What is considered the lowest end grocery store in your region. (the one you are scared to buy meat from)

[TwinkleToes77]

No-Frills, across the street from me. I never shop there it's a filthy store.

 

[Baked]

Foods Co. sells the cheapest food, especially ice cream. But it's in the ghetto and you bag your own grocery.

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
No-Frills, across the street from me. I never shop there it's a filthy store.

Where in Ontario do you live?

 

[TwinkleToes77]

Originally posted by: brigden

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
No-Frills, across the street from me. I never shop there it's a filthy store.

Where in Ontario do you live?

Scarborough, though moving in 2 months to Ajax

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
There are a number of places I won't shop at, usually not for fear of bad meat. There's a Safeway on University Ave in Seattle that's rather crime-ridden, for example, that I avoid.

Real Change, sir!?

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77

Originally posted by: brigden

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
No-Frills, across the street from me. I never shop there it's a filthy store.

Where in Ontario do you live?

Scarborough, though moving in 2 months to Ajax

I'm so sorry. Glad to hear you're moving.

 

[deftron]

Be-Lo

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
Aldi's

http://www.aldi.us/FAQs/print.html

Text Why do I need a quarter to use a shopping cart at ALDI?
At ALDI, we employ every cost-cutting measure possible to help keep your prices low. Our shopping cart ?rental? system is a good example. You insert a quarter to use a cart; when your cart is returned, so is your quarter. This innovative system allows us to minimize cost and pass the savings along to you.

Is it true that you charge for shopping bags?
We don?t hide the cost of our grocery bags in the price of our products, the way other stores do. You can either pay a small fee to purchase paper or plastic bags?or bring your own. Of course, we encourage recycling of bags.

Aldi's is definitely the lowest-end grocery store I know of, but the cart "rental" thing is done at higher end grocery stores as well. I wish ALL grocery stores would do it, I wouldn't have to deal with idiots who think it's appropriate to put their cart next to or against my car because they're too lazy to walk 50 feet to the nearest cart corral. It would also free up the parking spots that people leave their carts in.

It amazes me how lazy and inconsiderate people are.

 

[ShadowBlade]

jacks fish shanty (no joke, thats really the name)

 

[Eli]

Hmm....

I wouldn't consider any of the bigger stores "low quality". Safeway, Albertsons, WinCo, Food-4-less, Haggens, Thriftway... they all have the same stuff.

It's those little mini-marts that worry me.....

Edit: Ooh, I've got one.

Grocery Outlet. I don't know if they're just a local thing or not, but .. sure, you can find good deals, but you've got a 98% chance that the food you're buying is expired.

I admit, it isn't a big deal for a lot of things... But still, you go in there.. and you can just tell that sh!t is.. old. It's generally a big AVOID. Unless you're mexican*.






*Well, it's true. No offense to the resident latinos.

 

[jst0ney]

I just moved from SoCal. I hated Stater Bros. I think they are the worst store ever. Give me Safeway or QFC anyday.

 

Originally posted by: loki8481
ShopRite, mostly because of it's location.

it's near the ghetto, so there's always people in there using food stamps. I love the food stamps program; I think it's wonderful and great and I like that my tax dollars support it. but it seems like people always buy a lot more food than their food stamps allow for, so they spend time in line trying to figure out what to buy and what to put back on the shelf, and the food stamps themselves take awhile to process since there is some paperwork involved at the register.

I just can't stand waiting in line for half an hour when I'm just buying $20 worth of groceries and paying cash.

Aren't food stamps now debit-card like devices? What sort of paperwork is involved?

 

[sswingle]

The only thing that worries me after working in one of the big chain stores (and this can happen anywhere) is that people get busy or called off to do something else when the truck is being unloaded, and stuff sits on the dock with no refrigeration for god knows how long.

 

[phreakah]

there's a supermarket out here that i always pass by called GIGANTE

i'd never set foot in that place

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: loki8481
ShopRite, mostly because of it's location.

it's near the ghetto, so there's always people in there using food stamps. I love the food stamps program; I think it's wonderful and great and I like that my tax dollars support it. but it seems like people always buy a lot more food than their food stamps allow for, so they spend time in line trying to figure out what to buy and what to put back on the shelf, and the food stamps themselves take awhile to process since there is some paperwork involved at the register.

I just can't stand waiting in line for half an hour when I'm just buying $20 worth of groceries and paying cash.

Aren't food stamps now debit-card like devices? What sort of paperwork is involved?

don't know... most people have the debit-cards, but I've also seen some people with that looks like checks.

 

Originally posted by: aircooled
Here is has to be Food Lion (south east)

name yours

I was going to say Wal-Mart, but you already excluded them!

I would have to say Grocery Outlet. I don't even know if they sell meat (because I don't shop there), but I know that I freak out when I think about the quality of their products. Actually, there's this other store called 99 Cents store. I don't know if they sell meat, but they do sell foods. I couldn't ever buy from them. However, I've managed to convince myself to buy a few candies from them because it's too tempting to resist.

My other consideration would be Food4Less. However, I'm not afraid of buying meat from them. I don't have a problem buying things from them generally, but I don't like things like juice and pumpkin pie from them. It's more of inferior quality in comparison to other stores than it is fear of poison, expired or spoilt food.... For grocery store fast food and bakery, I would have to say Albertson's (formerly known as Lucky's). They sell crappy meat and chicken. The meat and chicken are extremely salty and mushy.

For best quality in every sense, I would give it to Safeway. However, they are way too expensive.

 

[Ryan]

Save-A-Lot. That said - I shop almost exclusivly at Publix.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: ricochet

Originally posted by: Orsorum
There are a number of places I won't shop at, usually not for fear of bad meat. There's a Safeway on University Ave in Seattle that's rather crime-ridden, for example, that I avoid.

Real Change, sir!?

 

[thirdlegstump]

C Town

 

[BlackAdam]

Vallarta (Mexican)

 

[paulney]

Mi Pueblo. This mexican store not far from the place I used to live.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
Aldi's

http://www.aldi.us/FAQs/print.html

Text Why do I need a quarter to use a shopping cart at ALDI?
At ALDI, we employ every cost-cutting measure possible to help keep your prices low. Our shopping cart ?rental? system is a good example. You insert a quarter to use a cart; when your cart is returned, so is your quarter. This innovative system allows us to minimize cost and pass the savings along to you.

Is it true that you charge for shopping bags?
We don?t hide the cost of our grocery bags in the price of our products, the way other stores do. You can either pay a small fee to purchase paper or plastic bags?or bring your own. Of course, we encourage recycling of bags.

Aldi's is definitely the lowest-end grocery store I know of, but the cart "rental" thing is done at higher end grocery stores as well. I wish ALL grocery stores would do it, I wouldn't have to deal with idiots who think it's appropriate to put their cart next to or against my car because they're too lazy to walk 50 feet to the nearest cart corral. It would also free up the parking spots that people leave their carts in.

It amazes me how lazy and inconsiderate people are.

I normally push 2 carts into a store,and leave One outside when I am done.
SO that the net is I brought a cart in. LOL
Yeah I am lazy.

 

[machintos]

I would have to say fiesta here in Houston.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Here is has to be Food Lion (south east)

name yours

Man I cant understand why Food Lion is still in business. I guess most of you didnt see the news footage from the Texas area stores in the early 1990s, before they closed all their stores in Texas.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Save-A-Lot. That said - I shop almost exclusivly at Publix.

Theres a Save A Lot here, but I think the run down Kroger and HEB Pantry stores are worse. Atleast the new Save A Lot is clean...