Interesting!

Here in South Florida, we have Publix, Walmart, Winn Dixie and Whole
Foods.

We find Publix to be the best across the board but their produce
prices are outrageous.

Walmart is good for national brands, especially canned goods.
Produce is high (red potatos at $1.19/pound recently.) The meat is
awful, probably because most of their meat is Select grade. I suspect
some of it is even Standard grade. Generally lesser-grade foods.

Winn Dixie generally poorly stocked and many foods are not carried.
Procuce very high except for the occasional sale. Meats are not bad,
mostly choice and resonably priced. Lots of "buy one, get one free"
sales.

BJ's club is pretty good and you don't have to buy huge quantities.

Costco is, well, COSTCO. Very nice meat department with good
selections of choice grade beef at good prices. You can't buy just one
steak but you can buy 4 at a nice price.

We also have a number of small, independent produce shops which are
usually lower priced than the chain stores.

DaveinFLL






On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:29:49 -0400, (Fred/Libby
Barclay) wrote:

>
>I received my Consumer Reports magazine yesterday, and it's all about
>grocery shopping and how to save.
>
>They surveyed 32,599 people and the rankings are based on service,
>perishables (quality of meat and produce), price and cleanliness.
>
>They have 59 stores listed, with the highest overall score being 87 out
>of 100, and the lowest being 64.
>
>The top ten~
>
>1. Wegmans
>2. Trader Joe's
>3. Publix
>4. Raley's
>5. Harris-Teeter
>6. Fareway
>7. Costco
>8. Whole Foods
>9. Market Basket
>
>The bottom ten~
>
>49. Pick 'n Save
>50. Dominick's
>51. Tops Markets
>52. Pathmark
>53. Food Lion
>54. Giant
>55. Winn-Dixie
>56. Walmart Supercenter
>57. Shaw's
>58. A&P
>59. Waldbaum's
>
>I thought it was interesting how low Walmart scored. People must shop
>there even though they hate it!
>
>Libby