# So what's the deal with guys & grocery stores?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-guys-grocery-stores/25331>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 12, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-guys-grocery-stores/25331 "2000-07-12T18:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-guys-grocery-stores/25331/61 "2000-07-17T20:53:14Z")

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I’m from the bay area, California. What are:

(1) Meijer’s?  
(2) Kroger’s?  
(3) Aisle scooting?

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-guys-grocery-stores/25331/62 "2000-07-18T03:03:52Z")

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I love shopping. Just got a new place in Austin and can’t wait to try out the Central Market

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**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-guys-grocery-stores/25331/63 "2000-07-18T04:43:02Z")

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**puglvr** asked:

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I’m from the bay area, California. What are:

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                     (1) Meijer's?
                     (2) Kroger's?
                     (3) Aisle scooting? **

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(1)Meijer’s (pronounced “MAYE-ers” just like Oscar) is the greatest store ever invented. Take a K-Mart or a Wal-Mart. A REALLY big one. Combine that with a BIG, full service grocery store. And put a gas station out front and an auto mechanic around the side. That’s a Meijer’s. It’s literally ALL the shopping you ever need to do in one stop. It’s unreal. They have them in the midwest, Ohio-Indiana-Illinois mostly.

(2)Just a standard grocery store. If I’m not mistaken, they have them in the Mid-Atlantic/Upper South. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Krogers in Virginia. Like a Safeway or a Pathmark or a Shop’n’Save or a Dominick’s or a Food Lion or whatever your local supermarket chain is.

(3)I have no idea.

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**Author:** ![PowerpuffKue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@PowerpuffKue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PowerpuffKue)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-guys-grocery-stores/25331/64 "2000-07-18T05:43:31Z")

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Start playing “Supermarket Sweep” and see how long it is before your kicked out.

And if you don’t get kicked out, beware, a pound of candy, is a hundred dollars, so is coffee!

Don’t even think about Bread or Magazines, $250.

🙂

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