A longtime Reading shopper drives fifteen minutes out of her way to Weis Markets rather than deal with Aldi, certain the discount grocer won’t lift a finger if something in her cart goes wrong. She’s wrong. Aldi’s written policies say otherwise, and Pennsylvania shoppers over 60 are among the least likely to ever put them…
A first-time WinCo shopper loads their cart with 40 pounds of rice and beans from the bulk bins, rolls up to the register, and reaches for a credit card that isn’t going anywhere. WinCo has run registers this way for years. It’s the flip side of an employee-owned company that pours card-fee savings straight back…
Florida runs roughly 915 Publix stores, and every deli counter inside them works off the same set of unwritten rules. Regulars know they drill. As for tourists and new residents? Not so much, but they’ll get there. These are the mistakes that mark you as new to Florida. 1. Not Saying “Dressed” A single word…
Independent researchers ranked Food Lion’s MVP Rewards the best grocery loyalty program in the country in 2020, ahead of every other supermarket chain in the survey. Food Lion earned its reputation as North Carolina’s own hometown grocer fair and square, born in Salisbury back in 1957. But even a chain with glowing reviews writes some…
A free card that knocks cents off gas sounds like the easiest money in Minnesota. Hy-Vee’s Fuel Saver + Perks card can trim a family’s gas bill when a shopper uses it right. But get it wrong on a program that’s far from flawless, and Hy-Vee keeps that discount instead of your tank. These are…
Kroger rings up more than 11 million customers a day across its stores. Georgians are among them, but all too many leave perks unclaimed. These are the perks every Georgia Kroger shopper should be using. 1. Trade Points for Groceries Kroger turns every dollar a shopper spends into a Point, called a Fuel Point, until…
A Publix cooler in Key West stocks the same carton of milk as a Publix on the mainland. The Key West shopper pays more for it. Publix has never published a store-by-store price list, and no outside tracker ranks its registers against each other. But Florida’s cost-of-living researchers track something else: How far a grocery…
Wegmans is building its first store in the Pittsburgh area, more than three decades after it opened its first Pennsylvania store in Erie. That’s a lot of new Pennsylvanians about to discover a shopping habit longtime regulars already have down cold. These are the Wegmans deals people build their whole week around. 1. Wegmans’ Hot…
Kroger’s meat counter has been pricing about 25% higher than Walmart’s for years. That gap just became the company’s problem to fix. Kroger’s new chief executive took the job this year with one blunt line about the company’s roughly two dozen grocery banners: The basket price has to come down. These are the changes Ohio…
Joe V’s Smart Shop prices run as much as $2.89 lower than the same item at H-E-B. Texans have been driving out of their way for that gap since 2010. But no grocery store, discount or not, gets everything right. These are the Joe V’s Smart Shop mistakes we think wipe out a Texas shopper’s…
