To help you stretch your grocery dollar -- the average U.S. family spends about $5,000 per year -- our latest supermarket feature couldn't come at a better time. Our reporter's shopping expeditions prove that you can save hundreds, even thousands of dollars per year. Our Consumer Reports National Research Center survey of 32,599 subscribers reveals big differences among 59 national and regional chains. Some were far better than others at offering low prices (Trader Joe's, Costco, Market Basket, WinCo, Aldi, and Sav-a-Lot), praiseworthy meat and produce (Wegmans and Whole Foods), or top service (Wegmans, Trader Joe's, and Raley's). MORE HERE
I work for Food Lion, and even though lots of their older stores can look tired and a bit rough, I have never worked for a company with a more strict sanitation program, so the below average cleanliness is a bit misleading, but I understand that some of the old stores can give the impression of less clean. The big push right now is improving customer service, the training has been very poor in the past but is getting better. I am lucky, the store that I work in always shines like a new penny!
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Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them you are a mile away and you have their shoes!
Kroger is becoming too rubber stamp. There are some areas where they could sell more high end items in this state, but it seems like they want you to be able to walk in every store and see the exact same layout with every single item in the exact same place.
Food Lion has started to segment their stores to cater to the local demographic, you can go in two different stores in the same town and see subtle differences. In my store for instance it is a more affluent area, so we have lots of international foods, gourmet and organics, but go across town to the store with lots of Hispanic and elderly shoppers and you will see lots of hispanic foods, and a bigger mix of affordable items, that store isn't required to carry the high end items like we are, we have a huge section of olive oils and gourmet oils, and they carry the basics.
I agree about Kroger, the stores in the affluent suburb of Cary are pretty much exactly the same as the more modest, blue collar towns like Garner which makes no sense, since they have very different demographics.
__________________ MAC
Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them you are a mile away and you have their shoes!
They purchased our Fred Meyer and I haven't been in one of the stores since. Not that Kroger had anything to do with it. Just found the discount stores and they are terrific.
I guess I am stuck with this being my only option. They have the largest chain and the union will keep all others out. There are smaller mom and pop type stores and some franchise type things like IGA and Foodland but they have even less than Kroger. And Walmart is pretty much the same nationwide.
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