New international supermarket opens in Crawley town centre
A new international supermarket and meat shop has opened in Crawley town centre, with its manager hoping shoppers will find food from their home countries on its shelves.
Pamir Grocery & Meat Store opened on Wednesday (November 11) at 2 The Boulevard.
Manager Ishaq Karimi said the idea came from looking at what was already available in Crawley. He said some shops specialise in food from a particular country and he wanted to open a supermarket that catered for several communities in one place.
“If anyone comes in, they should be able to somehow find something from their own country in that shop,” he said.
"That's the whole aim of our business, to make sure we got things for everyone here.”
Karimi said Crawley’s large Mauritian community was among those he had in mind when deciding what to stock. He also wants the shop to carry familiar foods for people from Afghanistan – where he was born.
Karimi said the shop also aims to stock Turkish, Pakistani and Indian foods, as well as products for customers from Romania and Poland. He said he wanted the range to include products for English customers, too.
Karimi said the business also has a branch in Brighton.
The shop is offering 15 per cent off shopping until November 17 as part of its opening promotion. Karimi said more people than he expected came in and used the discount at the opening.
“The feedback has been amazing from our customers,” he said.
“The opening, the amount of people that came in and used our 15 per cent discount was incredible. It beat the expectation.”
Pamir Grocery & Meat Store is open daily from 8am to 10pm.