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Al Rafedain Market

3.0 (6 reviews)

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Gretchen F.

Errrrk. So on a cold, cold, cooooold Saturday, after leaving my blood, Yelp, and tears on the pavement after running my heart out at the Cupid Run 5K (well, okay, fine, I didn't really run my entire heart out, but I did *finish* the race at least, and those who know how lazy I am should be impressed by that alone, haha), I had a serious hankering for hot pot. Alas, we arrived at the shopping center on Old Pickett Road (which houses Hot Spot and the Fairfax Bon Chon) a little bit too early, and the hot pot place hadn't opened yet. To kill a little bit of time, we wandered into Al Rafedain which is just a few doors down. The illustrious Jessica M, who arrived before me, actually said that the door was locked when she first tried to go in, despite the neon blinking "OPEN" sign hanging in the window. I'm not sure if it indeed was locked or if running the 5K had left my friend with abnormally weak arms (hahaha, jkjk Jessica loooove you), but I guess the shop owner saw us milling about outside and decided to let us in from the cold. We walked around the shop for a few minutes, taking in all of the various goodies. A freezer full of pita, various candies, non-alcoholic malt beverages, and other raaaandom things like pillows and Heinz ketchup and Kirkland-brand tomato paste and jars of olives that I feel pretty certain you could buy for much cheaper at a normal grocery store. Anyway, I almost burst into gleeful giggles when I saw an entire spread of Turkish Delight on one shelf, and immediately snagged a box of raspberry flavored gelled goodies for the mere price of $3.99 (it's like $12 to order a box on Amazon.) Unnnnfortunately, there is evidently a reason why it's priced that low. When I broke into the box after lunch, all of the candies were crazy stale and so old that they actually were stuck to the plastic tray inside -- it took a ton of effort to pry just one single piece out, and when I finally freed it I couldn't even bite into it. Sad panda. I would have been inclined to rate this place higher if it weren't for the stale candy and the fact that the cashier shortchanged me. I paid in cash and, while it was only like 10 cents difference and I would probably have said they should just keep the change anyway, she never even offered me my change back! Lame. If you're looking to stock up on any particular halal goods, I'd probably recommend taking the time to head to the Halaco in Falls Church instead.

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2 years ago

I love this place the owner is a very nice person I get my hookah things from him very cool place to visit go there and check it out

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A small little grocery store. Won't have everything but plenty of basics…read more Great for your Amazon returns that's the main reason I'm giving it four stars. Grab your $10 off a $40 purchase when you bring your return. Prices can be expensive so you have to shop the sales and deals. Staff is often shopping for pick up orders so you can ask questions as needed while shopping.

I was in the area and wanted to check out Amazon Fresh mainly out of curiosity. I did the…read morecashierless method and scanned all my items with the tech in the shopping cart. It took some getting used to but once we got the hang of it; it was actually really convenient. You can see all your items on a digital screen on the cart. But than it got weird. We couldn't figure out how to scan a produce item and I put the item in the cart without scanning and it made an alarm sound. A worker came seemingly out of nowhere to help within seconds. Then I realized the many cameras all around the store. Very dystopian. I also noticed that the shelves were empty and not much inventory. The hot bar was laughable. There were more workers than there were customers. I was helped by a worker that explained that I just push the shopping cart in the designated lane and it "checks out" my cart. I was emailed with minutes of the receipt. Awesome tech makes it worth it to check out but as far as buying groceries on the daily; I'll stick with Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.

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