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Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Try to avoid this store if you can. They replaced Carrefour and when Carrefour went, all the good (foreign) products went with them.

What's left are overpriced Korean products. I was comparing prices and found that my neighborhood "mart" is cheaper on most foods. I guess you're paying indirectly for parking privleges at Homever.

What really hurt me is the lack of reasonably priced foreign beer. Except for Miller Mad

, they don't sell foreign beer in cheaper 12 packs.

3,400 won for a 330 ml bottle of Guiness? Ouch!

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

Really? My Homever sells tortillas.

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

Last time I checked, mine was still good.

Still, unless you are in a backwater, go to Costco! Even if you are in a backwater, go to Costco.

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

I'm more often disappointed than pleased when I go into the big Korean supermarkets. Homeover is no different. Way too compartmentalized. I mean- spagetti sauce in at least 3 different areas in the store. Who wants to go through that trouble?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Dev, you are the non-newspaper article equivalent of Real Reality. I guess we all need an identity, but that's setting your sights pretty low.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

The items that are price sensitive to me (products you know the price, know what a good price is, what a good sale price is, etc.) I found have been jacked up at Whatever (there are just so many good slurs... Emart... peEmart.. Lottemart... LousyMart... HomePlus... HomePus...)

The Carrefour store baked bread which use to go for 900 won a loaf (2,000 at Lottemart/Emart) goes for 3,000 won now. The price more than tripled.

The worst is the Carrefour banded products which were about half the price of any brand name... they're of course gone.

With so many competing discount chains in Korea, you would think a price war would be touched off. It would happen in North America. But collusion and price fixing I think are the order of the day in Korea. And Koreans don't care. They're happy because they're buying from Korean companies.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Chlorophyll? More like bore-ophyll!

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

Had the enormous disappointment of visiting the Homever store in Suncheon on the weekend. It was like walking into a 100 yen store in Japan. It was pathetic. Smile

europe2seoul · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul, Korea

I love it when people compare gauge stores in Korea based on how many foreign products they carry.

This is not a multi-cultural/multi-ethnic society. Korean stores cater to Korean customers with products Koreans eat. Take it or leave it.

That being said, I noticed E-Mart in Ilsan where Walmart used to be carries many foreign products such as smoked meats and hams, salami, real peperonni, has specials for 1kg beef = 13,000won, goat yogurth 2x500g bottles for 7900 won, etc. Not bad, not bad at all...

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

You want foreign products?

Then go to Hyundai Department Store. That's where the rich go and there's where you find all the you desire.

europe2seoul · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul, Korea

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I've said it before and I'll say it again........

......When Koreans say they want to be 'global', they mean they want to do business (but only export of course!) with the rest of the world....

.......it does not mean they want their country to be internationally-minded or cosmopoliton.

Oh yeah. Forgot to say. Homever is terrible!