The Best Grocery Store?

Jewel-Osco/Albertson's

0 (0%)

Safeway/Dominick's

2 (11.1%)

Smith's

1 (5.6%)

Kroger

1 (5.6%)

Marsh

0 (0%)

Publix

2 (11.1%)

Whole Foods

3 (16.7%)

Trader Joe's

3 (16.7%)

Other (please explain)

6 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 13

[Changed My Mind]

Demoulas/Market Basket.  Not listed.

[blackie]

Shaw's

[BonerJoe]

Shaw's

JOHN SHAW'S!

[Diogenes The Cynic]

Last night, I became infuriated. The local Pathmark decided a few days ago to change from 24 hour service to 18 hour service, which ment that when I got there, I couldnt solve my hankering for chips & salsa.

Damn you Pathmark!

[davann]

I'm really beginning to like Fresh and Easy here in the California. I believe they are in AZ and NV too.

Yep, in NV too. Haven't tried them yet but have heard nothing but good things. Might give them a shot on Sunday.

BTW, the name is also my nickname for my girl. Ba-da-dum. Makes her giggle at least.

[Bill Brasky]

Shaw's

JOHN SHAW'S!

Don't get caught shoplifting. 

[BonerJoe]

Shaw's

JOHN SHAW'S!

Don't get caught shoplifting. 

You steal donuts, you leave with holes.

[Alex Libman 15]

There's no profit in shooting shoplifters.  You stun them with a nonlethal weapon and then make them pay / work off their restitution.  (Gun polishing joke removed to protect the innocent.)

[Zhwazi]

Publix!

[One two three]

So I found myself doing activism in Bennington, VT over the weekend.  While there, I shopped at ADLI, as it is the closest one to NH.  I found that the prices on most of the items I tend to buy to be around 5% to 25% less than Wal-Mart.  I bought a ton of food for $37.  I'll likely still being eating some of that food, the salty nuts, months from now.  It felt sooooo good to be shopping at ALDI again.  What a great store!

[Lindsey]

Demoulas/Market Basket.  Not listed.

Where do you live?  Just curious.  I've not heard of this store. 

[One two three]

Demoulas/Market Basket.  Not listed.

Where do you live?  Just curious.  I've not heard of this store. 

It is a MA based company with most of it's stores (all?) in MA and NH.  While the prices are lower than most grocery stores, they tend to be higher than Super Wal-Mart and far higher than ALDI, for example.

[Rillion]

So I found myself doing activism in Bennington, VT over the weekend.  While there, I shopped at ADLI, as it is the closest one to NH.  I found that the prices on most of the items I tend to buy to be around 5% to 25% less than Wal-Mart.  I bought a ton of food for $37.  I'll likely still being eating some of that food, the salty nuts, months from now.  It felt sooooo good to be shopping at ALDI again.  What a great store!

I've shopped at ALDI in England and Denmark.  The selection wasn't great, so if you were looking for a specific brand you were pretty much screwed, but the prices were the best to be found and it was a great place to pick up any of the basics. 

[libertylover]

I use to like Aldi but their meat prices are no longer the best in town and they should be.  The meat is prepared at a packaging plant and frozen so that should equal cheaper per pound but it doesn't.  I look for special buys at various markets local to me and purchase in bulk then freeze or canning seasonal great buys.  I am not a victim to customer loyalty. 

If I had to pick one store from your list as being my favorite it would be Whole Foods.  I think my bias is based on the fact that a Libertarian friend of mine works there and loves his job.  He loves the medical savings account solution to health insurance and several other things really impress me about Whole Foods.  Maybe because the store isn't so large and your chances of snagging healthier food stuffs there is better.  I haven't found any other food chain that sales hemp products and my son loves hemp chocolate milk.  Hemp chocolate milk is a better source of omega 3s, protein and calcium than regular chocolate milk also has less sugar. 

I also like to buy from local farmers at their produce stands.   This family is probably unique in that my husband hunts and we do from time to time enjoy wild game.  But if we ever have to become dependent on my ability to grow food we are so screwed.  My little garden only produced 5 tomatoes.  Other plants flowered and I attempted to use cotton swabs to pollinate them due to a lack of bees but no luck.   Maybe next year I can set up a better bed for growing and give my victory garden another shot.

[Laetitia]

So I found myself doing activism in Bennington, VT over the weekend.  While there, I shopped at ADLI, as it is the closest one to NH.  I found that the prices on most of the items I tend to buy to be around 5% to 25% less than Wal-Mart.  I bought a ton of food for $37.  I'll likely still being eating some of that food, the salty nuts, months from now.  It felt sooooo good to be shopping at ALDI again.  What a great store!

I've shopped at ALDI in England and Denmark.  The selection wasn't great, so if you were looking for a specific brand you were pretty much screwed, but the prices were the best to be found and it was a great place to pick up any of the basics. 

That's what I've found at ALDI, too. All purpose flour, sugar, rolled oats, canned milk, etc... their prices can't be beat. Once we get settled in the new house, where I'll have an actual pantry, as opposed to just two cabinets, I'll be stocking up on those items about once every 6 weeks at ALDI. The pasta, rice and oat/whole wheat flour will still be coming from Whole Foods or the bulk bin at the Farmers Market, but Aldi is going to save about $20-25 each month, making it well worth the trip.