There is no usual MMI sign and no red decoration. Here, the entire store is pasted on the outside like green or yellow and the sign "Cellar saver".
Prohibition is in Dubai, but the doors are bursting with customers. We were on Saturday closer to 20:30-21:00.
People, like mad, just take out the whole store. The queue starts on the street. ID and passports are checked at the entrance, they are not allowed in without them. Everyone is shouting and screaming. The buyers are mostly Hindus, because the Bur Dubai area is Indian. The guards force you to leave bags and backpacks at the entrance in the rack, apparently they are afraid that you will steal something from them. Of course, they are not responsible for the things left behind, but nothing was stolen from me. Just some kind of tin is happening by our standards; it resembles New Year's queues in supermarkets on the 31st.
I came in around 11 a.m., there were still 7 people in line. The employee allowed me to go without queuing and asked if I had a passport registered.
He put me in a dead end, I wanted to answer: "No, I typed it around the corner." I don't know why he asked, apparently, when you first buy alcohol, you are registered in the system, perhaps they somehow track how much alcohol you buy later. Honestly, I don't know how it works.
Wonderful store in Dubai 🤣 good assortment, reasonable prices. The most decent mmi on jumeirah. It is necessary to make a card, there is a limit on the amount per month, but it is more than enough. On New Year's Eve, a proseco martini cost 55 tubriks. For our 1400.
the queue on the street starts
inside the store, the queue goes like a snake to both cash registers throughout the hall
It's scary to waste so much time buying alcohol