Zim wants to attend in Zoetermeer, Fiz wanting to watch movie and the lawn that need to be mowed finally.

Late morning today, we went for our grocery shopping at Sligro, a food wholesaler. This is the front of the store about 5 minutes drive from our home. This branch, one out of 43 stores in Holland offers both cash-and-carry and delivery services to restaurants and bars, volume users, company caterers, small and medium-sized enterprises and smaller retailers. It is only open for members, mainly those in the restaurant and food retailers, but they also give special membership for expat living in The Hague. Items are sold on bulk (obviously) and generally are cheaper than outside. Opening hours start very early from 6.30 am. till 5 pm. In this particular store, it even got a small café on the first floor and serves free drinks and snack to customers. We normally do our bulk buy here. Prawn and mussel are also good buys as they look much better than what we found in other shops.