http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2012/04/13/12-Worst-Supermarkets-in-America
I think, if this was a more recent survey, ALDI would top the list.
I think Wegmans and Trader Joes are the faves among their own shoppers.
ALDI has its niche, but it’s a low low cost niche. Owned by Trader Joes folks, who have some astounding business secrets and algorithsm that make ALDI and Trader Joes’ work beyond reason.
Wegmens has their own thing, and their following, like Trader Joes, is almost cultish. When a busuiness can do that, like these two and Apple have done, it’s just magic.
“The highest-rated supermarket, Wegmans, received a score of 88.”
Wegmans is one of the few things I miss from the North. It really is that good of a supermarket chain.
OH SORRY….I thought it was 12 BEST……sheesh….multi tasking…and very poorly apparently….
Yeah, it is a little cheaper than their main two competitors in this market (Giant Eagle and Shop'n'Save), but considering the above experience and many more even worse, I'll paty a little extra for safety and convenience, especially now that we're empty nesters.
I'll shop there occasionally, but only for a standard item like coffee or their Christmas Stollen (yum!!!)
I finally have tried Wegman’s, but even though it’s now close it’s only been once a year. I do have many grocery choices here.
I don’t really get it. The store is nice for special counter items, and if you want to “eat out” with the food bar, but for regular groceries, I find them greatly wanting. My store is very warehouse-looking, depressing, and there really is limited choice of various standard products.
I do like that they have the nice garage which is protective in bad weather. If I need to go then I might use it, but it’s so dang cultish popular that you don’t want to go for being so ridiculously crowded. Cars are constantly circling the big garage.
Walmart has the advantage: fair prices for groceries, guns, and ammo all under one roof. Save yourself from spending cost of travel to save a few pennies elsewhere. I don’t buy everything at Wally world, but they didn’t get to be the #1 retailer by doing it all wrong, and best of all, the unions hate them.
We love Trader Joe’s and Wegman’s, especially for gluten free products, but there is a Weis and Sam’s a few minutes from our house, so we do most of our shopping there. There is a Harris Teeter coming to our town next year, so we’ll try them out too. We also have Shoppers and Food Lion, but don’t like them as much.
The local Food Lion is less than a mile from Casa Del Gamecock and I hate shopping there for one reason, the aisles are curved. Can't see from one end down to the other. Makes for awkward shopping.
The Walmart is the next nearest grocery store, about a 10 minute drive. I hate Walmart for all the reasons listed in the article. They are slow, rude and the store is so large that it's hard to find anything.
The wife will often stop at Trader Joe's on her way home from work, and we try to go to Publix whenever we can.
It’s a trap. “Liberals” always want to complain about businesses, and this is just a whiner’s article. In reality the worst of any kind of store is the one that isn’t where you are when you need something - and isn’t paying you to take the stuff you want.There were stores which were worse than any of those on that list - but they couldn’t get customers to pay enough to keep them in business, so they’re gone. But at least they tried - and that’s more than you can honestly say about any liberal politician.Look at ObamaCare - even with our money to waste by the billion, can you honestly say that Obama tried to make a better health insurance market? They had their grand opening - and didn’t even know how to unlock the front door. Now they claim to have that (mostly) fixed, but the way they have things rigged, any pickpocket can steal the credit cards from your wallet when you are at their store. And they don’t even have a working cash register that will take your money and give you a receipt for what you (may or may not have) bought!
I would say that the fact that Obama never had a sit-down with Sibelius proves the point - except that he is so unqualified to address the problems he presumed to solve, that staying completely away from it was probably the least-worst thing he could have done for the process.
My home town, Rochester, NY, is also where Wegmans was founded. There’s one 4 miles away from us, so we do most of our food shopping there. We also have an IGA affiliated, Food Town, 1/4 of a mile from us and they have good meats and seeing they’re close to home, it lends the convenience of picking up odds and ends when we don’t want to go to Wegmans. We also have Tops, but my wife does not care for them and there *is* a peculiar smell in their stores. I’ve heard it comes from not cleaning out the drains for their freezers.
http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/america-8217-worst-supermarkets-163600043.html
12. Stop & Shop
11. Acme
10. Ralph’s
9. Pick ‘n Save
8. Food Lion
7. Weis Markets
6. Tops Markets
5. Jewel-Osco
4. A & P
3. Shaw’s
2. Wal-Mart Supercenter
1. Pathmark
On at least two occasions I have left a cart full of groceries rather than continue to wait on line while a stupid cashier tries to resolve a problem. Meanwhile no one has sense enough to open up other registers and get the lines moving.
Publix on the other hand is always a pleasant experience and carries quality produce and meats. Service is excellent too. Unfortunately their prices tend be higher on everything.
Shopped at Winco here in SW WA for a long time till I came across some spoiled milk and haven’t gone back.
I’m spoiled I live within a mile and one half of
Pick and save/Metro market
Sendicks (local wisconsin chain)
Target with a grocery
Trader Joes
Fresh market
Piggly wiggly
I generally avoid pick and save
We have one grocery store here. It’s hands down the worse store ever. HEB. Instead of following Moo’s heavy handed suggestion that the Thanksgiving table have discussions about o’care, we discussed how awful our HEB store is. Empty shelves, products on sale are pulled or never ordered, doesn’t accept coupons, small inventory, old hard bread, etc.