Which Grocery Store Do You Shop At?

Dekalb Farmers Market & Kroger

woodmans, and because of the pricesss

followed by target- because i like archer farms brand and market pantry.

and hyvee because its closeest, but more expensive.

Shop Rite! They have their own (healthier and cheaper) versions of a lot of famous brands!

Vons (safeway), Kroger, or Trader Joe's, mostly. Farmer's Markets when i can get there. If i need gf food i might have to go to a specialty store or Whole Foods- but they are too expensive for everyday shopping!

Oh, and I miss HEB! I am jealous of all you Texans!

In the summmer & fall, most of our food comes from our garden & CSA share. The CSA costs us $300 or so for 22 weeks starting in June. During the high season, we preserve and save food for the winter & early spring.

edit: we also do a lot of pick your own (PYO) farms in season to get the best prices. Every year we pick about 23-25lbs of blueberries for $1.25/lb. Compared to market value, this is almost a steal! And it only takes us a couple hours, then we bring them home and freeze them. I do the math to determine how many we need for a year for whatever the produce we're picking and then we pick that much. It took me a couple years to figure it all out, but now I've got it down. Using the blueberry example, we've still got about 3lbs of blueberries from last year's picking and here it is, about 3 weeks out from picking season.

we also save all the seeds from our produce so we can grow them the following year. We don't have a lot of garden space, but we try to make the most of what space we have. And there are only two of us, so it makes it easier for us, I think, than maybe for larger families. /edit

It sounds like a lot of work, but it really isn't, since we freeze most of it. When I think about how much work I would have to do to raise the money to buy groceries out of season, it seems like a better value to take an hour or two each week to save for leaner times.

When we have to shop, we use the bulk bins at our local health food markets, or Whole Foods if necessary. We sometimes even have to go to Stop n Shop, but that's about as suburban as I can muster.

We used to get eggs from our CSA share, too, but I just can't justify the $5/doz price on them. We still buy local eggs, but try to source them from other folk.

We used to get our milk from a delivery service, too, but they require spending at least $10 to make a delivery and most of the foods they offer are not things we would eat and therefore, I can't find $10 worth of things to buy. I really did like that service when we used it, though, because we return the bottles for the milk. We stopped buying eggs from them because they pack them in styrofoam and that's landfill destined, so if they switch to recycleable plastic containers, I'd probably go with them again. That reminds me to check

Aldi.

Coborn's.

Target.

That is all.

I shop at Zehr's mainly. Their produce is usually quite nice and their seafood selection isn't so bad either.
In the spring/summer I shop at Jacob Market which is a local farmer's market about a 15 minute walk from my home thats open on Saturdays.

Giant Eagle now that I am living in Columbus. Meijer when I move back to Cincinnati. I work for Kroger, but I'll go out of my way not to shop there, because, there is no way I want to recycle my money back into that company!

Walmart if I need everything
Kroger for the sales
Farmers Market for produce

My big shopping trip is split between cash and carry, (like a small scale costco, but way better!) and trader joe's. Produce and dairy from the farmers market.
If I just need one or two ingredients I go to safeway, since it is closest.

The cash n carry I can buy huge amounts of good quality ingredients for super low prices, so I get all my meats there, as well as non perishables.
Trader joe's just has a great selection and great prices, and I find their food to be a higher quality than most grocery stores.

Quality Foods
Save-on Foods
Safeway (sometimes)
We also have a bulk organics store called Ecossentials - I probably shop there the most out of anywhere

Wal Mart or Homeland - because they're the only stores in town. Beef comes from the slaughter house once a year. Tried our farmers market and it's a joke.

Whole Foods
Metro (Canada)
Walmart

Weekly:

Shop Rite (traditional grocery store--pretty good prices)
A couple of small independent natural food stores
The Meat Market (local milk and bread for my kids, plus turkey for the cats)
Fresh Market

Monthly or so:

Whole Foods
Asian and Indian markets
Trader Joe's

Oops, I forgot to say why I shop where I do. My husband and I are mostly vegan, and I like buying as much as I can without packaging at all. I bring my own cloth bags for produce and items in bulk bins. I try to minimize the amount of waste produced by our home. My kids are vegetarian, and I buy them local milk in recyclable glass bottles. I also buy the cats meat at the Meat Market, which as a vegan, makes me feel a bit like going to the dark side, but everyone is super nice and I like that I can look up the farm where the turkeys were raised. About once a month, I go 30 minutes out of my way to a city with specialty markets. I stock up on non-perishables and as much fresh produce as I can buy without going overboard and ending up throwing some out.

Smiths and Costco They are both priced good and have really good products