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Interesting about your local rural North Carolina offering only Food Lion and Lowe's. I think this is common throughout most of the country (rural food deserts) but you brought up Northern California, and that's a notable exception. Where my in laws live in Nevada City, there's a nearby co-op in Grass Valley called Briar Patch. My in-laws are members, and the supermarket posts 80 something small farms within about a 150 mile radius of where the market sources their produce. It became so popular that a second market just opened in Auburn, which I am sure you are also familiar with. My point being that rural northern California is an exception to that local rural food desert rule. I remember when I used to live in St. Louis, and I was once tubbing in a river in the rural Ozarks about 3 hours south. I went into a supermarket in a rural town named Ellington, I think the supermarket was Town & Country, it was many years ago. Anyway, I peered into the meat section and the ground beef was gray colored. The produce looked inedible, in spite of Missouri being a state where in areas a lot of produce is grown. It was a different universe from what was offered in suburban St. Louis.
In some parts of rural North Carolina that I've driven through, there isn't even a Lowe's....only a Food Lion.
I used to like Food Lion in the southeast.. I know they moved north to some extent, but..
Always liked Ralph's in LA (I think they're basically regional).
They are, but they're owned by Kroger.
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But my favorite name/logo for a regional grocery is still Piggly Wiggly (upper South- VA NC TN, etc).
Same here.
I grew up in California, so I didn't see any as a kid.
However, my mother traveled all over the country for pleasure with my grandparents i the early/mid 1950s and that was her favorite name as well.
IIRC, by the time I was a kid (I'm a second half of the boom baby boomer) Piggly Wiggly was already owned by Safeway.
I think I've only seen one of them, and I've only been in one (in a small town in South Carolina in 2020....and it was dirty).
I also like Raleys, but I still go to Grocery Outlet, which I like for the pricing. No Sprouts here, but I did love them when I lived near one. Trader Joes is always a winner.
I was thrilled when Trader Joe's came to Texas (I'm from California and started going to Trader Joe's in the 80s).
I waited in line to get in on the first day the first one was open.
HEB and Central Market are owned by the same company,you should see the difference .
H Mart is a Korean supermarket,they have 3 locations in Houston,also in other states and Canada,they have swimming cat fish,tilapia,lobster,dungenses crabs,King crabs in tanks,they have seafood flown in from Fulton Market every day and their fresh produce dept would definitely knock your socks off
Wow, I'm amazed that I've missed that.
I drive along that part of Westview probably a couple of times a week, and it looks like one of them is on the corner of Blalock and Westview.
I thought Stater Brothers went out of business , but I guess they just pulled out of Orange County.
I can't speak for the rest of OC, but I used to work across the street from the one at Warner & Euclid in Fountain Valley, and it appears that one is still open... (and for some reason, I used to call it Statler Brothers).
I can't speak for the rest of OC, but I used to work across the street from the one at Warner & Euclid in Fountain Valley, and it appears that one is still open... (and for some reason, I used to call it Statler Brothers).
My bad.
I did a search on their site before I posted that. I kept zooming out and the ones I saw were clustered in in Riverside and maybe Los Angeles counties.
I guess I didn't zoom out far enough .
I used to shop at one occasionally. IIRC, it was on Newport Blvd. in Costa Mesa.
The nostalgist in me still loves the IGA stores in the small Midwest towns like my grandparents lived in. There's something irreplaceable about them and quite frankly missing with the big guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdB-DQ432g0
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Same here.
, but I guess they just pulled out of Orange County.
