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WINCO for most shit, fancy local chain for luxuries. One specific Lucky’s, their meat counter has the best deli bacon of the grocery stores locally.
…almost exclusively from sprouts, supplemented with occasional trips to target or HEB when we need paper products…
Winco, Uwajimaya, Fred Meyer.
Wish I could shop at one place instead of all three, but they all have different things.
It’ll be a cold day in hell when Winco decides to sell loose-leaf genmaicha and Uwajimaya sells freezer burritos.
Hy-Vee, Aldi, or the Natural Grocer, depending on my grocery budget for the week
Mostly MarketBasket or Costco. Occasionally Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, or Hannaford
Primarily Aldi but occasionally Kroger for things Aldi doesn’t have or if I’m too late for their hours.
Mostly Kroger and Costco
I get most of my produce, seafood, and various Asian ingredients from a couple of local Vietnamese grocery stores.
I get my American products and general stuff like dish detergent mostly at Safeway (though I’m now switching to QFC because my local Safeway got rid of the shopping baskets and I don’t like to use carts).
I get my Japanese food from a local chain called Uwajimaya.
I get non-seafood meat from any of the above.
I go to a lot of stores…
HEB, sams club, sprouts, trader joe’s, Walmart, in descending order of frequency.
Chinese and Indian grocery stores for some specific items.
My family is two adults, three cats, and two dogs.
I get dinners from hello fresh. Meats from the local butcher. Produce and dry goods from both stater bros grocery and sprouts grocery. If I make it early enough on the weekends in spring and summer I try to go to the farmers market for produce.
I work in food service too and bring home a lot of samples, so those end up in my pantry when we can’t finish them at work.
safeway
At a local-ish chain called Tops, mostly. I live in Upstate New York if anyone wants to look them up. Pretty standard grocery with decent daily prices, and they still run weekly deals and coupons in the paper like most places used to do about 20 years ago. Even with my dietary restrictions, I can get most of my groceries there for a decent price.
Anything I don’t get there, I get at the other local brand called Wegmans. They are pricey, but have more specialty food, partnerships with local farms for really good seasonal produce, and some items that they have made for their own name-brand that are cheaper than the big name alternative.
I also make it a point to stop at farmers markets and the like throughout the year. Most of them have partnered with programs that allow you to use, and even double, your food stamps/EBT (I don’t use it but give rides to friends who do), and getting to connect with the local farmers is always nice.
I went to college in Western New York and I miss Wegmans so much. SUCH a great chain. Between Wegmans, Tops, and Aldi you can find anything.
Wegmans is awesome, their pharmacy is especially. Sometimes they drop things off the shelves I want and have to go to a different location for, but they are things I can stock up on if needed. I admit I haven’t really gone to Tops much, though the Millennium games in the same plaza is neat. Public Market is a treasure, especially for the EBT part. Lot of local produce for cheap and the selection of goods overall is impressive to someone who grew up with Walmart.
Their pharmacy has been hit and miss for me, and I ultimately had to stop going there because they allowed their pharmacists to refuse to fill a script if they had a “moral objection”. This resulted in my usual location having their pharmacist refuse to fill my HRT script. That was years ago though, so they may have changed that?
That is crazy! I live near RIT and the one on Calkins has been a champion fighting to make sure I had my ADHD meds every month when the shortage was really bad. Whole mess with the doctor, wrong script, them calling my doctor’s office over and over during the holiday season, and ultimately holding pills off to the side so they would have something to give me the next day. That location especially has been amazing. I can’t even imagine that location denying medication.
That’s amazing! Yeah, stuff like that varies by location. I am glad they have been able to help you with that.
Oh man I love Wegmans!
75% HEB, 25% Kroger
Publix. They’re in that middle bracket where I can still afford to shop there and yet they also seem to pay their employees a living wage.
ALDI. There are certain things I grab at Dollar Tree and a few things we have to throw on a Walmart or Kroger list since ALDI doesn’t have as big of a selection.
