search/destroy: ZOOPAH markets

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I love supermarkets. Love to walk around checking out every can, bottle and box (NOT to the amusement of who has accompanied me). So uh do you shop at supermarkets or are you just 'ardcore indie shopping freakoids? :-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

shop till ya drop aka neue replies.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy them all, but particularly ASDA as it has vastly inferior stuff.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

search: supermarkets in furren countries -- they usually have all sorts of mad things you don't get at home.

destroy: checkout queues.

― rener (rener), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like them much (sorry nathalie!!) I like the food halls in old department stores, and little places. More & more recently, I see the amount of actual choice offered in yer supermarket getting narrower & narrower, as in they keep more lines, but they are all minor variations on the same thing, like, if you go the cheese counter, they have all these "different" cheeses, but on examination, lots of them are minor variations on cheddar. That annoys me. Also, people pushing their trolleys REALLY SLOWLY winds me up as well!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I do like ALDI though. They have nice stuff.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Asda's organic, free range meat is excellent Ed. When was the last time you shopped there?

They are great, especially as they pay my wages.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sunday. I stopped by on my way home. Stuff I normally get from the others which is adequate was lower quality at ASDA, eg fresh pasta, cheese, veg.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Marks & Sparks' food section count as a supermarket?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

REALLY DON'T GET ME STARTED.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

We had one of their organic chickens and it was excellent, tasted like proper chicken should. Mind you I have found that the quality of other stuff varies across their stores, the one in Leyton though is excellent, much better than the one at Walthamstow.

Is this the thread to talk about the marvelousness of Costco?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Well the Rotherham one must be one of the more pikey ones.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I would say that it is. It is Rotherham after all!

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

technically its just past the sign that says sheffield, but it is only just past the sign.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like German supermarkets, and do the indie thing here. In Austria, however, supermarkets are much nicer, and so are of course being bought out by large German chains which are ruining them.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I go in Sainsbuy's and Iceland once every week for my stuff. I buy fruit elsewhere, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I love local ZOOPA markets. I'm not surprised to be able to buy anything in Manhattan but Suburban Chicago had some good ones.

Chicagoans, are you a Dominick's person or a Jewel person? I prefer Dominick's.

Oh and Franklin's where you can buy cheap spices by the pound (no crysknife needed).

My hometown thinks it's so "all that" with its nouveau Sunset Foods now. Sunset is good but it's no Treasure Island.

For a brief shining moment there was a Treasure Island in Lake Forest where you could get anything from coconut milk in three degrees of fattyness to Wensleydale cheese. Then it became a Byerly's which is good and has good bagels but not quite, now it's a Dominick's. Wait. I'm confused. The Byerly's was in Highland Park. Oh well, a friendly man at the Mets game told me Safeway wants to acquire Dominicks and get rid of the unions. Good luck! (Dominick's is a family-owned Chicagoland supermarket chain) Good old Dominick's.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

From that other thread: I don't go to the supermarket anymore. I buy everything at (a) the Lebanese and Persian markets [cheese, breads, grains, tea, sauces, juice, etc.] (b) the Latino grocer [for vegetables, eggs, sometimes meat] (c) the all-nite White Hen Pantry [for milk only, it's cheap] (d) the liquor store. Sometimes I trek down to Trader Joe's for wine and frozen dinners and sundry other things. I eat out. A lot.

Felicity are you aware of the protracted battle between Dominick's and their employees?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Safeway bought Dom's already, innit? All I know is that Dominicks is trying to break up the unions to lower labor costs. In Chicago oh HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA, good one, that's rich.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Dominicks when I go home. I mean it really feels all Chicagoy and mobbed-up when I go in there. This aisle 10 items or less or we break your leg, got it?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: WEGMAN'S!!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: My local D'Agostino. Too expensive. And it smells like olives.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Safeway's owned Dominick's for a while now, I think.

For some reason, I prefer Dominick's to Jewel, partially because my nearest Jewel (Andersonville) feels scuzzy to me, but also because Jewel is where my parents always shopped when I was a kid and so it reminds me too much of the suburbs. Dominick's has always felt a little classier. But I know people in Chicago that say the exact opposite, so who knows.

I love Trader Joe's. You can't do a full shop there, since they don't have a standard produce section -- but it's the absolute best for stocking up on cheap frozen meals for lunch. (Roasted veggie burritos! Woo-hoo!) Also, ya gotta love how they label their Mexican food "Trader Jose's," Italian "Trader Giotto's," etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay I keep forgetting that we're neighbors! The Andersonville Jewel is indeed scuzzy--so is the Edgewater Dominick's though (flies buzzing around the fruit at all times).

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Carlito the Weasel may have been a flashy dresser (that is, before he disappeared) but he was no "fruit."

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"disappeared"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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