Overpriced store

Date: 4/21/2018

By AhmedElyamani

I find online a grocery store that sells and interesting food item that I wanted. I go to the store the next day. It’s next to a clothes store called “U <=> U”. The store itself I don’t remember what it is called, but outside they have a big green McDonallds banner that says that they sell mcDonalds buns. I enter the store and the first section is just a normal supermarket (but with more interesting items). Then there is what seems to be a VIP section. I first enter through a room which looks like a bedroom. It might have been some sort of spa, because there was a woman was getting a massage on the other bed. An interesting, nice looking, but not exceptionally beautiful woman looks towards me. I think about the nature of her job, but not for long. I have to take off my shoes to go through the VIP section of the store, which I now do. The VIP section looks kind of like bonne el ghally, and interestingly, there is a bonne ellghally café just next to this store. I look at the items sold here. There is some sort of bakeries on display, but they don’t look neither fresh nor appetizing. There are some very strange items as well. Dried fishes. Dried chickens. A small, square shaped slice of pizza. Dried macaroni, and other items. Nothing looks interesting to me but I’m under some sort of pressure or obligation to buy something. I tell the woman behind the counter, who’s wearing nikab, that I’d like the slice of pizza and some chicken. She proceeds to give me the dried macaronis instead, to which I get a bit frustrated and explain to her that it’s not my order. “But that slice of pizza is 80 EGP”, says she. A crazy amount for something like that. I refuse to buy them. For the chicken she then proceeds to try to give me dried fishes instead, so I corrected her but she refused to give me something else. She says something sarcastic in an unintelligible language to someone there. I’m embarrassed, stressed, and annoyed so I leave. Everyone is looking at me. On exiting the front door I remember that I had forgotten my slippers inside. I go back through the store but now EVERYONE is really looking at me.