The "comforts of home" thread invites Expats to tell how they deal with and-or overcome the difficulties in finding products and services in Ecuador that were a regular part of their former lives.
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Sometimes it just pays off to keep checking back at some of the higher-end stores.
This weekend at Megamaxi in Quito, I did the usual checking for my favorite body cream, Nivea "Soft," and favorite cereal, Kellogg's "Musli."
Suprisingly, both were in stock.
The cream had been off Quito store shelves for a full year. In previous years, it had been widely available at pharmacies and supermarkets.
The cereal has been off and on in recent months after being off the shelves for the first six or seven months of 2014.
A manager told me last May that high EC tariffs were stopping imports of the Musli but that it would be back.
And today there they were -- the cherry and apple varieties -- so I stocked up. After all, they could disappear for a while at any time.
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