ITT: God Tier Grocery Stores & Stories

does it have the favorite deli in america though?

what a horribly put together sandwich.

>thinking the south knows shit about delis

Delis are what the northeast does

This makes me pretty sad. Publix is fine, but compared to even walmart owned ASDA here in the UK, its inferior.
The fresh fruit/vegetable sections in the USA are really depressing, no wonder you guys are so fat.
The meat selection is not half so good, the cheese choice you have there make me want to cry. Do americans only buy fish at fish markets? Because your fish selections are awful too. And why the hell is smoked salmon so expensive there? Even in walmart it was a complete rip off price.
Your milks all taste like pool water, your chocolate is plastic, your eggs are from hell itself. Oh and your bread is shit too. Don't get me started on the lines at the checkouts, longer than in a goddamn airport and so fucking slow, takes about half an hour to get through them.

Near me I have an ASDA, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons,Sainsburys and a Lidl. They all blow the american supermarkets I have been to completely out of the water (I have been to walmart, winn dixie and publix).

The only positive things about american supermarkets is that they have huge avacados for cheaper than would be sold here, and you can buy chicken hearts/gizzards, which for some reason nowhere sells here in the UK.

And before anyone says about flyover problems, my american supermarket experiences were in Miami, so I would expect a coastal city to have reasonable supermarkets.

Niggers are everywhere, even in publix.

well i agree were arguing over shit vs shit because we live in corporate america

not much choices

but miami is the worst city you could have possibly visited

only 10% white in miami one of the most melting pot multi racial places in all of america

>miami
>white

pick one.

Most of the "whites" there are Cuban which are spics although they're usually pretty classy in comparison to their beaner counterparts.

I miss publix so much. Truly regret moving to jersey

>buy shit at commisary
>use self checkout for +60 items
>never have to tip random bagger orientals
>shit is so cash

>tipping baggers

What

>Implying any of the money belonged to whites in the first place.

Yeah at davis monthan you tip the baggers for bagging your shit and also taking it home. Apparently they are volunteers and dont get payed

This exactly.

Produce sections in American groceries stores are a fucking joke.

Half the stuff there aren't even edible.

That fucking figures and squares perfectly well with, muh 'murrican corporate freedom.

Here's a chance to buy food at a government contracted corporation where employees are totally fucked.

they stole the money from the natives

more of a logistics issue

this depends a LOT on the store in question. I've seen super-sad produce departments before--but mainly in small towns in flyover regions.

In even a moderately sized city you should expect a very good produce section. And if it's a store that caters mainly to immigrants then the selection will be even better. This can even play out between different stores in the same town.

Where I live we have a major chain that has 4 locations in the same city. One of them is like a "warehouse club" like Sam's or Costco. It has crappy produce. The one in the "poor side of town" (a lot of Mexican immigrants) has fucking amazing produce. The two in the "wealthy part of town" (college students and professionals) have good-but-not-amazing produce.

Hi-Vee is the best, and that's all there is to it

WinCo is GOAT in socal.

Now if they only would open up a few locations in OC, it'd be perfect.

Wut? There's very little difference between any UK store and an American store other than cultural preferences. Stick to your fish pie and I'll keep my non-shit beef

I would literally pay triple or quadruple I pay now for some apples or a steak if I never had to see a nigger ever again.

I know this feel. I always look at these aging fucking Asian ladies crowding a bench as they fuck around waiting to walk your bags 20 feet from the exit to your car and wonder why anyone would hire a vture when I have two perfectly working arms and legs. I do feel bad for the young female/male baggers though since they're likely some officer's kids looking for summer job pay.

damn that pic is the one on Harding in Miami. North Miami Beach. that brings back some feels. wasn't ready for this user.

Move to Antarctica then, asshole.

>implying Publix sends you a free 120 page cookbook four or five times a year for free if you shop there.

So mail-order it. Problem solved.

>Using wifey tier grocery store cookbooks
>almost 2017

True aye, there's no nigger scientists

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HEB best store ever. great fruit, great service, good light, warm.

This has a lot to do with the grocery store you're in and the location. Also in comparison to Europe America is pretty big so shipping things from California etc is a lot harder than getting stuff from Morocco or Italy.

The grocery stores in my home town can have shit produce sections but one always has good quality. I don't know why they're so shitty at it if the one can be good with it. Bread selection is poor I agree.

Also Wal-Mart is a shit excuse of a grocery store, of the ones in my city(there's 6 or 7 supermarkets) it definitely has the worst selection and the worst quality. I would rather not eat than buy there.

I can go into my grocery store and they have a butcher, a fishmonger, bakery, flower store, photography, small restaurant, deli, etc all combined into one facility so you can get all your food at one location.

Miami is also pretty tropical which makes it harder to cool things, it is also much more distant from where most food comes from(California/Mexico). They grow some fruit in Florida sure but not much beyond oranges and sugarcane with some corn and beef raised in the north

>there are people on here right now who don't shop in a building where The Wire was filmed

I work at publix
it's not nearly as nice to work there as it is to shop there

>employee owned
so how does that work anyway? loke, if I get hired, do I become and "owner" and get a dividend, or voting rights? or is it smoke and mirrors and a bunch of suits still own/run the show and I just think I need to give a shit because "we own it!"

I'd like to point out that this is not applicable if you live in a major city. The publix near me is very well staffed, but during peak times it's literally just too slammed with people to expect anything less than a 10 minute wait.

I just found out you can have a pub sub made from any meat in their deli section, not just what they have presliced.

Had a really nice aged salami and Muenster sub from them

>waaaa! muh daddy died so I'ma gonna make a time machine!
no really, he made a "time machine" but I think they cut off his funding and they had to turn it off

The "employee owned" thing is kind of a meme.

In order to qualify for Employee Benefits and stock options, you need to have worked at publix for a full year, and either work a total of 1000 hours in a year, or be a full time employee.

You're gonna have a better chance of fucking a unicorn before you'll get full time working at publix.

Then if you work under 1k hours you have your stock option purchasing ability revoked.

All our stock will go down roughly $1.25 starting january

I prefer Kroger just for the prices. The one I frequent is in a pretty rich part of town so it has a huge selection relative to some other, shittier suburbia Krogers I've shopped at before. Prices are easily half that of the Publix in the same area.

Of course I get my produce at the weekend farmers market if it's something that can be grown locally. Quality is always soooo much better on certain things (I'm looking at you, sad pale tomatoes and soapy fibrous carrots).

>or is it smoke and mirrors and a bunch of suits still own/run the show and I just think I need to give a shit because "we own it!"

pretty much this. Employee "owners" have almost no say in anything that happens in the company. Even more so since Mr. Jenkins (the late Cult-of-Personality and Former Owner of publix) died and his family left the board of directors.

In fact, within publix there's a bit of a riot going on. The new suits on the board decided to get rid of every full time/1k employee's quarterly bonus while raising their own and allowing managers to keep theirs. They provided no justification for it.

There's rumors that the Board is going to try and make publix publicly traded.

Same guy here

according to some of my long-term coworkers, Publix really /was/ an amazing place to work for, where all of management and even George Jenkins himself truly cared for his employees back when he was alive. As soon as he died, it started "chaging" (as they say it), and as soon as the surviving Jenkins left the company, it's only gotten worse.

>Kroger
when I was a kid there were all sorts of chain grochery stores in my area. IGA, Thriftway, and a couple others. Now? The Kroger superstore model ran every chain store out off. Walmart and Meijers stepped in. I usually shop at Meijers because I sometimes get off work at 3-4 am and none of the Krogers in my area stay open 24hrs anymore like Meijers.

>publicly traded
meaning gotta squeeze every penny out of those dividends or the share holders won't be happy.

I'm hoping it's just rumors.
At least until I can buy my shares.

Seems to be a major trend in grocery stores and America keeps letting their decent grocery stores get bought up by foreign super grocery stores.

Ukrops never got to be as big as Publix but it was a pretty major chain in VA and known for quality and the great employees. Great bakery. If you had more than a single bag of groceries or were over 60 years old an employee would escort you out to your car and unload your groceries for you. If the employee accepted a tip for unloading the groceries (I.e. doing their fucking job) they were warned and then fired.

The kids sold it as soon as their dad died to some foreign chain that started phasing out services as soon as they could. They immediately limited the car service to the elderly and soon made it so the elderly had to specifically ask. The foreign chain is now selling it again to some other foreign chain so a lot of the deals they had in place, like continuing to buy baked goods from the Ukrops bakery, are probably all going to go too.

>The kids sold it as soon as their dad died
I'm surprised Sam Waltons kids didn't do this, but they may as well have as the reamining one have nothing to do with running the company other than their voting rights. I never even saw a Walmart until I was in the Army. Now they have them in my home town.

My nigga