“Where are you, Diana?”
We live very rural, SW Wisconsin. My two choices are Walmart and Piggly Wiggly...and that’s a 20 mile round trip as it is! We have a Farm & Fleet for animal supplies in the same town. I use ‘Chewy’ for house pet supplies.
We get by fine. We have a HUGE garden, Beau hunts and fishes. We raise our own beef and have laying hens. We just bought a whole hog from our neighbor. We’re all pretty self-sufficient out here, between all of our farms.
I have friends that like Woodman’s. Mom likes Pic-n-Save which is a Kroger brand, I think? I will shop Aldi when we travel to a larger town about 45 minutes away to hit Menard’s for building/repair/farm supplies. We have a great butcher in our Cow Town - Population 283 - an old General Store that’s been there since the 1950’s. Great bacon and cheeses. :)
I forgot about Aldi, that should always be part of the mix.
My wife misses having a large garden in northern Illinois. Everything grew there.
Pick-n-Save is a subsidiary of Roundy’s is a subsidiary of Kroger.
I miss Menard’s. Better than Home Depot/Lowe’s for most things, especially home shelving solutions and Rubbermaid products.
We didn’t raise animals when we lived in northern IL, but many people did, and the deer hunting is unsurpassed, and we were often the beneficiaries of the best meat and the freshest goat milk and eggs. Too bad Chicago is attached to Illinois.