What supermarkets do you have in your area?

In my city, we have:
Aldi
Publix (2)
Save A Lot
Walmart
Winn Dixie (2)

I generally, prefer to shop at Publix for the best shopping experience. The stores are modern and clean, although I prefer the newer one which is the one near my house. The stores are usually pretty busy too. However, they do tend to have the highest prices, far higher than Walmart. They have a great deli and make some delicious sandwiches and fried chicken. The bakery is nice too. But Publix generally knows how to run a store and run it well, so you usually get the same experience at any location.

I have walked into Save A Lot once or twice, but wasn’t all that impressed with it, and didn’t buy anything. It doesn’t ever seem to have more than a few customers at the one here.

Aldi I have shopped at a few times, some of the prices were good, but some were higher than I expected, or just average. It was very clean though, it seemed like some of the customers there are rather snooty, and it felt like everyone was sort of in a big rush compared to other stores. Aldi to me, seems a bit like Walmart grocery section, but with less selection and a bit of an attitude atmosphere.

Winn Dixie around here is just hit or miss. The one nearest my house I don’t like to shop at, although it seems to stay fairly busy. It’s just a depressing experience to shop there for me as it’s gotten quite run down over the years. The floors in parts of the store are completely worn out and the refrigeration is pretty sad looking. When that store was a Sweetbay and Kash N Karry during the early and late 2000s, it was very nice. It was nice when it was first Winn Dixie, but they let it get run down.

The other Winn Dixie here, which I have posted pictures of lighting on here, is a much nicer looking store. I also really like the retro round vents that it has.

The location they have in the next town is immaculate and even has self checkouts, it’s a very nice store. But of course I’m not driving way out there unless I’m in the area.

Walmart is just okay. It’s a lot cleaner since the remodel last year, but checking out is a bit of a pain. Usually I just go through a regular line if I can, but it’s just always busy. I don’t go there to buy groceries, unless I’m on that side of town. But they do have much lower prices and I do kind their chocolate milk better than any other store here, and it’s cheapest.

So yeah generally my shopping is usually;
Publix for bogos or sales, frozen, bakery, sometimes deli sandwiches
Winn Dixie for bogos or sales, some produce or bakery
Walmart for frozen food, milk and other general items.

I wish we had more choices for regular grocery stores than Publix or Winn Dixie. Years ago we had Albertsons, Sweetbay/Kash N Karry and Food Lion, which were all very nice stores but somehow didn’t make it in Florida. I especially liked Sweetbay.

I think overall though I’ll continue to do most of my shopping at Publix and Walmart. It would be nice if another retailer like Kroger or something would come here with physical stores, but I just don’t think anybody can compete well with Publix, which is now far too big and wealthy to get any leverage over.

I notice in other states you have stores like Wegmans, Kroger, Safeway, Giant, ACME but we don’t have those here, and Kroger only offers delivery but not physical stores.

I don’t know how Publix does in other states where there is more competition because I’ve noticed they’ve expanding into a lot of new states lately.

At Kiryat Ata:
Yesh Baschuna and Victory at Zevulun Street. There are others, but I don't remember their names.

At my area:

Kroger
Publix
Walmart
Target

Member only superstore:

Sam's Club
Costco

Aldi snooty? Damn. It's the lowest of the lowest class supermarket here. Everything presented in the boxes it got shipped in to save cost, on quiet moments only one person manning a register and 1 stocking shelves in the entire supermarket. Everything's very cheap, no name brand stuff.

I got Vomar, Aldi, Lidl (aldi's biggest competitor though a bit more upmarket), Albert Heijn and Dekamarkt within 15 minutes of cycling. Albert Heijn is closest and has the biggest selection, but also is one of the most expensive super markets here.

The big benefot of Aldi and Lidl is that they don't play music in stores. I hate that so much.

Oh, yeah We also have Aldi and Lidi (a wee further from my area) as well.

Aldi snooty? Damn. It's the lowest of the lowest class supermarket here. Everything presented in the boxes it got shipped in to save cost, on quiet moments only one person manning a register and 1 stocking shelves in the entire supermarket. Everything's very cheap, no name brand stuff.

Aldi is kinda funny in that way. They’ve been here in my town since about 2007, but they were never something you heard a lot about until maybe the last 5 years or so.

But, now they’re kind of this chic thing with the younger generation, sort if how Target is, where people have this whole thing of calling it Tar-jay.

Whenever I go to Aldi, I see more vehicles like BMW, Mercedes, Cadillac, etc than I see at other places, and the people shopping there tend to be well dressed and affluent. It’s so strange, and I feel completely out of place shopping there. It’s as if I’m suddenly transported into some ritzy town on the Florida coast where all the millionaires live.

But yeah, Aldi seems to have really become this popular thing with the wealthy, well educated set for whatever reason in the last several years, both younger and older ones, that probably won’t even set foot in a Walmart.

Aldi is also on a huge expansion kick here lateky. They want to open some 800 stores in the next few years. They’ve also bought out Winn Dixie and Harvey’s and are converting a lot of Winn Dixie stores over to the Aldi format, and subletting the res of the bldg.

I have mixed feelings about that, because I hate to see an old company die that way (Winn Dixie’s 100th anniversary is this year), but they’ve had lots of problems as a company, been though at least two bankruptcies, and to be honest, probably wouldn’t have survived long term.

I am curious what Aldi plans to do with the stores that they don’t convert, because there have been signs that they intend for Winn Dixie to continue operating in some form on its own. But, on the other hand Aldi believes it’s low service, small staff model is the only way, so for them to keep a full service store running I don’t understand.

It would be perfect if they do keep Winn Dixie and Harvey’s running as a subsidiary and replace the management at top with more interested people, and invest into the stores what they should have all along, as we don’t need Publix running along completely unchecked with any competition. And in my mind, Aldi and Walmart isn’t direct competition for Publix.

The big ones we've got are Coles, Woolworths and Aldi. Target here is a shop which sells clothes, toys and other random stuff, no food. Same with Kmart.

 Around here , Aldi is about 1 step above the food pantry...Lots of no-name stuff bought by people who can't afford anything else .

@Baked bagel 11: I’m shocked you still have Kmart, sometime this year the last like five remaining US stores will close permanently.

Kmart is ever growing here! I believe they even bought their main competitor, target. Target was going out of business here and now they both have the same home brand.

Most of the main chain stores here are owned by the 3 large Canadian grocers, not counting American stores like Wal-Mart or smaller regional chains.

Anyway:
National Chains:

Loblaw Companies Limited:
Loblaws
No Frills
Valu-Mart
Superstore
Wholesale Club
Your Independent Grocer (not to be confused with actual small independent grocers)
T&T

Sobeys:
Sobeys
Fresh Co.
Farm Boy
Longos

Metro:
Metro
Food Basics
Adonis

Other smaller regional chains:
Galleria
H-Mart
Yummy Market
Summerhill Market
Rowe Farms
Pusateri's
Eataly

In terms of general merchandise stores, only Wal-Mart and Costco sells groceries here. Target went defunct almost 10 years ago, Zellers even longer before. I think Canadian Tire tried selling groceries in a couple of stores in the late 2000s but only sell snacks now.

These are mine:

• Fred Meyer (Kroger)
• Safeway
• Albertson's
• Target
• Walmart
• Costco
• WinCo Foods
• Grocery Outlet Bargain Market
• Trader Joe's
• QFC (Kroger)
• Amazon Fresh
• Whole Foods
• Thriftway
• H-Mart

In the uk we have

ASDA
SAINSBURYS
ALDI
LIDL
MAKRO
BOOKER
COSTCO
B&M
THE RANGE
HOME BARGAINS
ICELAND (mostly frozen foods)
CO - OP
TESCO


Mini supermarkets
BEST ONE
COSTCUTTER
FAMILY SHOPPER
HAPPY SHOPPER
Loads of others
NISA LOCAL 

It's a short list where I live.

Co-op Market (1 store)
Costco (1 store)
Fred Meyer (2 stores)
Safeway (3 stores)
Walmart (1 store)

Two military bases each have their own commissaries, along with a BX/PX.

The Co-op building was originally built in the 60s as the "Foodland Shopping Circle" (it's round).  It was later run by Carr's and was sold off when Carr's merged with Safeway in 1999.  The new store didn't even make it a year, and the building sat mostly vacant until the Co-op opened up inside.

The Costco building was originally built as a PASE.  They were bought out by Sam's Club, so it was converted to a Sam's Club, which closed in January of 2018.  Costco took over the building and converted it over the course of 10 months before reopening it as a Costco.

Fred Meyer built their first store in 1978.  It had building materials, sporting goods, electronics and apparel, but its grocery section was limited to dry goods only.  In 1991, they opened a store on the west side of town, which for years was the largest in the chain (currently #2).  The original "north" store was remodeled in 1996 to be a Fred Meyer Marketplace, which was primarily a grocery store with a small home and electronics department, and no apparel.  A new full-sized "east" store opened in 2004 to replace the original store.  The old building currently houses a medical supply store, an Aarons, an REI, and sometimes a Spirit Halloween.

There used to be a Kmart, which opened in a new building in 1993.  It was remodeled into a Big K, and later into a Kmart Supercenter, and closed after only 10 years of operation in 2003.

One Safeway opened in 1977 to anchor a new shopping center.  It replaced an old Safeway store that was downtown, possibly had been a "marina style" store.  It had been expanded, but most of its remodels involve new lights and paint, while I'm told many of the mechanicals originate from when the store is built, contributing to high operating and maintenance costs.

The West side Safeway was originally built in the 70s, and a shopping center later grew from it.  Its last major remodel was in 1991.  By the 2000s the shopping center was pretty much dead, and was demolished in 2007, leaving the original Safeway.  A new Safeway was built where the far anchor of the shopping center used to be, which opened in 2009.  The old one was demolished.  A roadway expansion, gas station, and Arby's now sit on its old footprint.  I remember a very greened out mercury Perimaligher lighting it's loading dock.

Walmart built a new store, which opened in 2004.  It was built as a standard Walmart, but the building had provisions for expansion into a Supercenter, which it was later expanded into.

There used to be a local SuperValu (originally Market Basket) chain that had 3 stores.  Two of them closed in 1998.  The remaining one was briefly converted to Carr's and became a Safeway after the merger.

Going back even further, there used to be a Piggly Wiggly downtown.

Oh I should put the history of the stores here too.

Publix opened its original store in 1962. It was finally remodeled and expanded in the late 1990s. Then in 2016 it was demolished and replaced with a new store that expanded again a bit.

Aldi was built in 2007 and expanded in the late 2010s.

Winn Dixie opened its first store in the old downtown area probably in the 1940s. It was replaced by a new downtown store in the 1970s. That store closed about 2000 and sat empty for years before Save A Lot built a store in it maybe a decade ago.

Winn Dixie opened a second store in 1983. It was remodeled in 2008 and again in 2022, and a liquor store added then.

Albertsons opened in the late 1990s, but when they left Florida, Publix closed their old 1980s store in the next town and opened a store in the old Albertsons in 2008. It was remodeled around 2018.

Kash N Karry opened in 1985 or so I think, it was expanded and remodeled about 2000, then convert to Sweetbay branch in 2004. Winn Dixie bought that store when Sweetbay/Ahold Delhaize left Florida in 2014. Winn Dixie did a minor remodel there in 2017, but it wasn’t very thorough.

Walmart was opened a small store in the early 1980s but relocated to other end of town in a new store in early 1990s. Then became a super center in late 1990s and remodeled in 2008 and last year.

Food Lion was built in early 1990s, then changed to “Save N Pak” then closed in about 2000. Some of their stores converted to Kash N Karry branch when Food Lion left Florida but that one didn’t as it was too close by. It sat vacant and then turned into a school in 2007.