The Name of the Grocer Near You

It was interesting to see the response about Piggly Wiggly. I live in Southern California where the stores are named Ralphs, Vons, Albertons. The upscale markets are Bristol Farms, Gelsons and Whole Foods. There's also Trader Joes (which is all over it seems).

We have some low cost low end stores too such as the Ranch Market, 99 Ranch and ValuMart. The less expensive stores tend to cater to an ethnic market. Then there are also some people who shop at Costco and LOOK like they live and eat industrial size portions.

 

Our local store is Dick's market. If I go into the city, there is a bunch of stores, including: Albertsons, Hy-vee, Bakers. When I go to the health food places we have Wild Oats, and they just opened a Whole foods, but I haven't been there yet

 

here we've got albertsons, safeway, king sooper. whole foods, too. i think that's pretty common. i really liked mother's market in SoCal.

 

yep, we've got a wild oats here, too.

 

Here we've got Winn Dixie, Food Tiger, Brunos, Save Alot, err... Probably others too.. In Texas We had mostly Albertsons and Randall's (which eventually bought all the Albertsons) and err.. Yeah. HEB in Texas too. that's all I can think of right now, I don't pay much attention to that.

 

HEB, Randalls, here in Texax... and whole foods... also central market..

in Washington we had Safeway, QFC, Albertsons

 

digros, albert heijn, sligro, c1000, spar

 

Publix, Albertsons, Winn-Dixie, and Whole Foods..

In DC we had Giant, Safeway, Food Lion, Whole Foods, and Trader Joes.

I am probably forgetting some, but those are the main ones.

 

we've got Kroger, which is our version of Albertsons. And also Marsh. In fact Kroger cards and Albertsons cards will work at either store. We've got safeway..... which is slowly but surely going to be out of business. Walmart's taking over big time here. Seems like the regular walmarts are almost all gone and now they're all "Supercenters" which have groceries and obviously the other normal walmart bullshit.

 

tops, hanniford, price chopper, walmart just expanded to include produce etc...

 

man, you guys have weird grocery stores

the nearest one is Clarence Avenue Grocery, we also have Safeway, Sobey's, Superstore, Extra Foods (smaller version of superstore)... we used to have IGA but sobey's took over all their locations

 

We still have IGA stores here, but only out in the country. You'll never se one in the city.

 

Kroger, Safeway, Wal-Mart. Nearest health food store is Beans and Grains and Things. This is almost 50 miles away. We had some mom and pop type stores but the big box stores drove them under. So now, we just have to take what is offered. Before if you liked a product the couple that ran the grocery in Greenbrier would get and keep it for you. However, nobody can compete with bulk buying and slave labor.

 

WTF are any of you talking about? feel like i'm on a different planet.

'round here we got ACME, ShopRite, BJ's, Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid, Clemens, Genuardis.

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earth to HHF, earth to HHF I haven't seen an ACME store in ages.

 

sucks to be you! where else can you still find 1cent bubble gum!

 

IGA, but that's a hell of a drive to save money on gum

 

i'm from iceland.. everything sounds weird here

 

here we have HyVee, Dillons, Food4Less, Aldy's, Checkers

 

IGA, applemarket, and thriftway where I used to live (yes, its small town grocery store