What is your favorite, and least favorite Super Market?

[appnut]

My only choices are HEB and WalMart Supercenter.

 

[perc-o-prince]

Price Chopper

is where most of our shopping is done. We grab stuff at Trader Joe's, and, rarely, at the most expensive Stop & Shop. Actually, I've been grabbing a few things now and then at Hannaford's since it's around the corner from the bus lot, and they haven't been that bad on some things.

1- Price Chopper
2- Trader Joe's
3- Hannaford's
4- Stop & Shop

Now, if Price Rite was here................

Chuck

 

[maytagbear]

My favourite store

is a local chain, Acme Fresh Market, which is NOT the same as the Philadelphia area Acme. The staff at the one I go to here in Kent know me by name, and the more experienced staff just make shopping so pleasant. Not so much the new hires, alas.

We also have Giant Eagle here in this area, and I do not like them nearly as well, but I do shop at Giant Eagle once in a while.

I refuse to grocery shop at Wal*Mart. Cannot abide the place. However, there is a new Supercenter about a mile and a half from "my" Acme Fresh Market, and the Acme is struggling.

There is an Aldi a few miles away, and a Save-A-Lot, but they depress the hell out of me. I'd almost rather starve than shop at either one.

The nearest Trader Joe's is about 45 minutes north of me, so I only get there when a friend goes. If one was closer, I'd shop there a lot. Yeah, yeah, I know that Trader Joe's is actually a division of Aldi (yes!), but it's a very different experience.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[peterh770]

Publix, because all the crackheads around here go to Kroger.

 

[appliguy]

When I am at home in VA........

I like Magruders in Vienna (it is has a nice small 50's feel to it and the employees and the prices are great) and Big Lots in Sterling (I get bread there for $1.20 a loaf) and when I am at our summer cottage at Deep Creek Lake MD. it is FoodLand all the way.....Pat

 

[spookiness]

I'm not loyal to any one store but

But as far as chains go I'm not fond of Food Lion.

It's not a super market, but I loath CVS/Pharmacy.

 

[laundromat]

let's see

In Baltimore,my favorite store was the old A&P.I still buy 8'o Clock coffee beans on line.
In Florida,Publix was my favorite place and in Texas,H.E.B.

Here in Hawaii,I have to go to Walmart , Target and Costco. otherwise,I go broke. A gallon of milk at those stores is $3.99. At the other so called supermarkets it costs $8.49!!! The other weird thing here is that Costco is the only store where I can buy chicken breasts.Everybody else has thighs,legs and wings but NO BREASTS!!!????????? plenty of raw meat ready to eat but I'd rather cook it. I've had raw shrimp,raw tuna and sushi but they're not my favorite.

 

[dixieland]

I shop at Schnucks mostly. It is closest to my home and the people are friendlier than Kroger. My problem is that no one grocery store (in Memphis) gives me the complete shopping experience I am looking for. I end up starting at one and then hit 3-4 places to get what I really want.

My job allows me to travel so I get so seek out many different stores across the nation(s). Some of my favorite are:

-Publix
-Harris Teeter
-Schnucks
-Hyvee
-Dominicks (Safeway)
-Fresh
-Dominion
-Loblaws
-Sobeys
-Winn Dixie
-Fresh & Easy (please expand eastward)

Some of my least-favorite:

-Shaws
-Stop n Shop
-Price Chopper
-Hannaford
-Albertson's (just plain crap these days - used to be good)
-Piggly wiggly (needs a makeover)

 

[sudsmaster]

It depends...

I do most of my grocery shopping at Costco.

Otherwise it's usually Pak 'N Save, which is a branch of Safeway. The reason is that the local store is far less crowded than the local Safeway, but carries much of the same items. It's a bigger store with bigger aisles, and often better stocked than the neighborhood Safeway. I guess it was meant to be the bulk version of Safeway.

I used to shop at Lucky's 15 years ago, but that was in a different town where I preferred the local Lucky's over the Safeway that was on the next block.

Costco doesn't have the selection of a local supermarket but he quality is generally higher, especially for fresh meat products. If I want a rib steak, I'll try to get it at Costco, which carries Choice grade, vs. the local supermarkets which carry their own non-standard grades like "Ranchers Reserve" which is lower quality than Choice. Not that I eat steak that often!

Around Thanksgiving I'll hit up the local Pak 'N Save or Safeway for a frozen turkey or three on sale. Still working through the supply stored at the bottom of the chest freezer!

 

[mattl]

If it's Michigan, it's Meijer's

Second Jamiel, Meijer's! Surprisingly they are growing and competing VERY well against the slimy Wal Marts. Guess that tells you where I WONT shop...

I shop at three stores, 90% Meijer's, 7% Kroger's, 2% a small local owned and operated store called Bueches (pronounced a BeeKee's), and 1% another small local chain VG's The last two are doing well competing against all the major's.

 

[petek]

I don't really favor one or the other around here although I tended to avoid A&P until they were changed to Metro stores and got a better selection and better prices.
I go thru the Thursday flyers that come with the newspaper and look for what's on sale that I know will get eaten/used then over the course of the week I pick that stuff up at the various stores when I'm passing by them and I buy quite a few of each. I do go to the Walmart Supercenter if they have what I want at the right price, they're not always the cheapest by a longshot but then they do "price match" and you don't have to show them the competitors ad..They take your word for it usually.
I cross the river occasionally to go to Kroger and Meijer but mostly Kroger for milk and cheese.. We pay a fortune for milk in Ontario (about $4.50 a gallon roughly) but in Michigan it's less than half the price and I can often get a gallon for less than $2. Now though the bridge toll has risen to $6 return so that can offset any savings. Oddly the rest of the Michigan grocery prices are about the same and quite often a little more expensive, even the California and Florida fruits and vegetables can cost more in Michigan than we pay here in Ontario Canada.
You really have to shop around though and know your prices and whether it's worth driving extra miles for not much savings.

 

[spankomatic]

Raley's

Steve,

I go to the Raley's on Freeport Blvd. The photo I posted is vintage photo of that Raley's. It looks much different now.

Jim

 

[kqkenmore]

I really have not liked any grocery store since Fred Montesi in Memphis.I go to Aldi's,Kroger,Schuncks,Wal-Mart Supercenter because they are the only ones that have a good selection of HE powder detergent.

 

[austinado16]

Here in SoCal.....

Vons is where we do 99% of our grocery shopping, and have for 25 years here, and before that, in norCal, Safeway.

I find the Vons (at least here) to be clean, and the employees friendly.

When I rarely go into an Albertson's or Ralph's, I can't help but not like them. The seem cramped, poorly cared for and stocked, and disorganized. In one local Albertson's, they actually have products sitting up on the very tops of the isle shelves....places normally used for displays and such. There's no way you can grab something from up there unless you're over 6' tall...stupid.

I've tried hard to give business to the local "tree hugger/hippy/natural foods/organic store"(my own name calling) and as much as I want us to eat better in terms of how food is grown, fed, raised, harvested, etc. I just can't get past the rediculous prices and that fact that I'm sure some fat cats who probably own Vons and Albertsons, are sitting and laughing at how much they can gouge the crap out of all the tree huggers and hippies who think they're eating better. $6 for a gallon of RBST free milk, as opposed to the same exact milk for $3 at Vons. That's just BS.

I avoid Trader Joes for the same reasons.....they're just taking advantage of everyone who "thinks" they are eating better by shopping this quaint little trader joe's thing.

I avoid Walmart.....almost at all cost. The problem is, they come in and kill off nearly every other similar store and you're almost forced to buy from them. It's very rare that I set foot in ours. Same with Target, and I never go in Kmart. I just can't stand the bottom feeder, turkish bizzar feel of these places. I don't need a hair blow dryer for $9.97 that was made by someone in a 3rd world country who lives in a cardboard box and earns 1 US dollar a month, while the company makes 100million a year selling blow dryers through Walmart.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[norgeway]

Around here...

You find Food Lion's on every corner,their headquarters are in Salisbury which is about 15 miles away,if I could afford it I would buy everything at Whole Foods or Fresh Market,but Lowes and Harris Teeter are overall the best stores around here,Winn Dixie was my familys favorite for years but they are all gone now,Ingles is nice but not in our area,I am friends with the Ingles family,they live in Asheville and are wonderfully nice people,they have connections to my hometown of Lenoir N.C.....but overall in the Piedmont region of NC,Food Lion out numbers all others..

 

[sudsmaster]

Back in the 70's I used to shop at the Co-Op, which was in Berkeley. They took a more left-wing approach to food distribution. I remember their informational material constantly referring to the competition as "LuckSafe", and point out how Co-Op products and services were more responsible, etc. It finally went under some time in the 80's, after I moved away. Now there is a Whole Foods store in the same spot, which seems to do booming business. I sometimes shop there when I need certain things - like raw sunflower seeds, etc. But their prices are usually exorbitant.

 

[westie2]

Here we shop at Harp's Foods an employee owned company that goes head to head with Wal Mart . Harps has 56 stoes so a mid sized chain. They also go by Price Cutter, Food 4 Less and Price Choppr. First choice to last is:

Harps
Aldi
Sav a Lot
Wal Mart

My wife works for Harps at their home office a very good company.

Harps Foods

www.harpsfood.com

 

[iheartmaytag]

With Wichita being such a highly competitive supermarket town we have so many to choose from.

There's Dillon's on West street
Then there's Dillon's on 31st street
I also like the dillons on 13th street
But if I am in that part of town I will go to the Dillon's on 21st street.
I really like the Dillon's on Maize Rd
I haven't ever been to the new Dillon's on 135th West, but i hear it's real nice.

Of course if you don't like Dillon's then you can go to Wal-Mart.

We also have Target Super Stores, but even though their produce is top shelf, so are their prices on everything.

Almost forgot Aldi's too.

So here's the breakdown
Meats and Produce (One of the Dillon's mentioned above)
Milk and some frozen foods Wal-Mart
Canned goods Aldi's

Last resort for groceries due to pricing Target.

 

[polkanut]

We shop at 4 different stores here in the Wausau area:
Aldi's
County Market (owned by SuperValu)
Wal-Mart
Quality Foods (a locally owned IGA)

Quality Foods is the type of store where you can find an item that no one else stocks. Very clean, knowledgeable staff, great produce, nice deli, and an in-store bakery. Quality is only about a mile from Wal-Mart, and is actually thriving because of it being a smaller, more user friendly store.

 

[autowasherfreak]

We usually shop at Hy-Vee, because it is the closest store to us, but lately we have been going to Aldi. We bought $130.00 worth of groceries, and it lasted almost 3 weeks. Sometimes we will go to Fareway or Save-a-Lot. I'm not a huge fan of Wal-Mart.