We have 3 grocery stores in our town: Safeway, Overwaitea and an independent called Askews.
We like to support the independent when we can.
Askews:
What I like: they have the 7th Generation diapers we like.
They support local producers (fruit, etc)
Their staff turnover is low and they are friendly.
Prices are okay.
What I don't like: cramped aisles (they will be moving to a larger store, which can't come soon enough).
It's dingy.
The parking isn't great.
We usually shop at Safeway.
What I don't like about Safeway: the staff turnover - always training someone.
The staff can be downright rude (not all, but some)
Prices are higher on certain things compared to other stores.
What I like: big aisles, big bright windows.
Good variety.
Handi wipes so I can wipe the yuk off of the shopping cart handle
Excellent parking
Overwaitea:
Bad all the way around. Some Overwaitea stores are new and modern. Ours is not.
The local health food store:
We also shop there for these very good crock pot mixes - all natural, extremely tasty, made in the Okanagan. And we like their dried apple rings. I guess I could make those if we had a dryer.......
Farmers Market:
Demilles - we shop there for really good natural apple juice and their homemade bread. The downside to Demilles is that it is a few kilometres out of town and is completely out of the way.
Today at Safeway, I was watching my prices (because sometimes I don't :(
I saved a total of $4.60 by using my Safeway card.
A 2 litre jug of skim milk was 2.79 (regularly 2.99)
Chedder Cheese was 6.49 which I thought was a good deal - normally $8.18 for the block I bought, which was .457 of a kilogram (I hate metric). I was really tempted to buy the pre-shredded stuff as it would make dinner prep easier tonight, but it was over $8.50 for that. A bit much for the price of convenience.
Chicken breasts were $7.40 (.448 of a kilogram). Chicken is expensive when you buy it deboned and de-skined. But that seems to be one area where the convenience factor outweighs the price for us. I'm not about to debone chicken.
What are your favourite grocery stores? The good, the bad....
3 comments:
Meijer for cheap and convenient.
Aldi, bare bones, not as convenient, not as great a selection, but REALLY cheap.
Kroger and Giant Eagle are expensive.
Meijer staff knows me and are friendly, so I don't pay more to go to K or GE.
Safeway and local produce stores like Quality Greens are my first choice but they are not so convenient to me in my rural neighbourhood.
So shopping trips to the 'big cities' are always a treat and full of fun new surprises!
I do most of my shopping at Vons which is a big chain store. Their prices are the best for most items. I'll go to Target for some items, like cleaning supplies, and diapers. Target also really is not a grocery store. I love the food at Trader Joes. They have great organic and natural foods. Their prices are good too but the parking at the one closest to me is awful. It's enough to make me not go. A Fresh and Easy market just opened up nearby and I haven't tried it yet. It looks interesting, kinda a cross between Trader Joes and Vons.
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