I just recently came across an article saying Giant Eagle is lowering prices on over 200 items. I honestly can't afford to shop Giant Eagle because they're so expensive.
I think we have some decent competition. We have Kroger, Giant Eagle, Aldi, Costco, Walmart, Marc's... and maybe a couple of others that aren't as popular. But they're still around. So I'd say there's enough competition to where if one store lowers prices, we have several options of where we can go for the lower costs.
We have so-so Walmart stores and a couple of really nice ones. The one closest to me closed down a few months ago. Not missing anything there. That place was a piece of poo poo. Not kept up well and a lot of theft. But the one in Grove City and the one in Canal Winchester are both really nice. The Grove City location is my favorite.
We have so-so Walmart stores and a couple of really nice ones. The one closest to me closed down a few months ago. Not missing anything there. That place was a piece of poo poo. Not kept up well and a lot of theft. But the one in Grove City and the one in Canal Winchester are both really nice. The Grove City location is my favorite.
As for Aldi, I'll go there for cheap items, like canned goods, boxed items (like rice, mac & cheese, etc), bread and bagged snacks and I enjoy checking out their frozen foods section. Oh, and I get my Easter ham from Aldi every year because I can get a nice sized bone-in ham for around $11 or $12. The same ham at Kroger is around $34. So major difference there.
But you're right, I go to Aldi only for some items, but have to hit a major grocery store for the rest. My cousin does the same thing. She goes to Aldi first to get what she can, but then hits up Kroger or Meijer (another major chain I forgot to mention in my previous post) for everything else.
So yeah, add Meijer to my list of major chains above. I'm hoping that the reduction in prices at Giant Eagle causes the rest of the stores to do the same thing.
Can I just say that I love Walmart's bakery? Check out this beautiful box of donuts I grabbed from there one day. And yeah, okay, so one is missing
Yep, that's how the Kroger is on our end of town. We're on the south side of Columbus. There are panhandlers on just about every corner and our Kroger (which I haven't actually shopped at for a few years now) is full of security that asks everyone to show receipts at the door on their way out. And you can only go in and out of one door. They shut the other entrance down. Not too awful long ago, a man was beaten to death there. Literally to death. It was very sad.
When I first moved here, MN, 30 + years ago, meat loaf was served in fancy restaurants. Thank G-d times have changed.
That kind of happened when we went to walmart together in the biggest city close to us one night when our electric was out. I had had enough sitting in candle light w/o electric so we got in the truck and went into town. They all had electricity and it was 8 or 9 at night. The place felt like a dangerous place in the inner city of a large metropolitan city. The doors going in had ladders and scaffolding construction site, red tape lining the entrance and into the store. The floors had debris, the few people going around were small gangs of young people dressed like hip hop some with head pieces lots of make up and some of that black makeup (lips). We were scrutinized by the loud gangs turning around looking at us as they walked/skipped by. It wasn't friendly. We checked out in a regular short line and everyone was uncomfortable, especially us, no one talking out loud, only whispers. Was it us or them? It could have been us, unadorned old people.
