Supermarket Names

I remember Acme from when I was a kid in Pennsylvania. I was always looking for Wile E. Coyote when we went shopping.

I live in the birthplace of Piggly Wiggly (Memphis) and there is only one left in town. But we do have The Pink Palace, a beautiful mansion built by the supermarket inventor but never lived in as he lost his fortune soon after it was built. Now it is a wonderful museum. Just a little history hijack. :slight_smile:

I shopped at the Piggly Wiggly (aka The Pig) for years when I lived in Midtown. Now it’s a Cash$aver. Since I moved out east, I shop at Kroger. There aren’t any other big-name stores in the area. There are a few cheap ones, though. I pass a Sav-A-Lot on my way home from work. One night I just needed some fruit for my lunches and decided to check it out. It had a tiny produce section and the stuff looked like it had come from the dumpsters behind real grocery stores. I’ve never seen such disgusting bananas. And the prices weren’t even cheaper than Kroger.

Honolulu has:

Foodland (local)
Times (local)
Food Pantry (local, in Waikiki only)
Don Quijote (Japanese)
Safeway (national)
Whole Foods (national)

We do NOT have Super Wal-mart or Super Target, just the regular stores with limited grocery sections. My WAG is the unions keep them out.

Here in Nebraska there used to be a chain called (no shit) Hinky Dinky.

Alpha Beta got merged into Ralph’s, I think.

Does Denver still have King Sooper stores?

I remember shopping at a Kash n Karry in Florida, along with Publix and another one I forgot.

Other competition for Whole Foods are Earth Fare and Fresh Market.

Speaking of Piggly Wiggly, they used to sell black bumper stickers with yellow lettering that said “I’m sticking with the Pig!” I was behind a car one day that had a new version of the sticker: they took a black sharpie to the “with”. :smiley:

While vacationing in St Martin, we get groceries at Le Grand Marche. Prices are in Dutch (florins?) which is sometimes scary. The register says you owe 213.00, then they convert it to US dollars and it’s $33.50.

Does anyone in the Dallas area remember Tom Thumb? I think it was a gourmet-ish grocery store before those were common.

(My former mother-in-law used to pronounce it “tom tum.”)

The Netherlands uses the euro. Before 2002, it was the guilder. Strangely enough, the symbol for guilder was fl.

Yep, I was guessing florin based on the fl. On the French side most things are marked in Euros, and places that want to attract Americans have =E signs. The Dutch side is all over the place, with fl,E, equally represented. Buying gasoline can be scary, as some pumps are in guiders/liter. The money wheel spins very fast.

Places I shop(ped):

Moo & Oink
Wegmen’s (sp?)
Target
Walmart
Aldi
Dominick’s
Eurofresh
Joe Caputo & Sons
Jewel
Royal Blue
Garden Fresh
Fresh Market
Whole Foods
Meier
Mariano’s
Various and sundry neighborhood markets for ethnic food or butcher shops that aren’t chains and whose names escape me and maybe a few other stores that I just can’t remember.

And I am planning a MOMENTUS campaign whereby I will get Piggly Wiggly in the old Dominick’s where I always shopped. So far, it is not working, but I will carry on. :smiley:

Sack ‘n’ Save

The Denver area is still awash in King Soopers, which seem to be a subsidiary of Kroger’s.

There used to be Kroger’s in south central Texas, but HEB seems to have run them out, although I noticed that Kroger’s can still be found in the Dallas area.

Kum & Go are not to be found in south central Texas, which is good, because we would have laughed ourselves sick. Instead, one will find Sac-N-Pac, except in individual stores which have broken free of the chain, and often call themselves Pac-N-Sac.

The Texas Gulf Coast used to have Maverick Market. In recent decades, they seem to have closed them down.

There is a convenience store in New London CT called - deep breath - PUMP N’ MUNCH.

There’s a local chain (2 stores) in Cincinnati called Jungle Jim’s. It’s ridiculously over-sized. But they have foods from every region on earth. If you have a recipe that calls for something unusual, this is the place to go.

We have lots around here (DFW, Texas). We mostly go to Kroger, Tom Thumb (not especially gourmet, ThelmaLou), or Market Street, sometimes Aldi if we’re passing by. We get some canned goods and random stuff at Costco (warehouse store), and drop in to several others once in a while: Big Lots, a couple of dollar stores, Target. Then there are Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Trader Joe’s. We used to go to a Hispanic-oriented supermarket called Elrod’s, but they changed to Foodland and closed soon after. And don’t forget the assorted ethnic markets!

(I see I left out Central Market, probably because I never liked that place much.)

Food Lion actually tried to establish a presence in Bangkok but sold its few branches to Tops Supermarket 11 years ago. I recall it not being very good, at least not the ones here.

Of the. Name worthy of mention by me.

Big Y
Pricechopper

I don’t have a clue what the big Y means. Pricechopper has a logo of a axe to a coin.

Jitney Jungle. It was mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Our local Piggly Wiggly website is: