Locutorio

A Locutorio is the spanish name for "Call Shop". Locutorios are very popular in Barcelona, there are a lot of them, you can find one almost on every street. They offer long distance calls, at very good prices. Many imigrants use them for calling at home. Most of the locutorios are run by imigrants from Pakistan - seems they are very good in doing it. Most of the locutorio shops offer this services too:
- Long distance and local calls
- Internet access - usually for 1 Euro / hour
- Printing
- Photocopy
- Laminate papers (plastify)
- some of the Locutorio shops also offer international money transfer service (most of them work with RIA Envios - http://www.riafinancial.com)

Copisteria
Copisteria is the catalan name for "Copy Shop". This shops offer you black/white and color printing, copying, laminate, print photos and other related services.

Here is a map of Locutorio (Call Shop) and Copisteria (Copy Shop) in Barcelona. Locutorio are marked yellow, Copisteria with purple.

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Here are some web links of the chain Locutorio and Copisteria shops:
http://www.workcenter.es/
http://www.fotoprix.com/
http://www.copystart.com/

Shopping in Barcelona

So you are in Barcelona for a while. You want to know a lot of things: places to visit, where to buy things, etc.
Let's talk about food shops now:
The main food shop chains are: DIA, Spar, LIDL, Mercadona, Bonpreu, Bonarea, Consum, Condis, Opencor, Carrefour Express
The biggest chain is DIA supermarket, owned by Carrefour. There are a lot of DIA shops, almost on every street there is one. The prices are very good, and they have their own products (with DIA logo), sometimes at almost half the price. For example in a DIA shop a pizza is 1.40 € (DIA branded), and 2.50 € / kg for the pizza that is not branded DIA. So their own logo on a product means much cheaper product, and the quality is the same or almost the same with non DIA products.
Opencor is a food shop, owned by El Corte Inglés. There are 18 Opencor shops in Barcelona, and they are open 18 hours daily, from 8 AM in the morning to 2 AM in the night, every day of the year. The prices are a bit higher than the other shops, but opens earlyer and closes later than the regular food shops.
Here is a map of the Opencor Shops:

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Here you can see where you can find a Bazar in Barcelona:

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