Where's the best place to go grocery shopping? Consumer Reports asked 24,203 readers to rate 52 grocery store chains on price, quality of meat and produce, service, and cleanliness. Then they ranked the winning stores in their May issue.
The biggest surprise is good news for the little guys: A lot of smaller, regional chains rank higher than bigger chains like Target and Whole Foods! Trader Joe's and Costco are the only two big, national brands in the top 10.
Are you surprised that the smaller chains do so well compared to the big guys? I bet local stores do a better job of catering to our needs -- and I wonder if competing against the big guys makes them work harder, too. By the way, the top-ranking chain, Wegmans, is also a favorite of Alec Baldwin. He did a commercial for them earlier this year. As for me, I do some of my grocery shopping at that food coop. I'd love to see how it would rank in Consumer Report's survey -- ha!
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The top 10 stores from #10 to #1 are: Stater Bros., Hy-Vee, Raley's, Market Basket, Harris Teeter, Costco, Fareway Stores, Publix, Trader Joe's, and Wegmans.
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Is your favorite supermarket in the top list?
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I saw this on the news this morning. Too bad we don't have any of the stores around us. Wegman's is the closest and over an hour away.
We moved from Rochester, NY to the South a year ago, and I still miss Wegmans every single time I go shopping. <3 Wegmans.
Woo, Harris Teeter! We don't have them here, but I shop there whenever I visit my family in North Carolina, great quality and selection and the stores are clean and well organized. Love them. Here at home I shop at Kroger usually, it's the closest to my house.
Publix is the best grocery store ever! I miss it like crazy!
I heard on the radio this morning that WalMart came in dead last on the ratings, but it's still BY FAR, the most frequented grocery establishment on the planet. Due entirely to their prices!