grocery shopping...?

Question

where do you do your grocery shopping?

Answer 1

walmart, food lion, kroger, dollar general store market, aldi, sav-a-lot. depends on what i need really, if i can just run in, get it and back out again, then i go to the smaller stores, but if it is the major shopping, then mostly walmart. but we drive out of town for our meat, there is the best butcher shop about 20 miles away, if they dont have in the case what you want, they will cut it for you.

Answer 2

Im on foodstamps so foodshopping is 'my life' lol
kroger, 2 local supers jewel and dominicks and 2 local ethnic groceries are places I frequent at least once a week. Plus any sale anywhere. Its amazing how much I save by using every saving technique like coupons, checking per oz prices, and considering every nutritional benefit in my food choices. One thing Ive learned is no one place will save you every time. Also, even the nicest store uses tricks to get you to pay more so you really have to research and play the game. The supers I go to are in nearby suburbs and are argueably the nicest in the chicago area, but though the service is often better it doesnt pay to become a loyal customer. In the end, the best price is usually the best deal.

Answer 3

Grocery Outlet

Answer 4

If you're in the greater Wisconsin area (and I do mean the entire state), it's Woodman's, hands-down. This small chain boasts some of the LARGEST grocery stores in the United States. It's employee-owned (which means they actually pay those checkers and baggers well), and the baggers KNOW HOW TO BAG. They primarily use paper bags (since they actually work better) and know how to pack for efficiency and weight.

The prices can't be beat, either, and you don't need a special card to get them. Phil Woodman once said something like over his dead body would they have a club card...and he meant it. Low prices are for EVERYONE, not just the select few who don't mind the store collecting marketing and demographics information. On soda and cereal prices, for example, I save so much at Woodman's I stock up whenever I'm in Wisconsin and bring groceries back from a visit to my parents. Imagine paying (regularly) $5 a case for soda and 2 for $5 on 24-oz six packs. Imagine paying $2-$3 for cereal...tops. These are the REGULAR prices, I might add. Sales, like for Labor Day Weekend can mean soda as inexpensive as $4 a case or even less sometimes.

Since Woodman's moves such volume, the vendors make sure they have the best prices. If a vendor doesn't give Woodman's the lowest price, it takes its business elsewhere. Once, for example, the Coke man gave Sentry a lower price on soda a few times...Woodman's dropped him down to one pallet and a small shelf and made the prices go up so he wouldn't sell anything...after he learned his lesson, he got his endcaps and prime locations back.

I appreciate how at Woodman's I don't need a sales circular (they don't regularly print them, either) to know I'm getting a good deal. Everything's always at the lowest possible price, and often on top of that I'll find a green sticker for a STILL lower price. One could liken the pricing to Wal-mart except for one major difference: unlike Wal-mart, Woodman's takes CARE of its employees. Also, vendors don't mind keeping their prices low since they can move SO MUCH product. These low prices are prices you can feel GOOD about since they're not on the backs of laborers who your state is subsidizing for health care.

The only downside to Woodman's is that, likely because of the volume it moves, it does not present well. Fruits and vegetables can tend to look tired, and sometimes the meat does not look that appealing. I suspect this is because vendors take advantage of being able to move the stock so fast that they "dump" their "almost expiring" product on Woodman's. This is the one advantage a Super Wal-mart has over Woodman's: its products look more appealing. But overall, soda's soda, and cereal's cereal...and the bulk cheese at Woodman's is phenomenal.

I have lived in California and Michigan and honestly, there is nothing comparable to Woodman's. They have everything you could ever want, and in massive quantities at a low price. They bag your groceries (well) and don't need a club card. What more could you need?

Answer 5

Now - mostly Kroger, but I also go to Wal-mart (cases of soda are cheaper there than at Kroger - usually), Harris Teeter for the unusual stuff (mascarpone cheese, for instance) and sometimes Lowes Foods, but only if their circular shows something on my menu that I'm sure would be cheaper than at Kroger. Same with Food Lion.

BTW, I really prefer Winn Dixie, but they closed the stores here. I'm still not happy with that, or with Kroger, or any other grocery store available here for that matter. Its just not the same.

Answer 6

At an organic market in a co-op made out of an old Ford dealer's building. There's a free range butcher, pantry supplier, sushi monger, fish monger, health food store, coffee bar, and pasty shop.
For staples, I go to Trader Joe's and once in a blue moon we'll stop in at Safeway or Albertson's.

Answer 7

Meijer (much nicer than Wal-Mart Supercenter) or Kroger. I also shop at Trader Joe's or World Market Cost Plus.

Answer 8

I get some things (like paper goods and canned goods) at our local Wal-Mart because its cheaper and because its not a supercenter yet, so no fresh meat or produce. Then for regular groceries I got to Fred Meyers but occasionally will drop in to Safeway for a change of scenery.

Answer 9

Publix, Walmart Supercenter

Answer 10

Market Street

Answer 11

Wal Mart