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For the health-food-conscious shopper, there’s Whole Foods and Wild Oats. I’ve been in both a couple of times, but I can’t handle being around their clientele a whole lot.
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Tell me about it. I visited my parents in Fort Collins and it was a Friday night. I’m not used to crowds anymore, and it was also Cheese Sampling Night. Their produce was beautiful but it was annoying that the only canned black olives I could find were 3.49 a can! And the people were a snooty bunch.
Just for informative purposes, I’ll mention that Krogers, Ralphs, and Food 4 Less are all the same company (F4L is where Krogers and Ralphs sends their stuff after it’s been on the shelves for a few weeks). Threw me for a loop the first time I went to Vegas and wanted to find a Ralph’s – couldn’t find one anywhere, and was left wondering what this “Kroger’s” place was instead.
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
In the Sacramento metropolitan area:
Safeway, Raley’s/Bel Air, Albertsons, Whole Foods, CostCo, and one or two others that I can’t remember at this point.
My preference is the Bel Air division of Raley’s.
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Let me add Trader Joe’s, Winco, FoodCo, and Sam’s Club.
We shop at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op which is hardly a chain, but does have 2 locations. We also prefer Bel Air.
I live in Austin TX,
The main chain is HEB (virtual monoploy from what I see). Of course they did give the world Central Market.
The 2 closest Albertsons have closed their doors in the last couple of months.
Randalls - one of their nearby locations closed about 8 months ago.
Whole Foods - I think they started here.
I want to say that 4 out of the 5 closest stores are HEBs.
The SF Bay Area also has Cala/Bell stores, which are owned by Ralphs, which is in turn owned by Kroger.
[QUOTE=Eonwe]
Aren’t there two Wal-Marts? I thought that one had opened (or maybe it’s “will open” or “wants to open”) in St. Albans, about 20mi north.
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Well, I used there store locater, and while there is none in St.Albans (though I do remember lots of news stories about some new Wal-Mart, so they might be building one there,) there is one in Berlin. So we do have two, amd maybe soon to be three.
Damn.
[QUOTE=Elza B]
Here in NE Ohio, we have Giant Eagle, Acme, Fisher’s (local chain), Marc’s (discount groceries), and Super Wal-Mart.
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Wow - Cleveland still has Fisher’s??? They were Fisher/Fazio/Costa when I was a kid… I thought they were all gone by now.
BrianJedi, I used to shop at Slone’s (for incidentals) all the time, but they closed their Tates Creek store near my house. I think they’re putting a Whole Foods there instead.
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]
The Oriental Supermarket is at 5132 W Colonial, and the Caribbean Supercenter is right across the street at 5111. They’re between Kirkman and Pine Hills.
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OK, that is very far away from every place I ever go to, but I’ll have to make a special trip some time. Thanks!
Let’s see - Western Puget Sound Region - We have Albertson’s, Safeway, QFC (Kroger owned), Red Apple, Fred Meyers (also Kroger owned), Grocery Outlet.
My preferred stores are Safeway and Albertson’s - because they are the closest. Also like Fred Meyers
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou]
OK, that is very far away from every place I ever go to, but I’ll have to make a special trip some time. Thanks!
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I’ve noticed that everywhere in metro Orlando is very far from everywhere else in metro Orlando. Truly fascinating – maybe the center of Florida has some weird space dilation thing going on.
The usual,
Panda
Danube
Sawary Super Store
We will be getting a French hypermarket Carreflour at some point in the future. We really need a Marks & Spencer Food Court in my opinion.
I’m not sure how big the chain is (was) but I’ve patronized one or two Hoggly Woggly stores (somewhere between a convenience store and a grocery store) in rural north Florida. If your town’s got a Hoggly Woggly and a Piggly Wiggly—that’s big-time.
Growing up in New Jersey:
Acme, A&P, Pantry Pride, Shope Rite, Pathmark…
In Portsmouth, Ohio (Where I live now), we have Krogers, Save-a-lot, and Aldi.
I (mostly) grew up in McArthur, Ohio, where we have a Super Value, and we had a Krogers but it was closed when I was in elementary school.
My family also owns a farm in a tiny town near Mansfield, Ohio, where there is an IGA/Super Value (not sure what it is named now though).
Brendon
[QUOTE=myskepticsight]
When I lived in north St. Louis, we had Aldi, Shop n Save, Schnucks, Dierbergs and Save a Lot to choose from. They were all within 10 minutes of my childhood home. My parents usually went to Schnucks.
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(bolding mine) My father-in-law, when my in-laws came to visit us in St. Louis, always mispoke and called it Schmuks.
Funniest damn thing he ever said. 
Springfield, Illinois:
Aldi, Schnuck’s, Shop & Save, Cub Foods, a recently-opened County Market, a Wal-Mart Supercenter, one IGA (in the ghetto) and some place called GFS Foods or something, which is small (by grocery store standards), never advertises, and is in a part of town surrounded by electronics and hardware stores.
Dallas, TX:
Albertons, Kroger, Tom Thumb, and Minyards were all the big ones (with Minyards seeming to be fading fast)
Harford Co. MD
Weiss
Kleins
Giant
Superfresh
Mars
Drive 30 mins and we have a Wegmans which is good for getting Brit staples like Heinz Curried Beans, Cadbury Chocolate, Crumpets and PG Tips.
When In Virgina a long time ago, I saw a Food Lion and Food King. I always thought it would be funny if they merged and became Lion King.
Morris, MN: Let’s see, there’s Willie’s SuperValu, locally owned (they used to be affiliated with Red Owl). That’s THE supermarket in town-in its third location, and “Remember, we love you at Willie’s!”.
We also have a Coborn’s, which was a Holiday supermarket when I started college. Pro: They were open 24 hours a day. Cons: It smelled funky, and the freezers/coolers always seemed to be on the fritz. But, when I lived there for college, I ended up going there most often, due to it being open at 1:00 am.
We also have the Pomme de Terre Food Co-op, which is especially good for items in bulk (spices, flour, beans, etc). They also carry my preferred brand of shade grown fair trade coffee.
[QUOTE=Avarie537]
Indianapolis, IN:
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Safeway (I think there’s still one on the east side)
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Yep, I live near it. I don’t shop there because it smells bad.
Wal-Mart also has their Fresh Markets, or Neighborhood Market stores in Indy. Not as massive as the Super Wallys.
We are getting a Whole Foods Market on the north side next year.
Back where I lived on Long Island we have King Kullen, Waldbaum’s and Stop & Shop.
Now I’m in Manhattan and the main ones near me are Food Emporium, Whole Foods, Gristede’s & D’Agostino, plus hundreds of smaller shops & fancy upscale markets.