/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16724096]

what are you guy's favorite grocery stores?

ive lived in the PNW, midwest and the South and for me, it's:

>Publix
>Winco
>Hy-Vee
>Safeway (something comfy about Safeways)
>Food4Less
>Kroger
.
power gap
>Piggly Wiggly

[Anonymous No.16724104]

>>16724096
Don't disrespect the Pig.

[Anonymous No.16724109]

>>16724096
Where I live
>fresh market
>luckys
>target
>publix

We just got a Trader Joe’s and I’m excited to see if it will live up to the hype

[Anonymous No.16724110]

>>16724096
Anyone hyped about the new publix in St elmo, GA?

[Anonymous No.16724114]

>>16724110
Sorry, st. elmo Tennessee.

[Anonymous No.16724123]

mine would have to be WinCo, especially in the overnight hours. that, along with h-mart.

[Anonymous No.16724124]

>>16724096
Every Winco that I’ve been to is super nasty and ghetto. Good prices though.

[Anonymous No.16724141]

>>16724123
Are they open 24 hours? Pretty much every store around here that used to be open around the clock stopped doing that at the start of the pandemic and don't look like they're going to go back to 24/7 hours anytime soon.

[Anonymous No.16724170]

>>16724141
they're open 24/7 in my region, that's what lured me into shopping there. it's an entirely different world at night.

[Anonymous No.16724171]

>>16724124
op here, this is my experience with food4less. theyre super ghetto but they have good meats and mexican shit.

>>16724114
i live in east tn now, love Publix. im excited for you guys

[Anonymous No.16724173]

>>16724104
>WIfags shit up another thread

Sad!

[Anonymous No.16724200]

>>16724096
For me, it's Chunk-e Friend

[Anonymous No.16724238]

When I'm in MA I'm gonna have to go with Big Y. Even when they open in small towns off major roads they build absolutely beautiful stores with a little coffee shop inside and a lunch counter. The seafood counter will grill or fry your fish or steam your shellfish for you free of charge. So nice to go in at 6pm and order half a dozen lobsters and at 6:10 they're all steamed and wrapped up and at 6:20 we're home eating lobsta.

Honorable Mention: Hannaford

When I'm in Stralia it's Coles 100%. Woolies fags can fight me.

[Anonymous No.16724244]

midwest Meijer chads report in

[Anonymous No.16724251]

Publix is just about the only grocery store that seems to make a point of telling employees to keep their wagey angst to themselves, and they'll continue to have my business for as long as I have a place to buy food without some nursing school 5/10 souring my produce with their resentful vibes.

[Anonymous No.16724324]

>>16724238
Wtf do you do that requires you to go to MA and Australia often

>>16724251
Same. Publix is based about their wagies and they hire a ton of qts

[Anonymous No.16724356]

My Sprouts in Vegas had an amazing apple selection but since moving to Caliwali it's been kind of crappy

[Anonymous No.16724445]

Muh go-to

[Anonymous No.16724488]

>>16724109
Trader Joe's is alright. Cheap wine and actually pretty good frozen stuff if that's your thing.
Nothing to really write home about though.

[Anonymous No.16724537]

>>16724445
>black lives matter
>gay flag hanging
this is the average /ck/ poster. how much markup do you have to pay for lgbt-rights in iraq?

[Anonymous No.16724542]

>>16724109
>Lucky's

Broooo haven't seen one of those in ages

[Anonymous No.16724543]

>>16724244
Kroger

[Anonymous No.16724551]

>>16724324
>Wtf do you do
I am a resident of both places and depending on the winds of my education and job opportunities I may be here or there for a year or number of years at a time. Although my professional career is pretty much all done and settled and I haven't left Aus in 5 years at this stage.

I look forward to going to my local Big Y during autumn, getting some fresh apple cider and mcintosh apples from the orchard down the road, maybe a proper punkin or strawberry rhubarb pie, and enjoying some fresh New England seafood. So much wonderful stuff I miss that you can't really get in Australia

[Anonymous No.16724562]

>>16724542
I thought they rebranded into Albertson's circa 2000

[Anonymous No.16724582]

>>16724562
maybe that's why I haven't seen one in ages broooo haha

[Anonymous No.16724590]

>>16724096
>pleading allegiance to any one single grocery store that treats its workers like shit
>instead of just shopping around for deals.

[Anonymous No.16724608]

>>16724590

>treats its workers like shit

I'm buying broccoli, not dropping a resume.

[Anonymous No.16724623]

>>16724488
>>16724109
They're pretty good for staples. Veggies, salmon, pasta, canned foods, coffee, spices, etc are all cheaper there than at Sprouts and are of similar or better quality.

[Anonymous No.16724644]

CONSOOOOOM what is your favorite CONSOOM BOX to CONSOOOOOOM from

[Anonymous No.16724655]

>>16724644
you don't shop for groceries

[Anonymous No.16724657]

>>16724644
Breatharian?

[Anonymous No.16725036]

How fat are you op?

[Anonymous No.16725053]

For me, it's Demoulas. They are based in NH, MA, and ME. They sell better meat, fish, and produce than Stop & Rob or Hannaford and they sell it cheaper

[Anonymous No.16725054]

For me it's
>Kaufland
>HIT
>Fantastico
>Billa
>CBA
>Stivi
>Lidl

Lidl is fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.16725067]

>>16725053
You mean Market Basket? They have good prices and gigantic stores but any claims of quality meat and produce are quite dubious at best

[Anonymous No.16725114]

Félix Potin
Prisunic

[Anonymous No.16725301]

>Publix
>Fresco Y Mas
>Sedano’s


Power Gap
>Winn Dixie

[Anonymous No.16725378]

>>16724200
more of a Korb Torson's guy myself

[Anonymous No.16725380]

At least twice I have been in Wegmans and heard people talking on their cell phone about how much better Wegmans was than Publix.
>this place is much bigger and nicer than Publix

[Anonymous No.16725383]

>>16725378
lol that's awesome brother. glad we could talk to each other online

[Anonymous No.16725388]

>>16725383
absolutely! Have a good one

[Anonymous No.16725390]

>>16725380
I'm in management at Wegmans. I used to love the job, thought it was amazing, can't really stand the company anymore. Looking to get out.

[Anonymous No.16725400]

>>16724096
Publix
WinCo
Costco
Aldi
Piggly Wiggly
Albertsons
Safeway
Kroger
Kash n Carry
Sweetbay (idk if sweetbay and Kash n Carry are still around, haven't been back to Florida in ten years)
Target
Walmart
Winn-Dixie if I'm starving to death and every other alternative is out of stock for some reason.

[Anonymous No.16725407]

>>16725390
Don't go to whole foods, it's much much worse there.

[Anonymous No.16725423]

>>16724562
Nah, we had a Lucky's in Billings, Montana until 2019, and there's like ten Albertsons in that city alone.
Now I'm in Saint Paul and it's mostly just Target and Aldi.

[Anonymous No.16725428]

>used to work for whole farts and fucking hated it
>nobody mentions whole farts as their favorite
>feels good

[Anonymous No.16725431]

>>16724608
This. I don't care about the working conditions of teenagers and old ladies, self checkout is a godsend, I hope all grocery stores do self checkout exclusively.

[Anonymous No.16725442]

>>16725431
>working as a cashier at the grocery store without getting paid or any kind of discount for it
>self checkout is a godsend

[Anonymous No.16725455]

>>16725442
>Every self checkout moves along at lightning speed compared to the stands manned by Granny Jo or some pimple faced burnout
>This is bad because you can twist words and make it like you're working for free when you're just cutting out the middle man and doing less work at twice the speed
Maybe when they start making us stock the place ourselves, you'll have an argument, but as it stands you're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.16725482]

>>16725455
>doing less work
>unloads, scans and bags his own groceries
I guess you've never been to one of these grocery stores where you just pull your cart up and the cashiers actually have IPM requirements. Sucks to suck I guess.

[Anonymous No.16725514]

>>16725482
>Have to unload groceries
>Have to wait for Granny Jo to scan them
>She can't figure out the newfangled electronic contraptions despite working there for years
>Have to bag groceries myself after waiting ages for her to scan them
This is true at Wegmans, Trader Joes, and Whole Foods as well, and yes, I'll admit those are the fanciest places I've been, and I really don't know of anywhere fancier and frankly I don't want to spend extra money at the grocery store just for convenience. No one has a bagger, anymore, you bag your shit yourself everywhere and you're lying if you say there's a place that still bags for you, that hasn't been the industry standard in years.
With self checkout, I scan and bag, sure, but I'm out of there in a quarter of the time it takes to rely on someone whose only job is to scan items, yet they can't even do that quickly and efficiently.
In summation, eat my shit encrusted hemorrhoidal asshole, wagie, your days are numbered.

[Anonymous No.16725541]

>>16725514
>and you're lying if you say there's a place that still bags for you, that hasn't been the industry standard in years.
There's literally one less than 10 minutes away that pretty much always has a bagger and the service is consistently fast. It's in a wealthy area, though so it makes sense that you don't know about these.
>wagie
Guy I run my own company and work mostly from the comfort of my own home when I'm not meeting clients in person. I don't bag my own groceries.

[Anonymous No.16725572]

>>16725541
I made, and continue to make, millions off crypto and stocks and "work" exclusively from home, often when I'm taking a fat shit; I still bag and scan my own groceries. Who are you trying to impress? Must be new money, I remember those days.

[Anonymous No.16725577]

>>16725572
>I'm a crypto millionaire
I'm sure you are sweatie lol. Why even lie on the internet? What's the point?

[Anonymous No.16725593]

>>16725577
I dumped my life savings into Bitcoin when it was starting and made $5million. Sorry you didn't jump on when you had the chance. You might still make some good money on dogecoin, and Uma looks promising. Take my advice or don't, it's your choice.

[Anonymous No.16725597]

my local co-op, of course
everything else is trash

[Anonymous No.16725603]

>>16725593
I'm not taking financial advice from some rando mentally ill cryprobro on 4chan, so no. Have fun LARPing.

[Anonymous No.16725616]

>>16725603
Okay, have fun larping with your work from home "company" and your "clients".

[Anonymous No.16725632]

>>16724096
Giant, but it's fairly local.

[Anonymous No.16725662]

>>16724096
I like Meijer's or Piggly Wiggly, Hyvee is aight but a bit expensive

I hate Aldi.

Full disclosure though, 90% of the time I just go to walmart.

[Anonymous No.16726857]

>>16724537
somebody took the bait
>>16725597
Based

[Anonymous No.16726889]

>>16725380
Based Wegmans poster. I couldn't imagine shopping at a place like Publix that is just a regular grocery store with a deli counter that apparently makes sandwiches worth praising on a mongolian basket weaving forum. This place looks like a Walmart but with that vomit green color everywhere.

[Anonymous No.16726934]

>>16724096
In the PNW I have a soft spot for Fred Meyer, which is owned by Kroger. I live further away now, but when I was going in all the time they used to have the friendliest and most helpful cashiers. Safeway is pretty much the same. Fred Meyer is a department store, but Safeway has a better variety of ice cream and beer.

Food4Less is pretty comfy and has a lot of mexican stuff, and a really great beer aisle.

Winco has good prices, but it's clear on the other end of town. Their produce is a shit show though. They have a good selection, but it will probably be moldy by the time you get home.

I like a super local place called Cartwrights because they have a lot of weird specialty stuff and local meats. It's worth the drive for a deli sandwich.

DESU though Walmart and Costco are the two I usually go to first for a lot of stuff, simply because they're both conveniently located for me.

[Anonymous No.16726953]

Local market > central market > Whole Foods = Trader Joe’s > HEB

Brookshires or Kroger’s if absolutely desperate. ALDIs for deals, Walmart for paper goods

[Anonymous No.16727006]

>>16725390
Which Wegmans? I was an overnight shift supervisor at Chili-Paul for three years.

[Anonymous No.16728361]

>>16726934
Medford OR?

[Anonymous No.16728621]

>>16728361
kek, Cartwrights kind of narrows it down, doesn't it?

[Anonymous No.16728629]

>>16726934
>In the PNW I have a soft spot for Fred Meyer
Fred Meyers are pretty nice, especially when it’s a newer larger one.

[Anonymous No.16728665]

>>16724238
Market Basket is the superior MA supermarket.

[Anonymous No.16728710]

>>16728665
Every time I've been to a MB I've wanted to punch every cunt in there right in the back of the head. The quality of their customers is shocking. It's full of trash you'd find on a discount cruise ship or strip mall in some midwestern slum. Someone should start a "People of Market Basket" website, it'll be better than the Walmart one.


EDIT: holy fucking shit it exists

[Anonymous No.16728994]

>>16728710
Maybe the one in Westford is an anomaly but it's clean, well-stocked and I've seen relatively few troglodytes shopping there. The Big Y by me isn't bad, but it doesn't have the selection of Market Basket.

[Anonymous No.16729020]

>>16724171
Go Vols and go publix

[Anonymous No.16729021]

>>16724644
based and onionspilled

[Anonymous No.16729113]

>>16728994
Well next time you're down visiting bucolic Oxford Mass, stop at the MB there. Just try to avoid punching some old lady's teeth out you might get slapped with a minor fine or whatever the punishment is for that.

[Anonymous No.16729290]

Fred Meyer is rebranded Walmart. Probably the worst regional grocery store I've ever encountered

[Anonymous No.16729820]

>>16729290
You're a mongoloid and have probably never been to one. They're literally one of the first true department stores, and they have far more soul than Walmart.

[Anonymous No.16729845]

>>16729820
True, but they did merge with Kroger in 1998.

[Anonymous No.16729852]

>>16724096
>Hy-Vee
That's my shit. I used to work there. They had the best sesame chicken at the time. No idea about now

[Anonymous No.16729857]

>>16724096
When I lived in the PNW I'd always hit up Safeway. They had a decent deli but Publix still shits all over them.

[Anonymous No.16730008]

Harris Teeter

[Anonymous No.16730505]

Wegmans
Everything else is garbage in comparison

[Anonymous No.16730687]

Walmart Marketplace for super basic shit

Various local international markets for all the ingredients and cuts of meat you can't get in a normal store. Asian store near me also makes a great bahn mi.