Where do you shop for Groceries?

Me?

Dollar General (Yes, even for bread sometimes)

Fareway

Hy-Vee

LOL that's it.



Nate

In the Boston area, we have Stop & Shop. Great stores...they have everything. I don't know where else they have them.

:eek: u ask the most straaaaaangest questions. it's almost ****ing scary.

Shaws!! I love it there! (Chris ha). I actually just went on Wed. $189! :woohoo: Yeah, lol I like to brag about my foodshopping. I saved $58 with my coupons and Shaws Rewards Card. I am seriously a Coupon Queen lolol. I like Victory too though. Ugh, but I hate Market Basket/DeMoulas. That place is such a dump.

Well, I go to Bruno's and Food World. You dont have those on there. My fav in GA is Publix and Kroger. I miss them.:(

Save a lot and HEB is the only place for me ;)

that would be Fred Meyers for me (I get EVERYTHING there its sort of like Walmart but DARE I SAY Better)

I go grocery shopping at IGA with my mom and at Safeway with my dad. They live at different ends of town, so they shop at different grocery stores.

I go shopping at Pathmark..we go there so much we know everyone by name!..lolz

Meijer

I've never even heard of half of those choices. So, Stop and Shop, Pathmark, and some other places i dont remember.

Harris Teeter and Lowe's foods

Bell-Air and Safeway usually. I've never heard of not one of those stores anyone has listed...

Originally posted by Janice
In the Boston area, we have Stop & Shop. Great stores...they have everything. I don't know where else they have them.

Yep, Stop and Shop for me too. Once in a while, my mom will go to Big Y. Do you have those in Boston? They're around Springfield...

Yeah we usually shop at Albertson's (I work there and it sucks!) and sometimes Kroger. I miss having a Meijer's though.

I have never heard of any of those place, except for supervalu lol.
anyways I shop at SuperStore!

Hannaford and Victory.

rain man .......... ya gotta get a life!!!!!!! btw shop n save. food land. :happyface

Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Ugh, but I hate Market Basket/DeMoulas. That place is such a dump.

I hate Market Basket too. What makes it worse is that I also work at one. It's a horrible place, both for shopping and working.

I shop at Vons.

It's part of the Safeway chain. I don't think that we have Safeway here anymore since the merger of the two, but many of the "store brand" items on the shelves have the Safeway name on them.

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Originally posted by Babes_Kay


Yep, Stop and Shop for me too. Once in a while, my mom will go to Big Y. Do you have those in Boston? They're around Springfield...
No Big Y in Boston. Of course we have the Big Dig, the most expensive, overbudget construction project in history going on. :eek:

Stop & Shop and Shaws

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Meijer
Yep. Me too. They have everything in there.

Super Target. Sometimes Fareway, but usually just for meat. Our Hy-Vee pisses me off. The damn aisles are too small and there's always some fat person or rude old lady standing right in the middle. And the whole place smells like cheese.

Oh yeah, and I go to Cub too. I love it because you can sack your own groceries. That way some stupid clerk doesn't put the toilet bowl cleaner in with the bread. That's just disgusting!!

I shop at Safeway here in Auburn (aka UltraLamefest), WA. I used to shop exclusively at QFC in Kent before I moved, where I was good buds with everyone there. I miss going there on a regular basis, but I do shop often there still. QFC merged with
Kroger, who owns Fred Meyer, a few years back. One clerk (btw, everyone at QFC calls me Bud Light Man!!:cheers: )told me she used to work at Safeways in the area, and warned me not to eat Chinese food in their deli--"they scratch their butts and don't wash their hands, and the food is tainted...":eek: :barf: Funny, bacause I liked eating there all the time... I wish QFC had a Chinese deli...

We usually shop at Ralph's or Albertsons.

I've never even heard of half of those places you guys mentioned, LOL. (Except Albertsons and Target, and Big Lots)

Usually just Super Wal-Mart or Publix. Sometimes Sams Club.

I go to Millers, it's owned by Hannaford though. We also have Price Chopper and Hannaford, We're supposed to be getting a SuperWalmart by the end of next year though. I miss Grand Union, too bad they went out of business.

I haven't heard of more than half those stores.

The Grocery Stores around here are places like... Vons, Ralphs, Albertsons, Food-4-Less, Smart & Final, Costco, places like that. We also have a Super Wal-Mart and a Super K-Mart that are Grocery Stores also. Plus a few other places I'm not thinking of... I don't count places like Walgreens or Save On as places to go Grocery Shopping though. Oh, we also have a real good Health Food Type Store called Trader Joes...

We usually shop at either Vons, Smart & Final, or Albertsons. Sometimes all three and more in one day... haha

I like Ralphs. Always have. This store goes back a long way- I think 1922.

Sometimes, I shop at Vons, too.

I am not fond of Albertsons. They don't open enough checkstands. Usually only two plus an express line... even during the busy afternoon hours.

None of the above. :lol: I shop at Farmer Jack.

King Kullen ("The experience you won't find it anywhere else")
Shop and Shop

I really haven't been out of state, and there is only ONE Albertson's in Iowa (It's in Des Moines, but never went), no Safeway, only ONE Save-A-Lot (Des Moines Also, and it's in the ghetto part of town), no Publix or Vons or Super Kmart Grocery, we mainly have Iowa based grocery stores here such as Hy-Vee, Fareway, Pac N Save (One in Carroll, IA, the other two are in Wayne and Seward, NE)

We have Super Targets in Iowa surprisingly and I hate them, ESPECIALLY Archer Farms....I went to get bread...cheapest I saw was 2 BUCKS!!!!! At fareway it's only 2 loaves for 89 cents!

I used to work at SuperValu in Jefferson, Iowa for about four months and every day after the first month I was working there was a complete hell. All the employees were a s s holes to me (and to my family) so I haven't been there since March 9, 2002, the day i left SuperValu.

I love Hy-Vee. though it is high priced, there are some good deals. My nearest Hy-Vee has a Pharmacy, Bank, Floral, Video Rental (Their selection really sux since they remodeled), Deli, Bakery, One Hour Photo, 12 checkouts, and automatic doors! The aisles are big and of course, it's next to Kmart :happyface .

But most of all, I love shopping at Fareway most. My local Fareway (Jefferson, Iowa) is the smallest Fareway in Iowa, go figure. It has an awesome meat department, and it's the only Fareway in Iowa to STILL have push button cash registers (the rest have scanners, Jefferson does not.) Fareway doesn't have any fancy things such as a Pharmacy, Floral, 24 hour stores, or bakeries, hell, they are closed on Sundays and Holidays (MON-SAT 8AM-9PM) but it has a good meat department. Everyone hates the meat department at Jim's (Back then I worked at SuperValu by day and Shopped fareway by night!) I was at Fareway on Friday and EVERY checkout was full and we had to wait about 20 minutes to be served (there's only four checkouts, and people do shop there a lot rather than SuperValu), and you should of seen Checkout 2, it was so busy people were backed up into aisle 10! But for the past two years they have been talking about getting a new store but I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't know whether I want them to get a new store or not!

More Later when my show is over...................


Nate


My Local Hy-Vee below:

Originally posted by RainMan
and there is only ONE Albertson's in Iowa (It's in Des Moines, but never went)

They all closed, didn't they?

only ONE Save-A-Lot (Des Moines Also, and it's in the ghetto part of town)

Missed that one. But then I stay out of the ghettos.

We have Super Targets in Iowa surprisingly and I hate them, ESPECIALLY Archer Farms....I went to get bread...cheapest I saw was 2 BUCKS!!!!! At fareway it's only 2 loaves for 89 cents!


They have cheaper bread than that.

:eek: No Ralphs????

Yeah, I shop at Ralphs.

Piggly Wiggly Anyone else go there

My family use to shop at Lucky's before they married Albertsons and became one store. Now we shop at Foods Co and Vons.

Originally posted by dawsongirl

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Originally posted by RainMan
and there is only ONE Albertson's in Iowa (It's in Des Moines, but never went)
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They all closed, didn't they?

I understand that they were sisters with Osco Drug and closed with them. The on that is on Army Post Road should be abandoned still unless someone bought it.

Originally posted by RainMan
I understand that they were sisters with Osco Drug and closed with them. The on that is on Army Post Road should be abandoned still unless someone bought it.

It's probably still empty. The one on 86th still is I think.

Originally posted by Lucylover22
Piggly Wiggly Anyone else go there
No, but the name is awfully funny. :lol:

Originally posted by dawsongirl
Oh yeah, and I go to Cub too. I love it because you can sack your own groceries.

:( It used to be that at both Cubs by me, but now people do it for you...*sniff*

Well, we go wherever there's a sale, which is between Jewel, Cub, Dominicks and occasionally Eagle. Sometimes we go to Meijer and Super Walmart

I remember playing Operation a few times when I was a kid. What I always wondered was--why wasn't the patient on the board anatomically correct??:confused:


:lol:

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
I remember playing Operation a few times when I was a kid. What I always wondered was--why wasn't the patient on the board anatomically correct??:confused:


:lol:

:lol: Cuz if it was kids would be messed up at an earlier age...

I'm starting to hate King Kullen because Amanda and Roy met when they were both working there.
:barf:

Albertsons, Ralphs, and FoodMax


Oh Yeah and The Green Frog

Originally posted by RainMan


I understand that they were sisters with Osco Drug and closed with them. The on that is on Army Post Road should be abandoned still unless someone bought it.

I've heard of Osco Drug, I don't think we have any though. We do have Rite Aid, CVS and Eckerd.

Big Value

Originally posted by JDS84
Big Value

I hated Big Value they used to be in Iowa:o

Petsmart.:liplick:

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
Petsmart.:liplick:


LMFAO
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Since you shop at Petsmart, Does your dog shop at Safeway or something :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



Nate

Walmart. we dont have 90% of those stores

We usually buy our groceries at Wal-Mart, because they're usually cheaper than my local grocery stores. We don't have over half of the stores that are listed in the poll.

I don't think I posted here before...We shop at Foodland or Wal-Mart. i hate both stores! I'd like to shop at Food Lion, but we never get to. I tried to post a pic of Foodland (where I also work) but it wouldn't post.

Clemens
Genuardis
Wawa


anyone else have those where they live?

Originally posted by Titania
Clemens
Genuardis
Wawa


anyone else have those where they live?

never heard of them....lol

Wow! My grocery store isn't listed. Anyway, I shop at Pathmark for my groceries. We have one right next to Wal*Mart. :D

a lot of those choices I've never even heard of...I mostly shop at BiLo and Food Lion

When I was at Delaware State University, I either shopped at Acme or Wal-Mart, but when I came back to Virginia, it's either Wal-Mart or Winn-Dixie.


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We do our shopping at Ralphs....I haven't even heard of like 3/4s of the stores listed, lol.

I never heard of most of those stores, either. We mostly shop at Sentry, Rainbow, Jewel, Pick 'N Save, or Piggly Wiggly if we're up north. Those are all food stores in SE Wisconsin!

Wal-Mart

SuperValu, I think...:lol:

I shop at Albertson's, Safeway, and Fred Meyers. Mainly Albertson's because I worked there for 3 and a half years.(I don't work there anymore) But I love the people that work there. The friendliest.

I live in Montreal, Canada, so I shop at Mourelatos, (they have a website, check it out!) www.mourelatos.com (I think that's the correct url), IGA and Metro. My favorites are Mourelatos and IGA.:D

who buys groceries at walgreens? :lol:

my mom mostly goes to Walmart.

Originally posted by YearbookLoser
who buys groceries at walgreens? :lol:
Nate

My store isn't on there, but we usualy by our groceries at SunMart foods, we have two of them here and thats the only grocery stores we have in town.

Publix is the most widespread here. I had no idea so many people were buying food at Walmart.

i remember sitting in the cart thing at safeway where you put your baby. and crawling around the floor looking for my mom b4 i could walk. safeway rocks my socks.

Originally posted by Snoopy
I hate Market Basket too. What makes it worse is that I also work at one. It's a horrible place, both for shopping and working. Ya, MB has a really bad reputation for how they treat its workers. I just dont like the store. The aisles are so small and the ones around here look like a rummage sale.

Originally posted by Mr. Shy Guy
Hannaford I still call it Shop & Save.:p Why did they change the name in the first place?

Ive been to Super Stop & Shop too @ the Loop. It was my very first time doing the foodshopping by myself. I was in there for 2.5 hrs.

Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
I still call it Shop & Save.:p Why did they change the name in the first place?

Ive been to Super Stop & Shop too @ the Loop. It was my very first time doing the foodshopping by myself. I was in there for 2.5 hrs.

:lol: Crystal, maybe you and Nate have this supermarket connection. What are your thoughts on Kmart?

Originally posted by YearbookLoser
:lol: Crystal, maybe you and Nate have this supermarket connection. What are your thoughts on Kmart?
:eek: :lol: KMART is nice, but only the one in Londonderry because it started off as a BIG Kmart. All the other ones started off as the regular size so when they upgraded it just made it look... sloppy. All the things were new except for the floor and stuff- just didnt look right. I prefer Target.:D

I picked Aldis but Kmart and Dollar General are good also.....

If I was in my hometown of Memphis, basically at Kroger and Walmart. Plus there is another market with two locations that sells about 70 percent Hispanic and 30 percent East Asian/Chinese items and foods. Has an excellent meat and fish counter also. That place rules, and most of the staff are immigrants from Latin America and East Asia. The city and area are becoming much more "diversified" so there are more choices and more foreign markets.

I read an article about the favorite supermarkets in all fifty states and it was interesting how geographic it was. There really isnt a national chain of one supermarket company. Publix rules Florida, Kroger has much of the Southeast (which wasnt one of the choices above), Hy-Vee in the Midwest and Albertson's in the West. There are many local chains, someone mentioned HEB in Texas. When I lived in Las Vegas, there was Ralph's, Vons and Lucky's.

However, the supermarket companies are expanding and encroaching on new territories in areas with established markets, probably with differing results. I do know back in the 1990's, Albertson's tried to push their way South, at least in Tennessee and Mississippi. Albertson's bought a local chain in Memphis, ran it awhile and then sold it and left. The Mississippi stores, the same thing. I think people dont want to change their habits of stores they shop in, plus I think in a supermarket one usually goes to, there is a familiarity with that store, and even the people who work there. "I have shopped in this market for twenty years, why would I want to go to another store?"

I have read that Kroger has bought a lot of regional stores and just kept the name and everything else without much changes except when needed. Goes back again that the consumer in the supermarkets like familiarity and not too much change.

Funny that the list doesnt have Kroger but the last store listed is Walgreens. Walgreens isnt a supermarket. It is basically a pharmacy and a convenience store. I love Walgreens. I joke "where else can one get Valium, beer, potato chips and condoms under one roof?"

I too found it peculiar that the list did not include Kroger.

Having moved around the country, there are quite a few names that I shopped when living in their regions.
When I grew up there were 2 locally owned chains that had about a dozen stores each, who dominated the market Plus Kroger (that was considered "dirty" or second rate) and A&P....the gold standard for marketing that pioneered many techniques that Walmart would eventually ride into the stratosphere.

Over time, Kroger managed to up their game, and became a dependable constant that I could rely upon ...in numerous states.

Now, what I find is that each chain has it's own loss leaders...bargains designed to get you in the door, so they can zing you on other items. SO, it pays to keep and encyclopedic register in mind what each store sells certain things for. And shop for the best deals.

I live very near a Kroger, so it's convenient for me to bop on over there just to cherry pick the few items they seem to undercut the market on.

Then, two "Big Box" chains, Walmart and Meijer I depend upon for the bulk of my needs. I'm not very big on store brands, I prefer the national banner brands.

And, then we have a few locally owned meat markets where I go to get better quality cuts of meat

1. Target
2. Publix
3. Wal-Mart
4. Kroger

I havent ever been to a Kroger