In order to pull off a successful trip to the grocery store, experts recommend bringing along a detailed list, reusable shopping bags, and your pet lobster for testing tomato ripeness. Take to the aisles with today's Groupon: for $7, you get $15 worth of artisan groceries at Aubergine Specialty Foods.

Aubergine rouses palates with an eclectic potpourri of local and international sweets and savouries. Customers can satisfy cosmopolitan taste buds with imported delicacies such as South African farmer-style sausages ($17 for a two-pack) or Vij's 12 assorted frozen curries ($13.99). A selection of house-roasted organic and fair-trade coffees ($7.99/half lb.) brim with rich flavours and ambrosial aromas enriched by a slow grinding process in an antique Elgin grinder. Containers of Sabra hummus ($5.49) stand ready to enliven any party tray, and truffle-oiled grocery-aisle ziplines make for quicker shopping. Epicureans can slather offerings from the store's wide selection of meats with 15 varieties of Stonewall Kitchen barbecue marinades ($8.99). The gourmet grocery also purveys island Ocean Wise seafood as well as kosher, gluten-free, and Klingon staples.