Grocery Stores in Your Area (better, Florida, Atlanta, Kentucky)

[StuckPA]

It's also interesting how some of the stores will set up shop farther from their corporate offices,for example Shop-Rite is big in a few states here in the 'northeast' while their 'hub' is located in NJ but they don't seem to go beyond those states. Same with Food Lion in NC etc.
Yet places like Price Chopper seem to branch further out,I thought they were based in NY state or Ontario yet they have stores in KC.

[buckhead]

In Atlanta, the near suburbs, and the extended marketing area we have:

1. Kroger
2. Publix
3. Ingle's (mostly in the outer areas, many closer in locations closed1)
4. Walmart Supercenter
3. Super Target
4. Food Depot (local, mostly in Cobb and Spalding Counties)
5. Wayfield Foods (local, mostly in Fulton and DeKalb counties)
6. Whole Foods
7. Harry's Farmer's Market (owned by Whole Foods)
8. Earth Fare (actually over in Athens)
9. Trader Joe's
10. Aldi
11. Sav-A-Lot
12. Fresh Market
13. Piggly Wiggly (operated by at least 3 different groups, including some former Bi-Lo/Bruno's locations and 2 different independent franchise-holders)
14. Food Lion (only a handful, all far from the city proper)
15. Life Grocery (a local natural foods market)
16. DeKalb Farmer's Market
17. Scads of other independent natural'health foods places, Caribbean, Latin, Asian, farmer's, and other markets, from small stores to supermarket-size and format.
18. Costco
19. BJ's Club
20. Sam's Club
21. (Tri County) Quality Foods
22. Happy Herman's (very local deli and grocery)



A few that have bitten the dust over the years:

1. Big Star/Colonial Stores (including Richway Foods)...they were a huge player
2. Big Apple/Food Giant...they were also a widespread chain
3. Cub Foods
4. A & P (including FutureStore)
5. Winn-Dixie (and Save Rite)which at one time were huge here
6. Harris-Teeter (they did a store swap with Kroger)
7. Bruno's and FoodMax (a few did survive but converted to Piggly Wiggly)
8. Albertson's (only one store actually, a bit north of Atlanta, which was an acquisition from Bruno's/Foodmax)
9. Bi-Lo (most closed, the few remaining were changed to Southern Family Foods, and some later to Piggly Wiggly)...the ones not sold or closed remain with the Mauldin, South Carolina-based Bi-Lo
10..Super K-Mart...I think there was only one...in Gainesville
11. American Fare...later rebadged as K-Mart and Cub Foods

[Rita Mordio]

Wow.. I don't even think I could name half the grocery stores in my area..

Kroger
Harris Teeter
Sam's Club/Walmart
Costco
BJ's
Food Lion
Farm Fresh
Bi-Lo (I think it's still there)
Bloom's
Bottom Dollar
Kmart
Target
Trader Joes
The Kosher Place
Fortune
Sav-A-Lot
Ukrop's

There's also quite a large number of smaller independent grocery stores that I don't know the names of......

[andreaspercheron]

In PA we have:

Giant - I usually shop here
Shop-Rite
Genuardis
Wegmans

There are more but these are what you see the most of in my area.

[InLondon]

Kroger is really popular around here, they're everywhere.

[Magnum Mike]

In the Phoenix metro area:

Fry's Food Markets - Favorite
Albertson's - Favorite
Safeway
Food City
Sprouts - Favorite
Trader Joe's - Favorite
Basha's
AJ Fine Foods
Sam's Club
Costco
Super Walmart
Fresh And Easy Produce market - They're new, but I don't think they're doing too well.

[115db]

We have a new store that recently opened up, Winco. Its really a nice place, otherwise, we normally do Stater Bros. We do have an Albertsons and Vons not far from us but none of us like those etores where you have to have one of those 'commie cards' to get a decent price.

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Livewire

We have a new store that recently opened up, Winco. Its really a nice place, otherwise, we normally do Stater Bros. We do have an Albertsons and Vons not far from us but none of us like those stores where you have to have one of those 'commie cards' to get a decent price.

Sometime last year, Albertson's stopped using their "commie cards" to give you discounts. You'll get the discounts without the card.

[StuckPA]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

Sometime last year, Albertson's stopped using their "commie cards" to give you discounts. You'll get the discounts without the card.

Why would they be considered commie cards?

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by StuckPA

Why would they be considered commie cards?

I have no idea, you'd have to ask Livewire..