Posted on 09/24/2024 11:21:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Publix. There is no other competitor.
I like Meijer for most things. They do tend to buy local which is nice.
I don’t know anything about exotic food ingredients like “wheat bread flour” lol; you’ll find me in the personal pizza and tv dinner aisles before passing through the Diet Coke section (true story).
Mostly an NC SC chain.
Stew Leonards is phenomal. I go to the one in Danbury for my meats, fish, cheese, and produce. Very high quality. They make you walk through a maze of aisles before you find what you want so you need to keep your willpower about you.
The Fresh Market stores are great.
THERE YOU ARE! I was afraid I was the only person who ever heard of PIGGLY WIGGLY. I believe it is one of the oldest groceries. The first grocery store I saw was Piggly Wiggly in Southern Tennessee around about 1937 and I was 4 yrs old. Not so long ago our little town here in W.V. opened a Piggle Wiggly just a few blocks from where I live, and I was happy Happy Happy. I thought surely they had gone out of business since 1937, but there it was and I’ve walked down there many times. I feel like it got there just for me, by the Lord. It’s still good enough for me even if it’s too high $
I’m here, Nan! *WAVES* :)
I shop Piggly Wiggly weekly specials and they always have some good discounts in produce and shelf-stable items. I get their ad in the mail each week as an insert to our local ‘Shopper’ newspaper.
Their store brand is good for canned goods and frozen veggies, coffee, flour, sugar, cereal, staples - Food Club - comparable to any of the national brands, IMHO.
Lots of LOCAL fresh veggies and fruits and I’m not sure if yours is the same, but meats are local, too. Wisconsin and Iowa for chicken and pork, at least. (I don’t buy beef - we raise our own.)
As an added bonus, the Manager is the same age as I am so there is always AWESOME 70’s & 80’s ‘Muzak’ playing in the store. ;)
Shop The Pig! :)
Never heard of it!
Must be fake news...
I love Great Value mayonnaise.
Fresh Market has some good stuff, but very limited and very expensive.
Publix is a good general grocery store, but also pricey unless you are really into coupons.
I’ve been in Aldi once, left because they don’t have a lot of stuff I use regularly.
Never been to any of the others.
“Exotic”
LOL. Bread is one tough recipe: flour, water, salt. Exotic stuff.
“H.E.B rules”
Truth! It took 15 years for HEB to finally make it yo North Texas. The Frisco location the one I like had to have door counters the first two weeks it opened to keep with fire code they were one in one out for at least two weeks with an hour long line outside. This is how popular they are. They still are slammed packed any day of the week 11-1 and 5-7 with lines waiting for carts to come back they are all in use poor cart boys running up a sweat. These are super Wal-Mart sized stores too not neighborhood market sized. Their oak smoked BBQ is as good as Hard Eight or any of the local BBQ places at half the cost too. Only Hutchins beats them at nearly three times the price point per lb.
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