Comments on: Walmart grocery a sign of unwise expansion with niche competition like Winco?

By: Colby

Colby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:16:12 +0000

We always do our “big grocery shopping” trip at WinCo, every month, in South Hill. In addition to that, one month we will go to the Franz Bakery outlet, get 2 months worth of bread to freeze, the next month we go to Costco and stock up on some of the bulk stuff. So we alternate those two each month. I do go to Walmart for some stuff, but not near as much now that Winco is in the area. Then we also head up to the Fresh Farm Produce in Buckley (we live in Bonney Lake), for much of our produce. Seems like a lot of running around, but when you consolidate your trips, you really do save.
WinCo definately gets my business, and I don’t really mind bagging my groceries.

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By: FranciscoIV

FranciscoIV — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:01:44 +0000

Sigh… I remember Fred Myers…. Here in Miami Fla we Have Super Walmart and Super Target and Costco and BJ’s (which I like). Plus Publix, which is a Florida grocery store, sorta like Safeway and Winn-Dixie, which is a pure South Grocery store… Lastly we have a uniquely Miami family owned chain called Sedano’s, caters to the 1.5 million plus latin folks… Very cool going in there and smelling the smells, like nothing you get in any other chain store… Of course you also need to know a bit of Spanish to negotiate the check out lane…

By: Lestat

Lestat — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:21:27 +0000

We do a lot of grocery at Walmart except for produce. The produce there is ‘plastic’ like. There are 2 other grocery chains nearby (Pick N Save, and Copps). So we go where there are ‘falling prices’. We noticed the price difference mostly with the birth of our daughter. Diapers and formula can be quite pricey.

Some of the Walmart branded foods ‘Best Value’, are just as good. There are some things we have to go name brand on though. Like Heinz ketchup!

By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:20:24 +0000

My wife absolutely loves Target. I like their Icee’s best, though. Funny how I seem to zero in on certain items at certain stores.

By: orangecrush

orangecrush — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:11:52 +0000

I do all (100%) of my grocery shopping at Winco. We have other warehouse stores like pac-n-save and Foodmax, but like you said, Winco doesn’t have the “warehouse feel” as the other stores.

Also, on certain items, I have found that Target has some great sales on items like cereals (big in my household) and soft drinks. Plus I have noticed that Target stores in my area are really expanding their grocery departments. What I buy at Target is sale priced items which I have found to be very competitive if not better than Wal-Mart.