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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You do understand why MOMs and organic markets generally carry less produce, right? It's because they tend to not carry things that are no in season or produced locally. So yes, Giant has plenty of produce grown in Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, etc. And organic produce tends to not look as "nice" as genetically engineered produce that is waxed and polished before coming off the crate weeks ago.

But I do agree that all of these places stock plenty of processed crap.

Serious question - what exactly is being locally grown in Dec, Jan and Feb?

11:29 here. yeah, I don't think MOMs only stocks local stuff. I think their focus is more on organic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You do understand why MOMs and organic markets generally carry less produce, right? It's because they tend to not carry things that are no in season or produced locally. So yes, Giant has plenty of produce grown in Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, etc. And organic produce tends to not look as "nice" as genetically engineered produce that is waxed and polished before coming off the crate weeks ago.

But I do agree that all of these places stock plenty of processed crap.

No, I'm not talking about MOMs not stocking more exotic, out-of-season produce. They don't stock much in the way of regular, in-season produce, as in, every time I go in there, there's only a little left in the produce categories they do stock. And most of what they have there is either clearly rotting or has mold.

I said nothing about how the produce looks. I know well all of the arguments about genetically engineered and local and organic and whatever. I don't need my produce to look waxed and shiny, but I do prefer that it not be rotting. I've purchased bags of carrots at MOMs several times, only to get home and find when I open them that the carrots are moldy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You do understand why MOMs and organic markets generally carry less produce, right? It's because they tend to not carry things that are no in season or produced locally. So yes, Giant has plenty of produce grown in Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, etc. And organic produce tends to not look as "nice" as genetically engineered produce that is waxed and polished before coming off the crate weeks ago.

But I do agree that all of these places stock plenty of processed crap.

Serious question - what exactly is being locally grown in Dec, Jan and Feb?

Anonymous wrote: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.

You do understand why MOMs and organic markets generally carry less produce, right? It's because they tend to not carry things that are no in season or produced locally. So yes, Giant has plenty of produce grown in Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, etc. And organic produce tends to not look as "nice" as genetically engineered produce that is waxed and polished before coming off the crate weeks ago.

But I do agree that all of these places stock plenty of processed crap.

Vote with your feet then.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Okay. Don't shop there.

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.

In fairness to OP, there are a few really sucky giants. Like all of them in DC. But then again every Safeway in this area has sucked for decades, and Harris Titter is just an overpriced Gian. So....what is OPs point?

More community gardens would be great.

Giant / Safeway quality depends on the store. The quality is not consistent from one store to the next. I have gone to great Safeways and icky Safeways and I've been to great Giants and icky Giants. It is naive to think that if your local Giant is awful that all Giants are awful.
That is my PSA.

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.

Detroit is the apocalypse. makes sense to plant, plant, plant

Safeway sucks and this is why, Obvious Safeway Social Media Person.

I buy a lot of store brand for my staples and unless there's a sale, Giant is always cheaper in my experience.

I will not buy meat at Safeway. It goes bad after a day in the fridge at home. The seafood I've never tried, it always looks like shit that sat for three days at the fishmongers.

Barring the new Safeway on Arlington Road, every Safeway I've been in feels smaller and dirtier. Maybe it's just the lighting, but it feels a bit claustrophic to me.

Honestly though, the only reason I shop at Giant is because Shoppers, Aldi, and Wegmans are too far away. Anymore I make a monthly trip to Wegmans or Aldi's up in Germantown to stock up on meat and staples. If I run out, then I go to Giant.

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.

The store sells highly process expensive food that is low quality, and not cheap.
At least SFW is cheap.
Giant has transfat laden, rotten food with erratic supply.
Would prefer a WF, SFW, HTeeter, MOMs, Fresh Market at every Giant location.