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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stores stock based on what people buy.

Where I live, there's a MOMs and a Giant.  Guess who does better business?  Giant.

Why?  MOMs is expensive.  Their produce especially.  And they have actually less variety in produce than Giant.  And honestly, they stock just as many processed foods.  They just market them as healthy.

[b]I find Wegmans to be too much like Whole Foods.  Everyone tells me they are "cheaper than Giant or Safeway," but that hasn't been my experience at all.  I also don't believe they're any healthier.  They seem to have just as much high calorie, high fat items.  Again, they're just marketed differently.   I also think that Wegmans tries to do too many things.  They almost remind me of those super Walmarts, with all kinds of different sections.  Of course, they're more upscale.  [/b]

I've never tried Aldi.  I do like Trader Joe's, but they don't meet all of my grocery needs, so a trip there always means a trip to another grocery store to get the things they don't have.  But I do feel like I get a lot for the money I spend at Trader Joe's.

Well over a decade ago, I used to live near a little tiny independent grocery store.  That was actually my favorite.  They had everything I needed, reasonably priced.  They didn't have all the bells and whistles, but my shopping experience was always fast, pleasant, and reasonably priced.[/quote]

10:33 here.

Again, I mostly buy store brand for staples and Wegmans is so much cheaper than Giant/Safeway.  For example, 15 oz canned veggies are 49 cents at Wegmans.  Giant has them between 79 to 99 cents.  Last month I got 28 oz cans of TuttoRosso whole tomatoes on sale for 99 cents (iirc regular price is 1.39).  I've always wanted to try them but would never buy them from Giant because they're around 1.99 their.  Wegman's brand pasta is 79 cents; Giants is usually 99 cents.  Milk at Wegman's was around 3.39.  I could go on and on.  I also love the way they package their meat so that each piece in a pack is indvidually shrink wrapped.  I can chuck it wholesale into the freezer and cut off as much I need as I go.

Aldi is owned by the same company as Trader Joe's but I'm not sure if there's a lot of overlap.  They're selection is a lot smaller, but in my experience it's a good bargain.  They also have seasonal things that are there until they sell out.  It's also very no frills: they've always been a bring your own bag store, and you have to rent carts for a quarter.

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