Amazon
Whatever your feelings are about Amazon’s all-encompassing, market-dominating status (it’s certainly a complicated one), there’s no denying that if you’re watching your dirhams, bulk buying household essentials such as toilet roll, mouthwash, cleaning products and the like from the site makes sense. The lightning-fast speed of delivery is of course also a bonus.
Fresh Catch
In the market for spanking fresh fish at a brilliant price? Let us introduce the uninitiated among you to Fresh Catch. This online fishmonger stocks an impressive range of products, from interesting local fish to high quality imported species, as well as fresh crabs, lobster and langoustines, clams and mussels, frozen goods and ready-prepared items (fish burgers, tempura, dumplings and the like) all at a very competitive price. They also offer free shipping on orders over Dhs50. Sea bass en papilllote for dinner, anyone?
Kibsons
While they might have started out as purveyors of fruit and veg at wholesale prices, online grocery store Kibsons’ offering has expanded exponentially over the last few years and now includes everything from meat and fish to speciality diet fare (their vegan range is particularly impressive), household, pet and baby care items, arts and crafts essentials, a sizeable selection of Sainsburys products from the UK, ever-growing bounty of fresh ingredients and more.
Kibsons deserve props for their excellent customer service, ease of ordering, free same day delivery across the UAE and the way they champion local food businesses, from Dough it Yourself’s pizza boxes to Eat Better Foods’ vegan wraps, Soule Soup’s soups and For Real Dough’s frozen cookie dough.
One thing to note: do take care to check the quantity of products you’re ordering; the difference between five apples and five kilos of apples is pretty significant.
