According to a recent price comparison French retail giant Carrefour has emerged as the cheapest among a collection of UAE supermarkets. The rankings, which compared staple food and household items at eight stores, showed Carrefour offered the best value for money, followed closely by its competitor Geant.

The cost of basic foodstuffs has become a hugely sensitive subject in the Arab world in the last year, helping to fuel political protests that toppled rulers of Tunisia and Egypt. In a bid to keep costs down, the UAE government said last May it planned to fix the price tag of about 400 foodstuffs and household products at 70 outlets across the region.

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