Consumer Reports Supermarket Ratings

[Anonymous No.6406552]

What are /ck/'s thoughts?

I was surprised to see Publix and Fresh Market so high in the produce and meat ratings as they have always been mediocre at best for me. The bakery and service is good though.

Wegman's at No. 1 seems about right.

[Anonymous No.6406558]

>>6406552
>whole foods is solid red dots
>trader joes is half black dots
>TJs still outranks whole foods

Consumer reports confirmed for being run by 20 year old college kids who can't, won't, and are not allowed to cook.

[Anonymous No.6406584]

>>6406558
Where do you shop?

I can't understand the appeal of TJ's beyond a couple ingredients and cheap cooking wine.

[Anonymous No.6406589]

>>6406584

Whole Foods, Eataly, the NY greenmarket, and Fairway, in roughly descending order of frequency.

[Anonymous No.6406644]

>>6406552
>both stores I frequent are in the upper quintile

>>6406589
>and Fairway
which, amusingly isn't ranked #4 on this list

[Anonymous No.6406646]

>>6406644

They said Fareway, I assume that's something else. There are only like 5 fairway stores total, why would consumer reports even bother listing them?

[Anonymous No.6406659]

>publix has a better bakery than whole foods

this is some sort of dumb joke, right?

[Anonymous No.6406676]

>>6406552
>Shoprite
>Not great, not terrible
That should be their slogan

[Anonymous No.6406707]

WEGMANS
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SUCK IT NON NEW YORKERS. I PITY YOU. CONSIDER SUICIDE

[Anonymous No.6406729]

>>6406707

What are you on about? I'm a new yorker and there's no wegmans here. Are you confused?

[Anonymous No.6406767]

>>6406729
confirmed for living shit york city

[Anonymous No.6406769]

>>6406767

Also new york county, and new york state.

If you live upstate, just say "upstate". "New York" = NYC, if not otherwise specified.

[Anonymous No.6406785]

>>6406552
pretty close actually... but honestly with produce it totally depends on the day you go and the source of ingredients. Sometimes wegmans is god tier... sometimes shoprite has better produce... everything else is accurate though

[Anonymous No.6406789]

>>6406769
Get given to jersey you dirty imigrant trash. New york belongs to upstate

[Anonymous No.6406790]

>>6406552
>#4. fareway
fuck yeah
>#12. hy-vee
eh people only really go there because they have a decent beer selection

[Anonymous No.6406791]

>>6406707
People in real cities don't need supermarkets to get stuff. I'm not even a New Yorker and I shop at shoprite.

[Anonymous No.6406792]

>>6406552
Publix is literally one of the best shops.

[Anonymous No.6406795]

>>6406789
Strong words for someone who wants to secede and join Pennsylvania so you can ruin our water supply

[Anonymous No.6406806]

>>6406584
>ingredients
>at TJ's
Can you teach me how to use a ready meal as an ingredient, please? That's all TJ's sells.

>>6406676
It really depends on the location. While Wegman's in general are always good, SR is always at least 'not great, not terrible,' but can also go as high as 'holy shitcunt, that's fantastic' depending on which one you visit.

>>6406558
No, they just published the preferences of soccer moms and woman with secretary butt who aren't secretaries. They merely published what their readers like/dislike and their readership is mostly soccer moms and women with secretary butt. As we all know, soccer mom's and women with secretary butt can't cook for shit, so of course they're going to pick the stores with the tastier ready meals.

>>6406552
I think publishing the preferences of soccer moms is a fuckstupid move. Those bitches don't cook. They're too busy helicoptering their children and drinking wine with the other soccer moms to actually cook anything. You can't judge a store's meat quality simply by the quality of the mince and the boneless, skinless chicken breasts, which together make up about 90% of the meat purchases of these culinarily stunted cunts.

[Anonymous No.6406815]

>tfw have a stop and shop around the corner and shop their exclusively because lazy

[Anonymous No.6406817]

>>6406806
>but can also go as high as 'holy shitcunt, that's fantastic' depending on which one you visit.
My shoprite is okay but for some reason has a better cheese selection than any supermarket.

[Anonymous No.6406818]

>>6406552
man poor winco, they have really good quality where I am. I have no idea how they got rekt so hard in this survey.

[Anonymous No.6406820]

>>6406552
Not good at anything, #11. A++

[Anonymous No.6406936]

Hy-Vee sucks ass. I was just there yesterday looking for an onion. ONE FUCKING ONION. They were all rotten. The white ones were covered in some black spotty shit. The red and yellow ones were all shriveled, and kept popping out of my hand due to their skin falling off. I've even seen onions there that were fucking sprouting.

The rest of their produce is hit-or-miss. Their potatoes go bad after about a week. The greens are usually wilted. The ginger is sometimes soggy for some inexplicable reason. The seafood is always rancid. I have to hold my breath when I walk past that counter.

The goddamn Wal-Mart has better produce.

[Anonymous No.6406961]

>>6406552
I'm unsurprised to see Aldi ranking so high, but also unsurprised to see it rank so low for produce and meat quality.

[Anonymous No.6406964]

>>6406806
Trader Joe's sells cheeses and some chicken sausages I can't find anywhere else near me and I have had good luck with their pastas.

[Anonymous No.6406970]

>>6406817
There are two in my immediate area and another two just a five minute drive beyond that.

Of the two nearest me, one is great for produce and seafood, the other for uncommon cuts of meat and uncommon produce (Asian/African-heavy area).

Of the two further away, one carries a huge number of Polish and Puerto Rican things since its smack dab in the middle of a PR area and a Polish one and the other is just general white American (and is the worst of the bunch for some reason).

All of them are surprisingly good for cheese, both domestic and imported.

[Anonymous No.6406972]

>>6406552
>HEB
Circling the drain, how the mighty have fallen.

[Anonymous No.6406996]

Market Basket would be number one on all counts if it werent for the fucking poor people that insist on shopping there

[Anonymous No.6407003]

>>6406707

Not that I live in NY anymore, but funny to see the Wegmans/Tops difference.

In AZ the Fry's/Safeway/Albertsons seem off for rating.

[Anonymous No.6407012]

>>6406552
>Bashas, food lion, safeway and stop and shop so low
>tjs so high
fuck this list

[Anonymous No.6407015]

>>6407003
I lived in CA most of my life and recently moved to WNY. I'll take Wegmans over the nicest Albertson's any day.

And Tops sucks. At least the two near me do.

[Anonymous No.6407039]

>>6407012
Food Lion is right where it fucking belongs, maybe when they learn to treat their workers better they can keep the ones that know what they're doing.

[Anonymous No.6407109]

>>6406552

KEK Target! You're supposed to be middle class chic.

[Anonymous No.6407112]

>>6406558

They grow up so slow these days, don't they?

[Anonymous No.6407150]

Wegman's and Pathmark ratings are right on.

Definitely visit a Wegmans if you've never been. Publix too.

Traders is a joke. Huge waste of time.

[Anonymous No.6407173]

Publix deserves that high rating. The stores are always really clean and brightly lit, and their prepared foods are the best. Especially the subs.

[Anonymous No.6407188]

>>6407173
Publix subs, fried chicken, and wings are fucking amazing.

[Anonymous No.6407228]

who f4l here

[Anonymous No.6407229]

>>6407173
too bad they are mostly in terrible states

[Anonymous No.6407266]

Fuck that shit. I love Aldi and no one can stop me.

>mfw only a shoprite, walmart, and aldi within twenty miles of me
>mfw east coast

Everyone in this desolate stretch of stripmall and poverty is a food pleb. Fuck my life.

At least I have an awesome produce outlet five miles away, dirt cheap, year-round, and amazing goods. Shoprite is ridiculously expensive, 2-3x as high.

[Anonymous No.6407541]

>>6407109
I thought Target was lower class chic. Their foods are pretty bad but then again they have only been selling groceries for 10-15 years.

[Anonymous No.6407646]

>>6407541

Well they use to be synonymous with lower class K-Mart and Walmart, but did try to rehab their "cheap" image around the 1999/2000 period with a huge TV ad campaign. I'd say their image did go up perception-wise among middle class and younger shoppers. Sure they aren't Nordstorm or Macy's, but I wasn't comparing them to those stores.

[Anonymous No.6408018]

>>6407266
What is good at Aldi? I hear everything there is really hit or miss.

[Anonymous No.6408044]

>>6408018
I don't know what sort of cooking you do, but the produce (save the onions) aren't bad. 49¢/lb for carrots and $1.38/lb for mushrooms are pretty fucking good prices and the quality is superb.

I cook a lot of central European food, so it's a godsend that their paprika is really, very good. It's about 8/10 but at a quarter the price of 9/10 paprika, so I buy it. I go through a few pounds every year, so it saves me a good deal of dosh to get from Aldi.

Their beef is generally ghastly, so I avoid it, but the pork is pretty decent as is the lamb, when they carry it. I tried the bacon once and it was so terrible, I never bothered a second time.

The imported cheeses are of great quality and very low price. The snack foods, too. They're selling potato cheese crackers right now that are just the bees knees.

I use instant coffee for baking and other stuff (not generally for drinking, though) and their instant is 8,5/10 as far as instant coffees go and it's only a third the price of Nescafé.

Um... pantry staples. Milk. Eggs. Sugar. Flour. That sort of stuff.

Their Nutella knock-off is good as well as super cheap ($1.69, IIRC). Same with the PB. Their all fruit jams are amazing.

I can't speak to the ready meals, though, since I don't generally buy or eat those much, but I did try these frozen corn fritters they were selling on manager's special and they're really, very good. I also tried some veggie burgers (southwest black bean; also a mixed veg one) and they were the best flavoured veggie burgers I've ever had.

Aldi's pretty baller.

[Anonymous No.6409831]

>>6408044
Good info, thanks.

[Anonymous No.6411632]

>>6406552
Trader Joes above Costco. Look, I like Trader Joes as much as the next person, but let's get real here.

[Anonymous No.6412283]

>>6406552
>live right next to marketbasket
god bless marketbasket they're so good to customers and everything's so cheap

[Anonymous No.6412331]

Holy fuck Walmart get your shit together

Its like during thier quest to be everything for everyone, they've turned into the worst place to get it all.
Worst produce, sub par meat, disgusting deli, understaffed in every department, and occupied by the most disgusting fucks the surrounding area has to offer.
Every Walmart turns into a community trough for all the fatties and drug dealers to converge and wallow around in.
It depresses me every time. ...but holy fuck you can find some cheap shit there if you're not worried about quality or self respect.

[Anonymous No.6412347]

>Safeway at 58
Strikes me as somewhat odd. However, I'm pretty sure all the Carrs stores in Alaska are just Safeway-owned versus Safeway-operated. They've always got killer (albeit expensive) produce.
Kroger and Costco seem about right. I drive 50 miles to Costco about once a month and it's definitely worth it.

[Anonymous No.6412349]

>>6412331
>DURR CRAFTSMAN HAS A LIFETIME WARRANTY!
I can buy 5 or 6 entire socket wrench sets at Wally World for the price of one set from Sears. Guess which store I'm buying my tools from? P.S. If you need any help with that one, I've made it through 30 years with only one socket wrench set.

[Anonymous No.6412353]

>mfw I shop at 5 out of the top 11.

[Anonymous No.6412378]

Waldbaums is indeed awful. Everything is overpriced and I don't remember the last time I saw a really fresh fruit or vegetable there. It's not just produce either, there have been multiple instances where I bought a "non-perishable" food that was expired already. Not sure what went wrong, a few years back it was a decent place.

[Anonymous No.6412425]

I have a Sprouts 5 minutes from me.

Produce is great with great prices
Grocery is underrated for niche sauces
Meat section is shit, like all the sausage and ground meat i've gotten there in the past 5 months has been spoiled or on-edge.

Bakery is okay but way overpriced..they know they can charge more for sweets and 'fresh' bread out of a freezer and popped in an oven

[Anonymous No.6412430]

based Trader Joe's

[Anonymous No.6412442]

>>6408044
They have a lot of different sorts of bacon, if you just tried the cheapest one it's not the best. They have center cut bacon which is much better, I haven't tried the others yet.

[Anonymous No.6412459]

>>6412442
Is the Aldi here as good as their European version?

http://gu.com/p/3dky9/stw

[Anonymous No.6412494]

Sprouts mustard race!

[Anonymous No.6412509]

hahahha #27, schnucks

verif: sprog

[Anonymous No.6412539]

>>6412459
>http://gu.com/p/3dky9/stw

Horse is leaner and healthier than beef, I know if they just labeled it "horse meat" and put "tastes likes venison!" on the packaging, they'd sell out daily.

[Anonymous No.6413962]

Shoprite! Excessively average at all times!

> me in supermarket form ;_;

[Anonymous No.6414007]

>>6408044
>the quality is superb
>quality is superb
>quality

I'm not sure if my Aldi is an outlier or they spend their nonexistent advertising budget on shills, but in my experience, Aldi is utter shit. Absolutely no service, incredibly inconsistent inventory, and their produce is rarely fresh. Their only redeeming quality is that they're super cheap, making them basically the dollar store of grocery.

[Anonymous No.6414021]

>>6406552
>tfw you grew up in the Adirondacks and only experienced the mythical Wegmans on rare trips to Rochester

[Anonymous No.6414157]

>>6414007
I find it depends on the location.
There are four Aldi stores I know of, two near me. The one closest to me has the better quality produce (other than the onions; fuck me, I don't what's up with those onions, but they go to shit too quickly). The other of the two has meh-tier produce.

As for 'inconsistent inventory,' yes: the special items are inconsistent, this is true. That's what makes them special. There're four whole sections of the store that have them. If it bothers you, either don't buy from those sections or do as I do, buy somethng, try it, then go back and stock up on more if you like it.

One section is for shelf stable specials. It's usually the second aisle. Another is for non-food specials. That can be anywhere. A third is frozen specials. That's usually near the back corner. The last is refrigerated specials. It's usually right by the frozen specials.

And yeah: the quality for the carrots and mushrooms and lettuce and other stuff is indeed superb. The lettuce mine sells is from Tanimura Farms, a company known for its quality produce. The carrots and mushrooms are the same brands as the other grocery stores in my area but for a fraction of the cost. They're likely used as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leaders

And a shill wouldn't say that the bacon is bad, which I did because it is. It's fucking horrible. Or, at least, I thought so.

If you don't like your Aldi, either give up on shopping there or find one you do like. You know: it's a "light a candle rather than curse the darkness" sort of situation.

[Anonymous No.6415597]

>>6412425
That is what my experience was at sprouts. Best part was the bulk foods section that I don't see anywhere else anymore. Their dark chocolate and key lime covered pretzels rule.

[Anonymous No.6415603]

>>6406552
H E B
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HEB isn't first, so the study is void.

[Anonymous No.6416137]

Based H.E.B