Doug Kanter > wrote:
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> ...

> >> Don't usually shop there - I don't buy pre-brined meat.
> >
> > She was talking about butter, not meat.

> Yeah, but (projecting my attitude here) maybe if he considers that meat to
> be nasty, it creates a bad impression of the store as a whole. Here, that's
> actually accurate. The local "real" supermarket throws away the kind of
> lettuce that Wal Mart is taking out of boxes to put on display. Disgusting.

That's part of it, but mainly it's that I don't really want to
run around to several different supermarkets for all my groceries.

My local Super Wal-Mart has pretty substandard meat and produce,
and the checkout lines are always very long. I actually won't
buy ANY groceries there unless I'm already picking up some piece
of cheap crap from the "conventional Wal-Mart" part of the store.

There's a "Neighborhood Market" Wal-Mart grocery store closer to
my house, which I'll actually patronize if I need some single
item or two other than meat. The produce is even pretty much
okay.

For normal grocery shopping I stick to Albertson's (force of
habit, non-brined poultry) and Central Market (excellent wine,
beer, seafood, meat and produce selections). Two stops is
really quite enough, though.

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