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01-23-2008, 08:20 PM
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What is your favorite grocery store?
I was wondering what your favorite grocery store in South Dakota or wherever. Mine is Hy-Vee, due to it being moderately priced and most of its stores are clean and friendly.
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01-23-2008, 08:29 PM
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Livin' The Dream...
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I'm usually getting groceries at Wal-Mart...but I will not buy any meat from them...I go to the local Sunshine Foods for meat. Occasionally I'll go to Hy-Vee, but Wal-Mart is close to my work, and Sunshine is close to my apartment!
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01-23-2008, 08:42 PM
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Safeway. We have a couple in Rapid City and they give Club Members a 3 cent discount on Safeway Gasoline. If you spend over $50 they give you 10 cents off!
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01-23-2008, 08:53 PM
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If I lived out in western South Dakota, I would pick Safeway. I am loyal to Hy-Vee in Sioux Falls and may stop by Sunshine and Wal-Mart occasionally to pick up a few items. Fiesta Foods in Lennox has good meat, so I buy meat and a few convenience items there.
Wal-Mart has some items I like and are low on price, but I do most of my shopping at Hy-Vee since it is handier to me. Three of the five Hy-Vees have gas stations and a person can save 3-12 cents a gallon if he or she buys something at the gas station or brings in the grocery receipt.
Of the super stores, I like SuperTarget. They are clean and reasonably priced. I have been to them in Des Moines, Omaha, and Rochester, MN. There are plans for one to come into Sioux Falls in the next year or so on the eastern end of the city in one of the two outdoor shopping centers in the works.
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01-23-2008, 09:04 PM
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Piggley Wiggley. No doubt about it.
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01-23-2008, 09:21 PM
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Livin' The Dream...
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kinda odd that they don't have Safeways in Sioux Falls... and I like Hy-Vee a lot too...I bought groceries there a few weeks ago...
Sunshine is convenient for me, but I find it to be kinda ghetto...One time I was being checked out, and right in the middle of bagging my groceries, the bagger says "I'm going to break", and the cashier flips out... Hy-Vee seems more professional, if that makes sense
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01-23-2008, 09:26 PM
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County Fair Foods in Mitchell, Watertown, Dell Rapids, and Marshall, MN. Locally owned by the Clarke family. The profits stay in South Dakota!
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01-23-2008, 10:03 PM
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I try to do as much shopping at our local privately owned small town "Affiliated" grocery stores as possible. If we want small towns to thrive we have to support them. However I do admit that I make Wal-Mart trips for laundry, cleaning and paper products. For meat you can't beat some of the small town butcher shops for beef and pork. The best chicken and turkey can be bought from the Hutterite colonies.
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01-23-2008, 11:33 PM
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rotaredoM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dpf
I try to do as much shopping at our local privately owned small town "Affiliated" grocery stores as possible. If we want small towns to thrive we have to support them. However I do admit that I make Wal-Mart trips for laundry, cleaning and paper products. For meat you can't beat some of the small town butcher shops for beef and pork. The best chicken and turkey can be bought from the Hutterite colonies.
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I used to. Then thought about it. The local Piggly Wiggly contributes just as much to the local acconomy. The people have jobs, they get paid, their wages go into the local acconomy. Taxes from the store go into the local acconomy. Even Wally World. Course, the main money goes into the store and corp headquarters. haha |
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01-24-2008, 01:17 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by windtimber
County Fair Foods in Mitchell, Watertown, Dell Rapids, and Marshall, MN. Locally owned by the Clarke family. The profits stay in South Dakota!
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Ditto!! We shop at the same place. 
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