I am all about convenience and also about how much things cost. While I do not enjoy shopping, I do look forward to our weekend trips to Carrefour which is a bit of an upscale food store - as close as you can get to a Whole Foods in Morocco.
When we arrive, I can find the car wash guy - he often wears a stripped shirt, kind of like a referee. They have a portable cleaning system and come to your car to wash the outside and the mats inside - cost is 40 Durhams (DH) which is equivalent to $4. I often give him 50 and he is very happy.
On the way into the store, we can drop off our dry cleaning for the week. The cleaning is done in 24 hours and shirts and pants cost 20 DH each.
While Christa is getting groceries and asking me to get stuff, I tend to wander over to the fish section where there is a guy who will shuck oysters for you, add some lemon, and then you eat the oyster on the spot. Oysters cost about 6DH or 60 cents each. I typically have four or five.
In the same fish section, there are whole fresh fish on ice. Our favorite is Dorada. We pick one out, then the guys working there cut it up and filet it - taking off the skin and bones and putting it in a packet. A whole fish tends to be about 60 or 70 DH.
One other service I like to take advantage of is picking out a pineapple, bringing it over to the guy who will cut it, take out the core and slice it up and put it in a packet. Tends to be about 25DH or $2.50 and it often is consumed before we get home.
Added a picture below of honey - known as Miel - so much honey to choose from here in Morocco - every possible flavor and for all kinds of remedies - also very inexpensive when compared to honey purchased back home.
It is the little things that are so different than shopping in the States which add some enjoyment to the process.
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