Simply is gone, yes, near Cul de Sac, and in Sandy Ground. Both places are empty. As others have said, Petite Casino has a good selection, and they have FREE delivery -- at the SAME prices as in the store -- for orders over 50E, in the Orient Village area. For larger grocery stores, here's our rundown from this week so far
Super U--where the Match used to be in Howell Center. Usually very busy, but they have a HUGE parking lot. Take a quarter, which you can use to unlock the big grocery carts, or use the nifty rolling carts, which have an expandable handle. Super U is CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN!!!! Did I say they are clean???? Really. They have some specials in a bin a bit after the front door. We got some great marked down, short dated brie and blue cheese there the other day. Their selection of cheap wines is by far the best we've seen on the island. They have a huge selection of produce, lots of French label products, great looking meats. No free shopping bags, but they have GREAT HEAVY reuseable bags for .5 E. Buy one or two and reuse--great bags! Great bakery in the same shopping center--An Pain Gourmande.
Carrefour--Pretty close to Princess Casino, thus on the Dutch side. Reasonable amount of parking. HUGE cheese and pate, etc. section, with some great packages of assorted cheeses of all kinds, in one package. We haven't bought one yet, but they have 1/2 fresh Caribbean lobster, ready for you to pop on the grill, or under the broiler. LOTS of other 'goodies', if you like meats, cheeses, pates. Not a lot of American products, but a great selection of French stuff. It could have just been today, but I didn't like the excessive smell of fish when we walked in. The fish in the cases, like tuna, etc., looked wonderful though.
Grand Marche by Marks--NOT close to Orient at ALL, but if you want US products, the best place to get them. Store smells clean, lots of sandwich stuff. They have some Carrefour brands there, but it appears that most of the Carrefour brands are now available pretty much at the Carrefour. They no longer have free grocery bags there, so bring your own, or pay for them.
For me, my favorite market at the moment is Super U, Eric is probably Carrefour, but we still usually make our first stop at the Grand Marche. For what it's worth, Eric ran into Jeannie from Shop n Drop at Carrefour the other day! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
Oh, and by the way, the former Gourmet Marche in Simpson Bay has been gone for a long time. They appear to be working on that building gow, but nothing open yet. I think it's supposed to be a casino?? The former Gourmet Marche in Cupecoy is not a Carrefour Express. We did not go inside there.
We have not been to Maho Market, or the Market Garden, as I don't care for them in general.
