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Buy freezer meat from local suppliers, beef, pork, lamb, fish. All easy here. Yard bird you can raise your own, difficult to buy locally. Farmer's markets here are excellent, even have winter vegetables. Fruit in season. Organic bread. I don't eat much grain or nuts, but those are available as well.
 
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Where does Publix fit in? I'm thinking Giant Eagle, but no idea really.

Oh yeah, and Winn Dixie was just bought by Aldi's down here. I'm starting to see this weird brand pop up there; Know & Love.
 
Pablo said:
https://grocerystory.coop/who-owns-your-grocery-store
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...ry-store-owners-map-kroger-albertsons-merger/
https://komonews.com/news/local/alb...y-chain-for-failing-to-secure-deal-12-11-2024

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Buy freezer meat from local suppliers, beef, pork, lamb, fish. All easy here. Yard bird you can raise your own, difficult to buy locally. Farmer's markets here are excellent, even have winter vegetables. Fruit in season. Organic bread. I don't eat much grain or nuts, but those are available as well.
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I'm fairly sure Krogers owns sprouts, or that's what I've read. At least the Albertsons Safeway merger is off the table, yet as of this morning Albertsons is now suing Krogers corp for "Not doing more to make it work." If they merged that would be essentially a monopoly.
 
Thankful for Wal Mart. Without Wal Mart we would not have any meaningful competition against mega grocers Albertsons and Kroger. Of note, Alberstons has huge debt payments every month, causing a mandatory 10-15% higher prices on a macro basis over Kroger. Scary how a organization like Albertsons, which not so long was a very well-run organization, could be so deep in debt.
 
GON said:
Thankful for Wal Mart. Without Wal Mart we would not have any meaningful competition against mega grocers Albertsons and Kroger. Of note, Alberstons has huge debt payments every month, causing a mandatory 10-15% higher prices on a macro basis over Kroger. Scary how a organization like Albertsons, which not so long was a very well-run organization, could be so deep in debt.
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10 years ago I did almost all of my shopping at the Mart (with the exception of meat, I always have and still do shop sales like the 5.99/lb rib roasts at Food Lion this week, which will fill my freezers with ribeyes for a year) but it seems that since the 2020 thing I've been able to give up on said big blue giant and just shop the BOGO's at the other chains and come out better. Pre 2020, WM often beat BOGO prices. It was great when WM would price match local chain BOGO's and just ring stuff up at half of WM's price. They were never technically supposed to, but they did.

Buy a cheap vac sealer and shop sales. It's the only way to buy meat.

I suppose I'm lucky, I have access to 3 major chains, plus Aldi (which I'm not a fan of, but will buy pork bellies when they run them at 2.99) and LIDL. LIDL ran crazy sales when they first moved into this market, now, not so much.
 
mr_boring said:
10 years ago I did almost all of my shopping at the Mart (with the exception of meat, I always have and still do shop sales like the 5.99/lb rib roasts at Food Lion this week, which will fill my freezers with ribeyes for a year) but it seems that since the 2020 thing I've been able to give up on said big blue giant and just shop the BOGO's at the other chains and come out better. Pre 2020, WM often beat BOGO prices. It was great when WM would price match local chain BOGO's and just ring stuff up at half of WM's price. They were never technically supposed to, but they did.

Buy a cheap vac sealer and shop sales. It's the only way to buy meat.

I suppose I'm lucky, I have access to 3 major chains, plus Aldi (which I'm not a fan of, but will buy pork bellies when they run them at 2.99) and LIDL. LIDL ran crazy sales when they first moved into this market, now, not so much.
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I'm glad you found a way to make grocery prices work for you without Wal Mart. I am not wanting to invest my time and energy in BOGO, electronic coupons, etc. Others, like you do very well at the game. I'd rather not play the game. As we get older, we often are not as sharp, the game gets harder to play, and we often end up thinking we got the deal, but actually didn't; instead, we paid a premium for the grocery item.
 
SEG group used to have a very large footprint here - now there isn't a SEG store for a hundred miles. Publix moved in and bought a bunch of the old stores and re-vamped them.

MDI was the meat distributor for SEG (which included Winn Dixie and BI-LO at the time. They had the best (BAR NONE) meats of all the locals and always ran the best sales. MDI also distributes to Lowes Foods (which sells the exact same stuff as SEG, labels are identical) who sells meat at a heckuva premium and some IGA stores (who sell the same meat for about 1/3 less)

Lowes has about 150 locations (including the IGA stores)
 
mr_boring said:
SEG group used to have a very large footprint here - now there isn't a SEG store for a hundred miles. Publix moved in and bought a bunch of the old stores and re-vamped them.

MDI was the meat distributor for SEG (which included Winn Dixie and BI-LO at the time. They had the best (BAR NONE) meats of all the locals and always ran the best sales. MDI also distributes to Lowes Foods (which sells the exact same stuff as SEG, labels are identical) who sells meat at a heckuva premium and some IGA stores (who sell the same meat for about 1/3 less)

Lowes has about 150 locations (including the IGA stores)
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When we lived in South Carolina we shopped at Lowes, Lidl, and Food Lion.

Lowes was a new and very fancy store- with prices to match. Lidl was awesome, some food was outstanding quality, a few food items of poor quality. Food Lion was a dirty store, and we did everything we could to not shop at Food Lion.
 
GON said:
When we lived in South Carolina we shopped at Lowes, Lidl, and Food Lion.

Lowes was a new and very fancy store- with prices to match. Lidl was awesome, some food was outstanding quality, a few food items of poor quality. Food Lion was a dirty store, and we did everything we could to not shop at Food Lion.
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there are some terrible Food Lions for sure. There are 5 in Rock Hill, 3 great to good, 2 lousy. 4 others within spitting distance of where I work, 3 of them are terrible.
 
I shop at Lidl and Food Lion. I looked up Food Lion thinking they were a local chain. Turns out they’re owned by a company in the Netherlands who also own Hannafords, Giant and Stop & Shop grocery chains here in the US.

Here’s a map I found online on dominant grocery store chains in each state.

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GON said:
When we lived in South Carolina we shopped at Lowes, Lidl, and Food Lion.

Lowes was a new and very fancy store- with prices to match. Lidl was awesome, some food was outstanding quality, a few food items of poor quality. Food Lion was a dirty store, and we did everything we could to not shop at Food Lion.
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In my part of South Carolina I don't set foot in any of those.

Lowes is apparently for the rich folks as you mentioned.
I think I would rather eat dirt than shop at food lion.
There is only one lidl in the area. We don't eat much packaged food so it wasn't for me, but the bakery stuff was actually pretty good.

I prefer "coastal produce". The owner and wife are there most days. They make a run to the South Carolina commercial farmers market daily I think. They also sell edisto shrimp, frozen Lumpia made by someone, and propane. The local Tienda is pretty good too if you like plantains, home-made tortilla's and black beans (I do)

Harris Teeter for everything else - which used to be awesome but keeps going downhill since Kroger bought them out.
 
There's no way that is true today. Jewel/Osco only has 20 locations in Illinois today, and Wal*Mart has 161 locations.

It states that the chart was from 2017. It was wrong in 2017 as well.

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mrsilv04 said:
There's no way that is true today. Jewel/Osco only has 20 locations in Illinois today, and Wal*Mart has 161 locations.

It states that the chart was from 2017. It was wrong in 2017 as well.

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I don't have time to search, but there has to be more than 20 in IL. There are 16 within 10 miles of my house according to their store locator.
 
We have one little local grocery store, locally owned and operated. Not branded (Three Forks Market, named for the confluence of 3 creeks nearby). Their main supplier is AWG (Associated Wholesale Grocers), which owns Best Choice generics. My wife is HR, shipping and receiving, and handles the marketing, in addition to being able to do just about every job in the store.

Good folks. We have a bigger town within 15 miles with WM, Publix, Kroger, Aldi. Haven't been to any of them in years, excepting very rare ventures to WM. But the little local store will order pretty much anything you want that they don't have, if they can get it, and we're keeping our $ local. They probably get a solid 20% of my wife's check back every week. Lol
 
Miss Publix, from FLA mostly, we have a Giant- expensive and a Weis- kinda expensive and Walmart within 5 miles of us. We also have Grocery Outlet as well as a local mom and pop store with these 2 getting most of our money regularly and then Walmart. Weis has better meat sales and I will stock up there when possible.
 
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