Americans and Canadians, where do you do your grocery shopping?

[Iloko]

When I used to live in Illinois...all of these:

Walmart(ultra cheap prices)
Target(slightly pricier than Walmart, but more upscale shopping experience)
Jewel Osco(reasonable prices; close to the house)
Dominick's(pricey, go here rarely)
Caputo's(reasonable prices; lots of foreign stuff)
Valli Produce(decent prices; their baked cookies are delicious)
Meijer(decent prices though a tad bit higher than the competition; nice shopping experience)
Sam's Club (when buying in bulk; and also for more of those rare items)

[Myanthropologies]

Really? Wow, ok. Where I live it's just like traditional Americana, not much non-traditional ethnic communities or food stores around. It's still pretty much like the old USA down here.

Well I live in the DC-Baltimore metro area, so it's very diverse here. Where i specifically live is full of white preps though. All i know about Louisiana is that there is an abandoned Six Flags park there that got totalled after Hurricane Katrina, which is very sad. Hopefully someone buys, revamps, and re-opens it one day.

[Isleño]

Aldi has great healthy and organic groceries for great prices, if you have one near you. Just make sure you have reusable bags with you if you go. They charge you for plastic bags.

What I miss about grocery stores is back in the day there was a bag boy that would bag your groceries and put them in your basket for you, you didn't have to do a thing. But those kind of stores are not as common these days as they once were.

[Sekarotuinen]

Aldi has great healthy and organic groceries for great prices, if you have one near you. Just make sure you have reusable bags with you if you go. They charge you for plastic bags.

No Aldis here, amd I dont buy Organic from large farms, it is literally worse for your body in every way. Artificial pesticides and farming practices are far safer nowadays than organic. For example you could drink your roundup original and survive than espresso.
I buy local above all else. I will honestly buy grass fed local non-halal meat before some factory made packaged "halal" labeled meat.

[Isleño]

Well I live in the DC-Baltimore metro area, so it's very diverse here. Where i specifically live is full of white preps though. All i know about Louisiana is that there is an abandoned Six Flags park there that got totalled after Hurricane Katrina, which is very sad. Hopefully someone buys, revamps, and re-opens it one day.

Yeah, Louisiana is still pretty much white and black. Other types of minority groups are so small here, they are like a drop in the bucket.

As for that theme park, yeah it was once a Six Flags theme park. It was once called "Jazzland". Now it's in ruins since Hurricane Katrina and it was used a few times in movies and tv series. Someone really should redevelop it. I miss riding all the rides. I've heard so many rumors of what was going to be done with it, but nothing yet. Sad. Lots has changed down here since Katrina.

[EL_BARBARO]

What I miss about grocery stores is back in the day there was a bag boy that would bag your groceries and put them in your basket for you, you didn't have to do a thing. But those kind of stores are not as common these days as they once were.

That has always been a distinctive american image in supermarkets, at least in the movies.

I've only seen this kind of attitude in here in Dani Supermarkets, in Granada and Malaga: the same cashier puts your items in a bag (they have a sort of machine that keeps the plastic bag open).

[Isleño]

That has always been a distinctive american image in supermarkets, at least in the movies.

I've only seen this kind of attitude in here in Dani Supermarkets, in Granada and Malaga: the same cashier puts your items in a bag (they have a sort of machine that keeps the plastic bag open).

Yes, it's very American. But it's dying out. It used to be every grocery store when I was young. Now it's harder to find. But there are still some small local stores that do it. Kinda like when my parents were young, when you would pull up to the gas station they would pump your gas, check your fluids in the motor and clean your windshield, all at the same time. It was like 3 or 4 guys would come out (the movie "Back to the future" showed an example of this). But these days, you pump your own gas and no one checks your fluids or cleans your windshield, if you don't do it yourself, it won't get done. The old USA was awesome.

[EL_BARBARO]

Yes, it's very American. But it's dying out. It used to be every grocery store when I was young. Now it's harder to find. But there are still some small local stores that do it. Kinda like when my parents were young, when you would pull up to the gas station they would pump your gas, check your fluids in the motor and clean your windshield, all at the same time. It was like 3 or 4 guys would come out (the movie "Back to the future" showed an example of this). But these days, you pump your own gas and no one checks your fluids or cleans your windshield, if you don't do it yourself, it won't get done. The old USA was awesome.

Yes, exactly as here already.

[Isleño]

Yes, exactly as here already.

It's like people in the US had more manners and cared more about people in the old days. Now everyone is just more selfish. Here in Louisiana, we have a tradition of giving something extra with a purchase, something free like a piece of candy, or like a snack or a little piece of cake only 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch square. It's called Lagniappe (lahn-yahp) Lagniappe is French spelling. It derives from the spanish (castellano) word la ñapa (Louisiana Isleños still say la ñapa when speaking spanish/castellano though). It means to give a little something extra or a little something free with your purchase. But even this is not as common as it was in my parents youth, when it came with everything you bought, every time you bought something.

[CrazyDaisy]

I used to shop at Safeway. But they stopped being available in Canada and got replaced by save on foods. I liked Safeway better. Now I just shop at some local chains that aren't on the poll.