Question for the US?

Question

What are your stores called where you do your weekly food shopping? here in the UK we have Sainsburys, Tescos, Morrisons, Asda. What are your stores called?

Here is a link to have a look at one of our main supermarkets. www.sainsburys.co.uk.

A silly question I know but I'm sat at work bored silly!!!

Answer 1

Safeway and Albertsons are pretty much national.  Then you have regional stores like Smiths, Fred Meyer, Yokes, etc.

Answer 2

This varies too much from region to region for me to give you a good answer, but here goes.

Here at college, I have several options. LaVerde's Supermarket is on campus and expensive. Shaw's and Star Market and CostCo and Trader Joe's are all good places for a huge variety of relatively cheap food. (I don't know what English food stores look like, but an American supermarket is generally a large building with one large section full of fruits and vegetables, a large section for bread and pastries, a large section for meat, a large section for boxed foods sorted by category, a large Frozen Foods section, a smaller Specialty Foods section for things like basmati rice and mung beans and things only a small percentage of the population would be interested in, and a large dairy section.)

I specify this because I've heard that Germany, for example, tends to have many smaller specialty shops - a dairy, a bakery, a butcher's, and people visit each one when they shop for food. Those are also available but many folks just go to supermarkets unless they want something particularly unusual.

Back in California, I could shop at Vons or Albertson's or WinCo or CostCo or WalMart or FoodCo or Trader Joe's or Rite Aid or Long's Drugs. (Long's Drugs is called that because it is a general store with both food and other household supplies in addition to a pharmacist in the back. You'd call it a chemist - you know, a person you go to when the doctor prescribes a pill for your lower back pain, and they take the doctor's note and give you a bottle of fifty pills and you pay ten or twenty dollars for it because your insurance pays the rest.)

Hmm. That's not even counting the cheap stores like the Dollar Tree (good food, but not high-class) and 99 Cents Only Store (again, good food but not high class) or the corner stores like Seven Eleven where you can get petrol for your car and buy bread and canned soup and luncheon meat and a soda pop and a gallon of milk and candy in addition to dumb magazines and cigarettes and alchohol in all colors of the rainbow. (If you're over 21, that is.)

Answer 3

there are different ones in different states, in florida we have winn-dixie, publix, costco, sams club, whole foods, the fresh market.... in other states they have places called safeway, trader joes, stater brothers, krogers, albertsons, and some walmarts and targets also sell grocerys.

Answer 4

depends where you are in the US lol.  i'm in Colorado, and for the most part we have Super Walmarts, King Soopers, Safeways and Albertsons...

Answer 5

i live in CANADA! YA!

Answer 6

In Kentucky we have Kroger, Meijers, and Food Lion. When I lived in Florida we had Winn Dixie, and Publix.