Game is a store in Africa. To the best I can understand they are some sort of subsidiary of Walmart.
Nothing says Walmart on the exterior but the staff wear Walmart name tags.
It's pretty much what you have for a big box department store. From the pictures I have found online tthe one in Blantyre is more well stocked then others I have seen. This store and shop rite are the main store we will have to shop in for everyday things.
The reality is that it looks pretty western with different brands and the prices are marked in Malawian Kwatcha in the thousands so everything looks to be exorbitant. However the exchange rate is about 725 Kwatcha to 1 USD so that is not always true. Food seemed to cost similar to a little more then what we pay in the US and depends a bit on what brand you buy. US imports are always very expensive. local brands more reasonable.
The SIM Malawi director sent us a link to their online ad and yesterday I checked it out. They do sell American brand computers but at a pretty high comparative cost, also printers which was what we were really looking to check prices on. There are so many decisions to make about what is important to take and what we can buy locally in country.
However, and this might be the main point of this whole blog because I am a little food centric. 2 things in the ad caught by eye. Nacho Cheese Doritos where on sale at a price that might be just a little more then you would pay here when they are not on sale and brown sugar was listed in the ad. I had been told brown sugar would not be available and planned to convert recipes by using Molasses.
Looks like that wont have to be the case.
Today I am struggling with very first world thoughts and ideas. As most of you know we sold our house and today we closed on a townhouse here in Sioux Falls, which we plan to rent out for the duration of our service in Malawi.
It's pretty new and shiny, though not brand new and my mind's eye was busy decorating it and thinking about colors and furnishings that we are not in the market for. I know that I will have some time set aside to "nest" so to speak when we get to Malawi. My house there will not be the same but it will have decor and furnishings and I will get to select them.
I need to remember the phrase; This world is not my home.
Nothing says Walmart on the exterior but the staff wear Walmart name tags.
It's pretty much what you have for a big box department store. From the pictures I have found online tthe one in Blantyre is more well stocked then others I have seen. This store and shop rite are the main store we will have to shop in for everyday things.
The reality is that it looks pretty western with different brands and the prices are marked in Malawian Kwatcha in the thousands so everything looks to be exorbitant. However the exchange rate is about 725 Kwatcha to 1 USD so that is not always true. Food seemed to cost similar to a little more then what we pay in the US and depends a bit on what brand you buy. US imports are always very expensive. local brands more reasonable.
The SIM Malawi director sent us a link to their online ad and yesterday I checked it out. They do sell American brand computers but at a pretty high comparative cost, also printers which was what we were really looking to check prices on. There are so many decisions to make about what is important to take and what we can buy locally in country.
However, and this might be the main point of this whole blog because I am a little food centric. 2 things in the ad caught by eye. Nacho Cheese Doritos where on sale at a price that might be just a little more then you would pay here when they are not on sale and brown sugar was listed in the ad. I had been told brown sugar would not be available and planned to convert recipes by using Molasses.
Looks like that wont have to be the case.
Today I am struggling with very first world thoughts and ideas. As most of you know we sold our house and today we closed on a townhouse here in Sioux Falls, which we plan to rent out for the duration of our service in Malawi.
It's pretty new and shiny, though not brand new and my mind's eye was busy decorating it and thinking about colors and furnishings that we are not in the market for. I know that I will have some time set aside to "nest" so to speak when we get to Malawi. My house there will not be the same but it will have decor and furnishings and I will get to select them.
I need to remember the phrase; This world is not my home.
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