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Publix subs are the reason I will never leave the Southeast no matter how high the sea level gets.
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My in-laws have never suggested we try them when we're with them in FL. What do you like about them?
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Feb 19, 2018 10:22
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Beachcomber posted:My in-laws have never suggested we try them when we're with them in FL. What do you like about them? For what you pay at Subway for a 90% bread sandwich full of rubber meat and sad vegetables you can get an amazing fresh everything Publix sub.
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Feb 19, 2018 16:04
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Publix subs are the reason I will never leave the Southeast no matter how high the sea level gets. You say that because you've never had a Wegmans Sub.
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Feb 19, 2018 17:49
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If I only need staples I go to Aldi. Though, I should really pay attention to some of the prices because I'm not sure how much of a deal some of their things are.
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Feb 19, 2018 17:58
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Alterian posted:You say that because you've never had a Wawa Sub.
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Feb 19, 2018 18:00
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I was wondering why there were 150 posts in this thread and of course its regional grocer talk where someone mentions their favorite chain and 4/5 of the other posters have never heard of them.
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Feb 19, 2018 18:12
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Xaris posted:Could be a ymmv thing, but here in the Bay Area, Whole Foods is pretty much the same price as Safeway. This is not meant to say that it's cheap, but Safeway is usually the only game in town and super expensive af for shittier quality at nearly same price as WF items, so I might as well shop at the latter and at least they have most checkouts manned instead of race-to-the-bottom employment approach of Safeway. The only difference is Safeway tends to run some slightly more coupon/promo price in which case yeah they are slightly cheaper but you can't rely on that all the time. Literally cannot read the word Safeway without posting about how much I loving hate them. Every Safeway I have been to, all of them, without fail, have run the numbers and figured out how to have exactly half as many people as they need on the resisters at any given time. Doesn't matter if it's 5 pm, 5 am, or anywhere in between, you will wait in line behind someone with a full cart in the express lane. Half the self checkouts will be down for no reason. Batteries are now kept behind the customer service counter and the person with the full cart in the express lane is gonna need em. The people working there have pretty uniformly been nice though. Like it is not their fault corporate wants to make getting out of Safeway as unpleasant as humanly possible.
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Feb 19, 2018 18:15
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Safeway in Canada was one of the few unionized grocery stores so my family would often go there growing up because of it. We all eventually stopped because it was poo poo. It was nearly twice as big as the one near our house yet seemed to have half the selection. They'd have 100 extra types of frozen TV dinners and every variety of white bread you could imagine but somehow not stock a bunch of the produce you were looking for. They also had twice as many tills but were about 4x as slow to process people. Having 1-2 people in front of you in the line would be the equivalent wait of having 6-8 people in front of you at the other place. The staff there were just excruciatingly slow. They got bought out and are no longer union and have entirely new staff and managers, but the last time I went in they were just as painfully slow. But I've found most suburban grocery stores are slow as gently caress as both the staff and customers are use to it.
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Feb 19, 2018 18:37
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quote:Literally cannot read the word Safeway without posting about how much I loving hate them. Every Safeway I have been to, all of them, without fail, have run the numbers and figured out how to have exactly half as many people as they need on the resisters at any given time. Doesn't matter if it's 5 pm, 5 am, or anywhere in between, you will wait in line behind someone with a full cart in the express lane. Half the self checkouts will be down for no reason. Batteries are now kept behind the customer service counter and the person with the full cart in the express lane is gonna need em. I like the Safeway in my town well enough, but I think that's largely because the other grocery store is a Mollie Stones, which is where you go if your eggs just weren't bougie before and you need a $7.99 price tag on them to feel alive. I'll deal with a line to avoid spending 2-3X the cost of everything on my groceries.
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Feb 19, 2018 18:48
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See, that's funny because Safeway in Seattle is where I go for normal things that Grocery Outlet either doesn't have or only has the worst version of.
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Feb 19, 2018 19:13
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Grocery Outlet is like a huge vending machine that always has different stuff. It’s all priced to move but you might not actually want what they have when you go in.
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Feb 19, 2018 19:14
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We used to have Safeway in the U.K. but it got bought out. (Or in my towns case, burn down) All our supermarkets/grocery stores are exactly the same as Safeway, with small variations making them slightly more upmarket or downmarket. The own brand stuff is also identical but for the label. It’s basically your worst nightmare of retail homogenisation.
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Feb 19, 2018 19:20
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Grocery Outlet is like a huge vending machine that always has different stuff. It’s all priced to move but you might not actually want what they have when you go in. Grocery Outlet is funny because you can't go there for something specific, it's all random stuff all the time. They have a surprisingly good beer selection but their gimmick seems to be to stock all of the previous quarter's seasonal beers and in guessing these cases must have been sitting out in the hot California sun for 4 months because even though they're much cheaper than getting the same varieties elsewhere, it often ends up being the nastiest, skunkiest bellywash. Theres a reason they're selling a 6 pack of Victoria for $3.99 and it's because the beer is essentially become the Sludge in the P trap of your kitchen sink at that point.
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Feb 19, 2018 19:47
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Domestic Amuse posted:I've found that Kroger's selection and customer service depends way too much on where they're located. At least Publix makes an effort to have a uniformly good experience no matter which one you shop at. I live in a college town and there are three Kroger within about 15 minutes of me. One is right behind some dorms and is called "Kroghetto" because it's small, dirty old and doesn't have a huge selection. Then there's the Kroger near the hospital called "Krogucci" because all the doctors and nurses shop there and it's got a huge cheese selection and a massive organic section, sushi, salad and lunch bars and a bigger selection over all. A lot more ethnic foods too. Then there's townie Kroger in the townie part of town that is somewhere in between the two, leaning closer to Kroghetto.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:02
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Stop and Shop? Stop and Shop.
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Feb 20, 2018 13:07
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https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/966464575192424454 Another 200 store closures by Toys R Us. There's talk it'll go from bankruptcy into administration at the end of the month due to not having the money to pay a loan. (not in this article)
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Feb 22, 2018 01:25
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I live in a college town and there are three Kroger within about 15 minutes of me. One is right behind some dorms and is called "Kroghetto" because it's small, dirty old and doesn't have a huge selection. It's at least partly an age thing; the newer your Kroger, the nicer it is. I live in the middle of nowhere, but when Kroger bought out one of the dying Winn Dixies, they renovated it and put in a sushi bar and dedicated cheese pavilion. Also, live music on weekends.
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Feb 22, 2018 01:31
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:It's at least partly an age thing; the newer your Kroger, the nicer it is. Grocery stores doing stuff like this is the weirdest drat thing, but I guess it all has to do with the previously discussed low margins and borderline insolvency chains run at.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:06
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You can pry my grocery store sushi out of my cold dead hands.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:34
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:It's at least partly an age thing; the newer your Kroger, the nicer it is. my kroger has those things plus a straight up bar in it
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Feb 22, 2018 03:27
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learnincurve posted:We used to have Safeway in the U.K. but it got bought out. (Or in my towns case, burn down) All our supermarkets/grocery stores are exactly the same as Safeway, with small variations making them slightly more upmarket or downmarket. The own brand stuff is also identical but for the label. It’s basically your worst nightmare of retail homogenisation. I liked Waitrose more than the others when we were in London, but that might be because it was on the same block so we could get fresh breakfast pastries, which aren't a thing in the US. Rent-A-Cop posted:Then your in-laws either hate you or are ignorant of one of the top 5 best things about Florida. The literally got Subway for themselves while we were there. My wife and I are a Jersey Mike's family. Alterian posted:You say that because you've never had a Wegmans Sub. In-laws are all from Rochester where they would shop at the flagship Wegmans, so that might be it.
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Feb 22, 2018 03:56
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:You can pry my grocery store sushi out of my cold dead hands. I don't have a grocery store nearby that sells sushi, but I do have like 3 sushi restaurants all within 3 miles of each other, and two chinese buffets that offer some sushi.
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Feb 23, 2018 02:08
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I can't think of one near me that doesn't have sushi. I can think of two with poke bars.
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Feb 23, 2018 02:11
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Freakazoid_ posted:I don't have a grocery store nearby that sells sushi, but I do have like 3 sushi restaurants all within 3 miles of each other, and two chinese buffets that offer some sushi. We have a Mexican restaurant that sells sushi. It is peak America.
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Feb 23, 2018 02:12
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Beachcomber posted:
The one in Pittsford? That one is pretty great. They are finally making their way to where I live in NC and I am excited. The bottom of this article lists all the grocery chains we have in this area. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article154006074.html
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Feb 23, 2018 13:16
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There was a Wegman's in the college town in New England where I went to graduate school. I remember it being quite expensive, but it was the only place locally where I could find all of the French and British foods that I miss from living in Europe.
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Feb 24, 2018 05:01
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/when-malls-saved-cities-from-capitalism/553610/ i lust for more mall death
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Feb 24, 2018 05:07
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Rated PG-34 posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/when-malls-saved-cities-from-capitalism/553610/ kind of a weird example because lenox mall is doing fine. it's one of two malls in the metro area directly adjacent to a subway station
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Feb 24, 2018 05:15
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I live in a college town and there are three Kroger within about 15 minutes of me. One is right behind some dorms and is called "Kroghetto" because it's small, dirty old and doesn't have a huge selection. I love it when people nickname their Krogers. https://atlanta.curbed.com/maps/a-definitive-mildly-wrong-map-of-atl-kroger-nicknames https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...84.4821852&z=11
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Feb 25, 2018 01:03
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i am harry posted:Uh yeah if you like pretending you're a racist old southern lady venturing out from her normal Piggly Wiggly stop. Market Basket is literally the shittiest grocery store in the country and just barely qualifies to be in the category. Kroger is what loving owns. It's weird someone can be so wrong about something Mb is love, mb is life MORE FOR YOUR DOLLAR
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Feb 25, 2018 04:34
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Domestic Amuse posted:I love it when people nickname their Krogers. i used to shop at murder kroger between 10pm-2am back between 2002-2006. it was a weird place. the redevelopment cannot remove the stain. viva "fancy murder kroger" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10P17XX5xz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHbziqRdNC8
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Feb 25, 2018 09:07
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Best grocery store I've very been to was the Carrefour in Tbilisi. Full service bar in one corner serving fine alcohol, all the carts had cup holders, get sloshed and buy groceries! 
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Feb 26, 2018 05:57
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The Slack Lagoon posted:MORE FOR YOUR DOLLAR Is literally a lie. Beachcomber posted:I liked Waitrose more than the others when we were in London, but that might be because it was on the same block so we could get fresh breakfast pastries, which aren't a thing in the US. Sainsbury's is the best of the heap. Waitrose is nice if you like paying a tenner for four meringues. Same goes for M&S but w some whipped cream pressed between them. 
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Feb 26, 2018 06:00
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Rime posted:Best grocery store I've very been to was the Carrefour in Tbilisi. Full service bar in one corner serving fine alcohol, all the carts had cup holders, get sloshed and buy groceries! How big is that chain? I remember going to one in Lille (France)
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Feb 26, 2018 06:02
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actionjackson posted:How big is that chain? I remember going to one in Lille (France) All across Europe, Asia and Africa, and a few South American locations.
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Feb 26, 2018 06:08
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fishmech posted:All across Europe, Asia and Africa, and a few South American locations.
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Feb 26, 2018 08:41
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Alterian posted:The one in Pittsford? That one is pretty great. They are finally making their way to where I live in NC and I am excited. The bottom of this article lists all the grocery chains we have in this area. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article154006074.html Yep! My wife actually grew up in the same neighborhood where Danny Wegman lived/lives and they would see him at Christmas parties and stuff. I wish they'd hop coasts and just clown all the CA grocery stores.
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Feb 26, 2018 08:53
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i am harry posted:Is literally a lie. Uhh things that are played from loudspeakers every 5 minutes can't be lies, otherwise they wouldn't be played from loudspeakers every 5 minutes
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Magic Hate Ball posted:See, that's funny because Safeway in Seattle is where I go for normal things that Grocery Outlet either doesn't have or only has the worst version of. The one in Sodo gets all of the offstock from the downtown whole foods. Pretty kickin shut sometimes.
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