Minsk - Post Report Question and Answers
How would you describe the availability and cost of groceries and household supplies relative to your home country?
There is an outdoor market Kamarovka where we sometimes buy fruit and veggies which ends up being cheaper but parking is a little ways from the market itself so we always take our folding cart. We also like to shop at Corona grocery store, which has almost everything you want but some random products are hard to find like canned chickpeas. I suggest that you ship maple syrup and nuts if you like those as nuts are expensive here and hard to find. Kamarovka has a few stores that sell nuts but they seem to be old and stale nuts. There is another grocery store in Expobel mall called Gippo that is only 10 minutes drive from our place but more expensive then Corona. However, the mall also has a small area where you can find people selling fruit and vegetables. It's a little more expensive then in Kamarovka, but much easier to get to and some even deliver if you get their contact. You can buy central Asian nan/bread there and samsa as well. You can also find Uzbek melons at both places in summer. - Oct 2021
Groceries in Minsk are inexpensive. Household supplies are comparable to US prices. - Apr 2019
Groceries can be relatively cheap, but some household supplies can be pretty expensive. As the Belarusian ruble has gone down in value, some groceries have become hard to find, or at least hard to find good quality versions of. If you can speak Russian, you'll have a better chance at the local markets, as opposed to the grocery stores. We've started doing almost all of our shopping up in Vilnius, as it's only about two hours and you can get almost everything you could want up there. We also have access to DPO and pouch, which enables us to ship in the stuff we can't get up there, or which is just expensive (such as peanut butter and baking powder). There's also a Marks and Spencer up in Vilnius, which has some stuff you can't find anywhere else. - Oct 2011
