Posted on 09/24/2024 11:21:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I wonder why Ingles isn’t on the list?
Publix has always been my favorite, but I’m too far north past the Mason-Dixon Line to have one nearby. When I’m in the South, I MUST go into one at least once. I really miss having one close by.
There’s one Aldi’s sorta near me, but the last time I went there it was very limited. I never understood the draw.
We do have a Fresh Thyme Market about 25 minutes away, and I do enjoy shopping there. I wish it was bigger.
Nothing else on that list is remotely near me. Trader Joe’s is over an hour’s drive for me, and it’s in a really built up part of the city. Traffic is a nightmare over there, so I very, very rarely go over there. Gas costs too much.
I do enjoy shopping at Meijer from time to time, but I didn’t see that on the list.
This Was Just Voted America’s Top Grocery Store by USA.
Any store in California you can steal anything up to $950.00 no fines no time.
I lived the first 44 years of my life in South Florida. Publix is awesome.
I moved to NM and am stuck with Smith’s (Krogers) and Albertsons. There is a Trader Joe’s on the other side of town. I am not impressed.
My son moved to Texas and, while visiting, we have had the absolute pleasure of shopping at H.E.B. Their super stores are amazing. Lots of prepared meals. Huge selection. Very clean. A wide variety of merch including clothes, grills, and camping gear.
Not a grocery store, but don’t get me started on the wonders of Buc-ee’s.
It’s sort of crazy where I live, in a 3-4 mile radius, we have multiple Publix, multiple Winn-Dixies, Whole Food, Fresh Market, Trader Joe’s, Aldi’s, and Super Walmart.
Guys can now wear meat pants out the door.
Lowe’s Foods and Publix are the two I go to.
Lowe’s is the primary.
Publix carries a few things Lowe’s doesn’t.
My favorite was Dierbergs. There are two dozen of them. All in St. Louis. It’s the kind of store you shop at if you don’t need to care about price tags.
People say the produce at Yoke’s is especially good, in line with the store name, I guess.
Trader Joe’s seem overrated. I’ve only been there a couple times. I like Aldi. Much better now than it was like 10 years ago.
We have no stores on the list but did get a Natural Grocers recently, which I haven’t been to yet.
Hy Vee Chinese is not that bad. It can be hit or miss depending on where you go but if you have a good store around you, it’s pretty decent. A lot of other things are overpriced.
Most just take things out by the cart load and nobody stops them only in California.
S**t hole of the west.
Wish we had Publix, in TX.
Very sad what HEB has bought in to.
Not to mention how they tend/try to replace many of their popular sales items with their own Central Market name version.
There’s a decent Whole Foods near Neptune Beach but like Fresh Market, $$$.
You’re near Jax, right?
I’m in a suburb of a suburb of Indy. Semi rural. Little town of 10,000. We have a Kroger, and a few years ago, a small Walmart was approved. After that it’s Dollar General for some folks who are even more limited. The bigger grocery stores are at least a 15 minute drive for the closest one.
I guess it’s a trade off for me. I hate living in high volume traffic areas. The older I get, the more I hate it.
It does sound like you live in grocery store Heaven though!
Wegmans is the best I’ve been in. In little Hornel NY, there is a wonderful Wegmans. We would take my daughter there to shop when she was in college. I wish there was one near me.
Hah, my brother stocks freezers at HIV to make extra money.
When you have a heart condition, which she did and eventually died from, , you don’t eat anything salty or filled with saturated fat like butter and cheese. She and her husband usually ordered from nearby restaurants though they had a big beautiful kitchen they never used. My daughter, son-in-law and I couldn’t eat the horrible stuff they ordered so went to various stores to find food. Tried Aldi’s and disliked everything there. Hard to remember exactly what, that was four years ago. Fish from the Atlantic can be dangerously infected by organisms in the water, so only buy Alaskan salmon or Canadian west coast salmon. Canned food is loaded with salt unless you carefully buy “low salt” labels. And even those are too salty.
Certain veggies and fruits are sprayed with a lot of poisonous weed killers or fertilized with dangerous chemicals. Potatoes, for example, should be organic and many other fruits and veggies. Environmental Working Group tests fruits and veggies annually and puts out their Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists. ewg.org. I send them a few bucks and receive printouts of their list.
EWG tests water in American cities too. I don’t know about Texas, but here in Spokane, our tap water has 9 dangerous chemicals in it. They don’t even know we have lead in the pipes. I have refillable gallon water jugs, and three stores in our neighborhood have filtered water machines. My cat and I never drink unfiltered water or make coffee with it.
I have handed out that Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen list to several friends. The man in my ‘hood who has adorable grandchildren in town gave it to his daughter.
Maybe I should post it here when I have time.
Anyway, my sister and her husband, both with very high IQ’s, were total idiots about what they ate, didn’t know it affected their health. I’m 88, weigh 112, take one prescription drug, try to walk 30 minutes a day, go to Tai Chi classes three days a week to do bone-strengthening exercises. It pays to be a “health nut”.
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