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I finally got to order from Taw9eel and be able to give them decent review after they started shipping to Egaila. The site, while not best in design, is pretty fast and easy to use as it’s mostly Ajax based. Rarely you will see page refreshing. This makes shopping really a lot lot easier. Also, most products come with thumbnail, even if not best of quality images. For some reason, for Abraaj water cartoon they did not allow me to add more than 4 items! Seemed a bit weird but that’s OK. So I added 4 only and extra few items just for the sake of trying it. As you checkout from their site for the first time, few minutes later a Kuwaiti gentle guy calls to confirm your address for first order only. An indian guy wearing some home dress was at my door. The truck it self is Taw9eel branded but the indian guy was not dressed properly to present a company really. Who cares I said! They were gentle and gave me the items in nice clean bag.

Yeah beside water it was mostly junk . I just wanted to try something, and this thing definitely won’t be vegetables. You have to hand pick those stuff from the store your self eventually, but I am just saying, for large and/or frequent packed items, this service could come in handy. you can see the bag was organized nice and clean. I paid the driver on delivery, wouldn’t suggest Knet as you have the option of checking your order first here, and last time I checked, their certificate was expired!

So now I got my order home. What do I think of the service in general?

Pros:

1. The site is fast and easy to use relatively, even though it does not sub-categorize items properly. This will get difficult once they have too many items, but search is supposed to do the trick
2. Their delivery service is fast, clean and neat as you saw.
3. It would save me trouble of frequent and heavy stuff like Water cartoons and cloth washing materials.

Cons:

1. Price: Comparing it to normal grocery store, and even though they don’t charge separately for shipping, their prices are way too high, sometimes double the price. For example, Nice kitco is for 150 fils compared to 100 fils in grocery. Abraaj water cartoon is 1.045 KD compared to 600 fils approx. in grocery! That’s way too much for just a delivery. %50-%100 extra. Unless you really have excess of money and want to buy the luxury of life to that extent, or in really bad shape when you need certain items and can’t get it your self, there is no reason to pay that much extra difference. For me, I don’t think I coming near it even though the service it self was quite good and I would love to have such a thing at a reasonable price.
2. Variety: I told them about that before and they said they keep adding items regularly to their store, as they don’t pick up items from the grocery it self as it seems. But still, if I want to pay extra to get rid of shopping headache, I have to be able to find all items I need online. And all the brand I need. For example I don’t like Heinz Ketchup or that certain cloth washing brand just doesn’t suit me. If only one item is missing, that means I still have to go to the store, get it and stand in line!
3. Presentation: As I said, their truck, shipping bag and all are Ta9eel branded, while their driver looked like some freelancer. This is not a big problem though, but it’s still a point.
4. Some weird limitations on quantity when I wanted to buy 5 cartoons of water. There wasn’t any proper reason why I can’t. Is it Tarsheed .

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