Posted on 02/17/2007 1:06:21 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
I don't like their prices at all, but I can always get exactly what I want at Publix....and I know where they keep it. The last couple years they've had an in-house sushi chef in the meat dept. with fresh goodies.
They also have an outstanding produce dept.....and I think I just talked myself into heading over there later this afternoon to get the ingredients for a major salad.
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In Erie, PA there are 2 Wegman's stores. I sell my farm produce to them and I can tell you they are fabulous to work with. I have tried to sell to our local Wally World, they won't buy. They have everything shipped in from God know where. I'll stay with Wegman's and cater to them!
I have a 37-year old Amazon parrot who prefers to post her "comments" on a liberal newspaper such as that.
(I would never put a Wall Street Journal, New York Post, or Washington Times in her cage out of respect for our few remaining conservative publications)
There were also more manufacturing plants making a greater variety of products in the US. I also remember the "Made in America" signs above merchandise at Wal-Mart.
BUMP
You are fortunate. Here in Panama City, Florida fresh seafood is caught and brought in every day but you will not find it in ANY supermarket in the area. Instead of local oysters, they have oysters brought in from Louisiana and even Washington state.
I mention Washington state because I have a friend there who tells me that their best apples are shipped out of state and are not easily available locally. Same thing is true of our local red snapper catch...it's on ice and on its way to larger markets before the fish stop flipping.
Good point. One of the local WalMarts has a greeter in a wheelchair at the garden center when they don't have the outdoor cash registers manned. He looks like he would otherwise have a career as a panhandler.
A local food store I shop at has the policy of meeting competitor's prices if you show the coupon. I had the unfortunate bad luck to be behind a lady who had a fistful of coupons. The clerk dutifully processed each coupon, and then the lines got longer at all the rest of the stations because our line wasn't moving. The manager didn't get off his sorry butt quick enough to open up another register so soon there were about 30 pissed off customers.
untill 2004 we han ONE real grocery store in the whole county so people had to drive 20-30 miles to shop for anything. in 2004 we got a SuperWally and if they only have 1000(a very modest number)customers a day, 365 days a year, that translates into going on 1,000,000 gals of gas saved a year let alone any number of accidents avoided.
Except in the Walmart parking lot, where SUVs roam free like herds of buffalo. God help you if you own a car.
Their policies are pretty good. But I tried to get a bottle of Tabasco Chipotle Sauce at Wal-Mart last night, and they didn't have it. My neighborhood grocery store does.
My first thought was the Griswold vacation spot. My next thought was the Delta Force training complex. I wish people would use proper names instead of cutesy nicknames, especially if the cutesy nickname is borrowed from something else.
After reading that, I have an urge to go shopping at Walmart.
I haven't been there for over a month, and my project/wish list has been growing. They have some 100w solar panels on sale too...
Bull. They don't have near the amount of cheap chineese stuff that Costco does, and many other stores.
Heck, any more, Cabela's=Chinaworld too.
We have a fairly small grocery store not far the house and they are known for their meat. Word seems to have gotten out about it because they are always swamped with customers in the meat dept.
The bonus effect for me is that the high turn-over rate for their meat assures that it's fresh.
I've had the horrible experience of buying ground beef at a Winn Dixie supermarket and it looked all nice and red on the outside but when I went to use it, it was brown on the inside and had a sour smell to it.
Ever since, I buy just about all of my meat products from the little store with people standing in line to buy them. It's always worth the wait.
Our Wal-Mart used to prepare their meat products in-store, but now everything comes pre-packaged. My understanding is that some of the pre-packaged meats are using carbon monoxide as a preservative. I'll probably get most of my meat at Kroger and the neighborhood store now.
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