Best Grocery Chain

[Jordanog]

Yes, I know this is a lame topic but my friends and I all work and different grocery stores and have different opinions over which is the best. I work at Kroger which is the obvious best in the country. Tell me which grocery chain you think is the best. I wanna show my friends this to settle the dispute once and for all.

[Tool-Of-The-System]

At 6/29/03 12:39 AM, jordanog wrote: Yes, I know this is a lame topic but my friends and I all work and different grocery stores and have different opinions over which is the best. I work at Kroger which is the obvious best in the country. Tell me which grocery chain you think is the best. I wanna show my friends this to settle the dispute once and for all.

You're right. It is a lame topic... why the hell would it matter which Grocery store is the best? It's not like the majority's opinion matters in this case... so just tell you're friends to shut up about it, because it's pretty much stupid to argue over something like this.

[aeQea]

just about any of them that are open 24-7. cubfoods is a popular 24-7 chain around these parts.

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[Mopsicle]

Are we really that bored?

[House-Of-Leaves]

At 6/29/03 01:43 AM, aeQea wrote: just about any of them that are open 24-7. cubfoods is a popular 24-7 chain around these parts.

one.

Actually. I was going to mention Cub Foods. But around here, it's not called that anymore. It's WinCo. It USED to be Cub.

But see...ITS SO CHEAP! Sure you have to bag your own shit. But if I save a hundred bucks, SO BE IT.

[wdfcverfgtghm]

I like publix, just because it's the best locally. They're pretty upscale, clean, and stocked. The employees are mostly kind and helpful, and the prices are reasonable.

Apples is my favorite from nostalgia. I used to live in West Virginia, where apples was the best around. I remeber walking there. In the fall every tuesday and thursday, my mother an I would walk there to grocery shop, and on the way we would pick up autumn leaves. When we got there she would let me pick out a treat. Sometimes I'd get a soda, or some type of candy, but my favorite was perrier (Or any other clean water with gas as long as it wasn't seltzer) or a bit of cuban bread. I think I lived there from when I was 2 to 8 but I don't remeber when we walked there.

I also like Sams Club for buying bulk, but they have a lot of trashy, bad buys, and unnessicary items.

[Jordanog]

Okay so 1 Publix, 2 Cubfood (never heard of it in my life), and several "stop wasting my time, you ass."s.

[DrxFeelgood]

At 6/29/03 12:39 AM, jordanog wrote: Yes, I know this is a lame topic but my friends and I all work and different grocery stores and have different opinions over which is the best. I work at Kroger which is the obvious best in the country. Tell me which grocery chain you think is the best. I wanna show my friends this to settle the dispute once and for all.

Farmer Jack is the best, though Kroger's is good too. Are you from MI too? I tried checking your profile, but it said internal error.

[Jordanog]

At 6/29/03 02:20 AM, 70TA wrote: Farmer Jack is the best, though Kroger's is good too. Are you from MI too? I tried checking your profile, but it said internal error.

Nah, I'm from TN. I haven't been able to view anyone's profile, either.

[SpriteRemixClock]

Of the only stores mentioned, I've only heard of Cub Foods and Sam's Club, but Sam's Club sucks here in Chicago, and Cub Foods is kinda rare.

What about Jewel? Or Dominick's? Or Costco?

[T0MMY]

Trader Joe's - they stock organic items at very low prices, I love them. I only ever get my food from them, health stors, or local farmers.

-T0MMY

[Ted-Easton]

pfft. "Organic" foods.
I vote for Loblaws!

[MrTrivia]

I know Aldi isn't. The shopping carts have Quarter slots to prevent theft, they charge you for bags, they usually have only one of four check-out lanes open at any given time, they carry hardly any brand-name products, and they make you bag your own groceries at a bagging table instead of in the check-out lane. I think they do this because they're a German store.

[bigwalt]

Aldi's may not look like much, they are the 2nd largest grocery store chain in the world. In my town,which is close to nashville, we have 2 Foodlions, 1 Krogers, and a Publix. And I have noticed that Publix has put the screws to Krogers as of late. I work at Foodlion and our business has gone down a little but with the summer here it has picked back up. Publix's prices are too high and Krogers isn't much better. Can anybody tell me whether Hills department store is still operating?

[wdfcverfgtghm]

At 6/29/03 02:28 AM, Jonathan_Davis wrote: Or Costco?

Costco tricks it's consumers into buying more. They place the higher priced items, in the front of the store, the lower priced items in the back, so everyone has to go by the high priced items. Then they create a sense of urgency, by making it seem that, if you don't take a bargain immediatly, another consumer will take it, and rob you of your chance. That's why they always keep a low supply of unimportant but fast moving stock. Fortuntatly they never price anything 14% over cost, but buying a bundle pack of 4 VCRs 10% over cost isn't really a deal. They use every subversive tactic they possibly can, which makes me poot in their face.