Grocery shopping (& Consumer Reports)

Cloud · 07-02-2007, 07:59 AM

carbon footprint, remember?

You just can't get your needs met by one store, I don't think.

I'm very lucky to have a good, natural foods grocery 5 miles from my home. It's the only one in El Paso. I go there for bulk foods, natural foods, hormone free beef and chicken, Apricot Ale, decent yogurt, etc.

I go to the mainstream, high-end grocery store, Albertson's, for convenience, fresh produce, and selection.

I go to Wal-Mart for everything, and they have the lowest prices--but not too often because I don't like crowds.

Occasionally I will go to Sams Club, but I don't generally buy perishables there. I'm a single person with limited storage.

jinx · 07-02-2007, 05:33 PM

My closest grocery store is a little country market with higher prices but better quality than the walmart. It's also twice as far but still my first choice (I don't mind walmart produce so much, but the meat doesnt even look real, plus its up to 12% solution. Um, wtf?)

Personally, I would definitely drive 15 minutes rather than buy packaged produced - although I stopped driving to Whole Foods becuase it was just too damn far.

I treat myself to Wegmans when we need goat cheese, buffalo yogurt, and other wildly exotic things

my little market doesn't carry - but its a 1/2 hr away.

I still don't get the clockwise thing.... I'm a perimeter shopper as it is, I dont see why it would matter which direction I went.

07-02-2007, 07:59 AM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	carbon footprint, remember? You just can't get your needs met by one store, I don't think. I'm very lucky to have a good, natural foods grocery 5 miles from my home. It's the only one in El Paso. I go there for bulk foods, natural foods, hormone free beef and chicken, Apricot Ale, decent yogurt, etc. I go to the mainstream, high-end grocery store, Albertson's, for convenience, fresh produce, and selection. I go to Wal-Mart for everything, and they have the lowest prices--but not too often because I don't like crowds. Occasionally I will go to Sams Club, but I don't generally buy perishables there. I'm a single person with limited storage. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

07-02-2007, 05:33 PM	#2
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	My closest grocery store is a little country market with higher prices but better quality than the walmart. It's also twice as far but still my first choice (I don't mind walmart produce so much, but the meat doesnt even look real, plus its up to 12% solution. Um, wtf?) Personally, I would definitely drive 15 minutes rather than buy packaged produced - although I stopped driving to Whole Foods becuase it was just too damn far. I treat myself to Wegmans when we need goat cheese, buffalo yogurt, and other wildly exotic things my little market doesn't carry - but its a 1/2 hr away. I still don't get the clockwise thing.... I'm a perimeter shopper as it is, I dont see why it would matter which direction I went. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

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