Posted on 12/09/2013 7:29:55 AM PST by Daffynition
...All ratings are based on 24,203 responses, and the four categories – service (includes employee courtesy and checkout speed), perishables (food quality), price and cleanliness – were scored from “very satisfied,” “fairly satisfied,” “neutral, “fairly unsatisfied” and “very unsatisfied.” All scores are out of 100. The highest-rated supermarket, Wegmans, received a score of 88. The following are ranked from bad to worst....
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Of these supposedly worst stores, only Wal-Mart has any kind of presence in my area. The last A&P disappeared years ago. The main stores in my area are Fred Meyer, Safeway, QFC, Top Foods(currently struggling and closing some stores), Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and a few independent (I think)stores such as Central Market (I know of only one location). Albertson’s used to be prominent, but all the ones in my area have closed. Fred Meyer and QFC are now owned by Kroger, and I think they’ve dropped a notch since Kroger took over. (One pet peeve - Fred Meyer no longer offers celery by the stalk, but only by the bunch, so if you need just one stalk for soup you have to buy the whole thing.)
Our local Wal-Mart is bright, clean, easy to access, with nice wide aisles and quick, friendly checkers. Prices are good, everything is always in stock, and I’ve never had a problem there. Excellent American company.
The local Aldis, although a fairly new place, is crammed full of rude shoppers, cheap off-brand crap products, and sullen checkout clerks. Plus you have to put a deposit on a cart. No thanks.
There’s a budget grocery chain in my area that targets food stamp rich neighborhoods for its locations.
i shopped: Raley's/Nob Hill, Dragers, Zanotto's, Whole Foods, Safeway, Lucky, Costco for bulk, SaveMart if i were not in need of anything special... typical stores like Safeway and Lucky would be considered gourmet here... btw--i am not complaining, i just miss the shopping experience in California (Silicon Valley, Central Valley and Santa Cruz)... but i am happy to have found Harris Teeter here in NC... and i do like this supermarket named Lowe's in Swansboro, NC--not bad...
bathhouses? i have thought highly of you and your opinions in the past... when you have received criticism for promoting your book and blog/website on FR i have defended you... your questions to me regarding the supermarkets were valid... that final comment was tres ugsome... btw--i do love many of the characteristics that make up SF the city... however, that is not where i have lived nor shopped... there may be bathhouses in the South Bay (Silicon Valley to be more specific)--but i have never seen one...
Happy Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson: The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings :)
Same here, of course, I go back to the Finest Supermarkets and old Grand Unions. LOL
They were the *first* here in Connecticut and replaced all the corner mom & pop stores.
I think there is still an old Grand Union here, out by the UCONN campus/Storrs
“There is a Harris Teeter coming to our town next year, so we’ll try them out too. “
I find them to be the highest priced of the traditional grocery chain stores and only shop them for their weekly specials.
There’s an Aldis close to my work. Scored California pomegranates there last week for 0.60 each.
*Smug* is the word...I swear you can feel the pretentiousness in the air when you walk in the door.
Ha! I went into the grocery last night just to see for myself. The bread isle was cleaned out of everything except the high dollar boutique breads.
But then, how many people like Vietnamese cuisine?
I love shopping at Publix. Staff is always friendly, smiling, willing to really help you. Prices may be a little higher, but the quality supercedes that. The chain is employee owned, non union. Second favorite is The Fresh Market.
Funny. It’s like night follows day....also *everyone* has forgotten how to drive on ice/snow....hence all the pile-ups on the interstates.
I bought some Asparagus from Peru at an Aldis for around $1.50 a bunch and later that day hit the Whole Foods to get something Aldi didn’t carry.
The exact same Asparagus was for sale there at $3.99 a bunch. I told the guy stocking produce about it and he just stared at me like the proverbial deer in the headlights.
“But then, how many people like Vietnamese cuisine?”
Yes, please!
whoa….I was just kidding on the bathhouses…….sorry if that came across snarky.
Obviously, with the wealth and culture in SF, there would be an amazing array of restaurants, boutiques, grocery stores, etc. There is nothing in NC to compare to SF. There is only a slight Silicon Valley analogy with the Research Triangle area…and Raleigh is a very good restaurant town for its size. But it’s not SF in that regard.
So Swansboro? You live on the coast? (We are moving to Beaufort early 2014).
The three closest to me are Wal-Mart, Food Lion, and Farm Fresh (se Virginia chain). Food Lion and Farm Fresh are clean and overall a good shopping experience. But Farm Fresh’s prices are high. I go there for seafood, they have the best beer selection, and a hellacious salad bar. I get my Powerade Zero and sugar free snacks at Wal-Mart, but their meat and produce sucks, and the usual WM complaints.
Been shopping at the Food Lion since the 80’s. Love it, mostly because I know where everything is located and I am the typical male shopper. Get in, get what you came for, get out. And I seem to spend less than at WM. (Not to mention the cute cashier there.)
In Baltimore it’s just “superiority”.
Seriously, there are many nice people, especially the workers. But going to any of them is like going to the Dem Convention.
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