America's 10 Favorite Grocery Stores

[left-of-center2012]

Marketforce polled nearly 13,000 Americans in March, asking them to rate their most recent grocery store experience and the likelihood that they would recommend that store to others.
The stores were then given a percentage score. The top 10:

Publix: 77%
Wegmans: 77%
Trader Joe's: 76%
H-E-B: 69%
Aldi: 68%
Harris Teeter: 66%
Hy-Vee: 65%
Costco: 65%
WinCo Foods: 62%
Whole Foods: 61%

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http://www.marketforce.com/2017-market-research-on-americas-favorite-grocery-chains

[femmocrat]

1. We have none of those here.

I used to like Kroger's when we had one here.

[katmondoo]

4. We have Trader Joe's

and I don't like them. They do not have a butcher so I don't know where their meat is packaged, my daughter got sick from a frozen Chicken Pot Pie. way too much Frozen foods and lots of wine.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I find Trader Joe's tiny, like the size of a Walgreen's.

And you have to like their brand, or else you're SOOL. Because they only have their brand.

[csziggy]

18. Trader Joe is the wine and cheese bar of grocery stores

At least the tiny one they have here is. I've read raves about their baked goods, but the loaf of bread I bought not long after the store opened here was one of the worst loaves of bread I have ever had.

Even when my husband still worked in a store front across the parking lot from the Trader Joe's we didn't bother trying to shop there.

[Paladin]

2. I'm a 3rd-generation H-E-B patron. Great stores. (nt)

[procon]

3. In my town, only Costco and WinCo are available.

I rarely go to Costco any more because their packaging has gone from just a large amount to prepper madness. I can't use 24 cans of tomato paste before the expiry date, and I can't even lift up a 50lb drum of laundry detergent, so they get on my go-to list maybe a couple of times a year. I like WinCo, but they are too far away to be convenient for routine shopping.

I usually go to a big mexican supermarket from a regional chain that has a huge produce section, a butcher shop, fresh fish and seafood, a deli with wonderful cheeses, and a cafe with delicious Mexican cuisine to eat in or take out. Its bright and clean, the workers are helpful and will even explain how to cook the more unusual foods they stock.

[CherokeeDem]

5. Publix!!! Yes....

Love Publix.... don't live near one now but I miss it!

Hate Kroger.....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. If you live in Florida, it's an embarassment of riches in terms of Publix in your area.

You can literally find one every 2-3 miles apart. And eventually you'll find "your Publix".

Which sucks if you move. I'm moving about 3-4 miles away from my old house and yet somehow that places me closer to two other Publix than "my Publix", neither of them I like as much as "my Publix."

So I might have to go out of my way to continue to shop at "my Publix" but hey, it's still possible.

Florida people problems.

[CherokeeDem]

9. I lived in Miami and Naples for fifteen years....

I totally understand the concept of "my Publix!" I am considering moving back south soon and one of my criteria... must have a tide report and a Publix.... how messed up is that!

I shopped at Wegman's... great store and I know the HEB stores are great but nothing is like Publix... nothing...

Happy shopping!

[LeftInTX]

14. My sister found a $10 bill at a Tallahasee Publix

She turned it in and it belonged to the governor's wife.
This was in 1965. She was 8 years old. She has been interested in politics ever since.

[csziggy]

17. My only major complaint about Publix is that every store is different

In layout and sometimes in what they carry. There are three Publix that are "convenient" to us - the one ten miles away on the way to the Post Office, the one twelve miles away near where my husband used to work that is one of the biggest ones in the chain, and the closest which is only five miles away but is smaller.

My husband prefers the one near where he worked since he knows the layout and with it being larger than the other two it generally has everything we might possibly want. I still have my prescriptions at their pharmacy but that may change since I am going on Medicare soon and have to shop for my prescription plan.

I hate that I cannot write a shopping list in the order logical to the layout of the store without knowing which Publix we will be going to. When my husband would shop on the way home, I could write the list in the order he'd walk through which saved time and reduced the chance things would be forgotten. But one of the other stores is nearly backwards in it's layout: bakery, deli, produce, wine (yes you HAVE to go through the wine section to get past the produce), etc. while the others are meat, dairy, produce, bakery, etc.

[Scurrilous]

13. I live on Publix subs.

[CherokeeDem]

15. oh.. my....

Those subs are great!!!!

[padfun]

6. In Northern Cal, I like Raleys

They aren't the cheapest, but their produce is the best. Plus I like their Deli.

[Adsos Letter]

12. We do much of our shopping at Safeway.

But I agree with you about the Raleys deli; I prefer it over Safeway's.
We also do a bunch of our shopping at Costco and Trader Joe's.

Whole Foods occasionally for specialty items.

[brooklynite]

10. This is NOT a survey of "favorite grocery stores"

Respondents were not asked who their favorite store was; they were asked which store they had gone to last, and how it rated. On that basis, I would have said Trader Joe's, but I'd rate Fairway more highly; I just didn't happen to go there because it's further away.

[Skittles]

11. Kroger is my favorite

[womanofthehills]

16. I love Whole Foods

In Albuquerque, we have two Whole Food stores plus Trader Joe's and Costco.

Whole foods has a beyond yummy salad bar and hot food bar with so much food to choose from - mostly all organic.

I travel 180 miles round trip every few weeks to buy my groceries at Whole Foods and Vitamin Cottage in Albuquerque. My small town's grocery store closed a year ago, so we had a "Go Fund Me" to reopen our grocery store and raised over $140,000 and it should be opening soon. It's not even a co-op. Two women have worked really hard to raise the money and the town responded - so the women will own the store. It will have lots of organic and fresh local food and a small food bar too. I love the idea of local town people owning the grocery store - not some big corporation. It should be successful as it's about 90 miles roundtrip to any other grocery store not counting the Dollar Store that moved in.