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I have traveled to 37 states in the U.S. and had the opportunity and experience to visit and purchase food from numerous grocery store chains across the country. Which grocery store chain do you think is the BEST and which one do you think is the WORST?
I have shopped at the following stores throughout my life:
Stop & Shop
Big Y
Price Chopper
Publix
Kroger
Safeway
Albertsons
Stater Bros
Whole Foods
Trader Joes
Shaw's
Wegmans
..and many more.
Personally, my favorite of all is Wegmans, which is mainly in upstate NY, with other locations in NJ, PA, VA, MD and MA. The selection of quality, healthy prepared foods is excellent, which is important to me. Second would be Whole Foods, for me. I think the worst of all is Price Chopper, which has a poor selection and isn't even a good value. Their prepared foods are also lacking bigtime, too.
Also, I think Trader Joe's is decent, but very overrated and small.
I am NOT including Whole Foods in the poll because it's too much of a broad, national chain. I want the poll to be focused on regional, localized chains.
The correct answer is HEB. Prices are low, service is good, staff is helpful, they have two different store-brand labels of very good quality, they mark down old produce every day. They are not in Houston or Dallas, and people in those cities who have ever shopped at HEB are green with envy. If I had to move away from Texas, the thing I'd miss the most is HEB.
How could anyone possibly know? Nobody has actually shopped at all of these places (and next will come the guy who has actually shopped at all of them and knows the answer to the poll!).
The correct answer is HEB. Prices are low, service is good, staff is helpful, they have two different store-brand labels of very good quality, they mark down old produce every day. They are not in Houston or Dallas, and people in those cities who have ever shopped at HEB are green with envy. If I had to move away from Texas, the thing I'd miss the most is HEB.
Actually H-E-B does have stores in Houston, and they have stores in Dallas as well under their Central Market banner.
True dat - along with Brookshires and it's "Central Market" store called "Fresh."
Great regional chains - both of them. I have heard all my life that HEB and Brookshires have a "Gentlemans Agreement" when it comes to some sort of invisible boundary somewhere between central Texas and East Texas.
Maybe it's the Floridian in me, but I have to go with Publix. I have lived all around except the West coast (which I'm moving to soon) and nothing has came close (in my opinion) to Publix. Their expensive, but everything there is pure quality.
Trader Joe's is not a regional chain; it's as national as WF. I find Kroger to be the most well-rounded of the chains; Safeway is pretty generic, Giant Eagle has a good Latin American foods section but not much else, and Meijer has a great selection otherwise, but not much in the way of natural foods or organic produce.
There's not many chains that can really compete with Publix.
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