Giant food needs to go

[Anonymous]

I shop at Giant a fair amount. Like every other store, they sell both processed and non-processed food. They have an organic section for dry goods, and then in produce you can find organic and non-organic for many items. Same for meat (it's usually in a section next to the usual meat section). I shopped there today and bought organic ground turkey, organic apples, and organic yams (DD is starting solids).

[Anonymous]

I Initially read this thread and rolled me eyes then just yesterday I bought some bad hamburger meat from a Giant. Go figure. I will be going back tomorrow to get a refund.

[Anonymous]

OP here.
I actually never shop at Giant or Safeway unless I really can't reach another store. I would truly be fine with Shoppers and Whole Foods. Odd combo, but it works for us. I only buy packaged food at shoppers and some veggies (cheap) then get all my dairy and meat at WF.
To me, Giant and Safeway take up valuable retail space that could be used for a Wegmans, WF, Shoppers, or MOMs. There are only Giants and Safeways close to our house.

[Anonymous]

Giant is totally fine for the vast majority of items. You all are SUCH yuppie suckers.

[Anonymous]

Giant in McLean has valet parking and is slightly better than other giants I've been too. I still don't buy much from there. However, the whole foods Tyson's sucks really bad.

[Anonymous]

Harris Teeter is not any better - I'm forever stymied at people who think it's a "less junk" option than Giant or Safeway - they have exactly the same stuff. Harris Teeter is also owned by Piggly Wiggly.

[Anonymous]

Giant sells a huge amount of food. If you don't want processed food..don't buy it. The store makes its decisions on what to sell based on sales so you can't fault them for selling chips and soda. Giant is my only convenient option and I think I feed my family pretty well (with supplements from other places when time allows)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.
I actually never shop at Giant or Safeway unless I really can't reach another store. I would truly be fine with Shoppers and Whole Foods. Odd combo, but it works for us. I only buy packaged food at shoppers and some veggies (cheap) then get all my dairy and meat at WF.
To me, Giant and Safeway take up valuable retail space that could be used for a Wegmans, WF, Shoppers, or MOMs. There are only Giants and Safeways close to our house.

So go right ahead and buy out one of their leases and open your own market. Source all of the food, hire and retain quality people, pay them well, and hope people will pay more for your (very similar) product.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harris Teeter is not any better - I'm forever stymied at people who think it's a "less junk" option than Giant or Safeway - they have exactly the same stuff. Harris Teeter is also owned by Piggly Wiggly.

Don't you mean Kroger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't shop at Giant. They treat their employees like crap, worse than at any other chain. Talk to them privately and you'll never want to shop there again. We shop at Safeway, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, but will not set foot in a Giant.

Giant employees at least have a union where they can take their grievances, unlike Whole Foods & Trader Joes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't shop at Giant. They treat their employees like crap, worse than at any other chain. Talk to them privately and you'll never want to shop there again. We shop at Safeway, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, but will not set foot in a Giant.

Giant employees at least have a union where they can take their grievances, unlike Whole Foods & Trader Joes.

Giant employees have it worlds better than WhoFo or TJ's in terms of pay and job security. But they do act like their world stinks, whereas Whole Foods and TJ's employees are some of the happiest people around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't shop at Giant. They treat their employees like crap, worse than at any other chain. Talk to them privately and you'll never want to shop there again. We shop at Safeway, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, but will not set foot in a Giant.

Giant employees at least have a union where they can take their grievances, unlike Whole Foods & Trader Joes.

Giant employees have it worlds better than WhoFo or TJ's in terms of pay and job security. But they do act like their world stinks, whereas Whole Foods and TJ's employees are some of the happiest people around.

But I am the customer buying the food. I don't work there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about we focus the energy on educating people about good food choices and increase the community gardens by 50 percent each year. Reclaim vacant land in the city and plant, plant, plant. Detroit is doing just that and other cities are too.

Right, just don't plant on reclaimed land where old munitions were buried...

Seems like that is a problem for DC's Parkview and not Detroit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about we focus the energy on educating people about good food choices and increase the community gardens by 50 percent each year. Reclaim vacant land in the city and plant, plant, plant. Detroit is doing just that and other cities are too.

God, you give liberals a bad name. First of all, where is all this vacant space in DC? Second of all, people struggling with two jobs and kids DON'T HAVE TIME TO GARDEN. Third of all, poor people struggling with jobs and kids don't need just education, they need $$ and time to eat well. None of this is going to be solved by freakin' community gardens.

Stop the name calling and grow up. If you take the time to look around the city, you will see vacant space. There's a nice community garden across from WARL. AND, that garden is tended by poor people. What the hell would you know about struggling people with two jobs and kids anyway? Last time I checked, those were the ones with the damn gardens full of collard greens and tomatoes.

[Anonymous]

Mom's is great. They always have plenty of produce at the location where we shop (Rockville). We buy almost everything there and then supplement with Trader Joes.