Grocery Stores in Your Area (laws, cheapest, tastes, best)

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by Tiger500

For quality, variety, and cleanliness, Publix cannot be beat. The staff is also very friendly too.

I agree- whenever I am in Florida at my dad's- I love going to Publix.



Nicolem

[nicolem]

Wow-up here in NH I really miss the great grocery stores in NJ. In New Hampshire we have:

Shaw's- so so
Hannaford- so so
Market Basket-yuk. Everyone up here loves them but they always smell and really turn me off. I must be the only one up here who does not like this store.
Jackson Star-pretty good store I found after we moved recently.
Stop and Shop-the closest thing to the NJ grocery stores that I am used to. We moved and we are now about an hour away from the closest one however.



I really miss Wegman's and Shop Rite. We were in NJ last weekend and we stocked up 4 coolers with all our favorites from Wegman's and Shoprite.

Nicolem

[southerngentleman]

We have Publix, THANK GOD!
Whole food which I love,Do most of my shopping between these two
Bloom Have a neat hand held scanner check out system, horrible produce
Bi-Lo Always seem dirty and the corporate office is in town,can't imagine what the stores are like in other places
Ingles Have big push on Organics,Not the nicest stores,but do have good selection.

[El Rhino]

Hy-Vee. This is a locally based chain that is by far the largest here and I believe in Omaha and Kansas City as well. Pretty decent operation, I must say.

Dahl's. Locally based, seems slightly more upscale in more established neighborhoods than Hy-Vee.

Fareway. Great butcher, but everything else is no-frills. No bakery, specialty foods or anything like that. Great place to hit up before a bbq though.

Save-a-lot. I haven't been in this one, but it seems like an Aldi's or something.

Aldi's. No frills supermarket

Then of course there's SuperTarget and Super Wal-Mart.

[TKramar]

Originally Posted by TKramar

We do 90% of grocery shopping at Sav-A-Lot, where national brands make up about 10% of their stock, if that. The rest are store brands.

The other 10% we do at either Sweetbay or Publix...both within six blocks of home.

There are also Winn Dixie, Albertson's and Super Wal-Mart for shopping. In the whole TOWN of Bradenton, there must be like five or six Publix's, three or four Winn Dixies, and about 3 Super Wal-Marts (there's another on U.P., but I don't consider that part of Bradenton).

[gentlearts]

In my area we have a chain called Buehler's. It's family owned and there are maybe 6 stores. It's great because the prices are good, they have a conveyer system which loads your groceries into your car...no carts allowed in parking lot at all. They are super clean and have fresh flowers in the ladies room. To me, the amenities are important. The produce and meats, and fish are top notch.
We have, for example, a Giant Eagle next door to several of the Buehler's stores and there they greet you with metal detectors, have no rest rooms, no bagboys at all, you must check the dates on everything to avoid buying outdated foods, and in general have an I don't really care about you attitude.

[southerngentleman]

Originally Posted by groove1

Charlotte Metro:

Harris Teeter (based in Matthews, NC just utside Charlotte. The nicest, but usually most expensive. Sales are good though).

Food Lion and Bloom, based in Statesville, but owned by Belhaize, who also own Hannaford's. Store is not very good. Sales are not good, don't double coupons, don't carry enough organics or variety.

Bi-lo: kinda between HT and Food Lion.

Aldi...I love Aldi...but not one real close to me.

Super Target; Super Walmart.

Earth Fare, Asheville, NC based natural foods chain...2nd largest in US next to Whole Foods.

2 Trader Joe's (not my favorite store, sorry fans, even though I know they are the same owners as Aldi.)

Local natural foods store with 3 locations called Home Economist Market...pretty good.

In Charlotte you also Have DEAN and Deluca, I am so envious!!!

[himain]

I've never been to Trader Joes or Dean and Deluca..Sounds like a good exploring afternoon for me

[poconoproud]

Our closest two supermarkets are Mr. Z's, and ShopRite - in Brodheadsville in the Pocono's.

but not too far away, we can go to Giant, Wal Mart, Sam's Club or Aldi's (which I never shop at anymore, since getting worms in my canned potatos, and mold on my spaghetti sauce)

[groove1]

Originally Posted by southerngentleman

In Charlotte you also Have DEAN and Deluca, I am so envious!!!

This is true...as well as Ikea next year, though it's not a grocer.