Which grocery store is your favorite to shop at?

Shop Rite is doing just fine. All of the store closures except one you mentioned are in urban or impoverished areas, a trend that unfortunately continues across the wider retail industry. That alone says nothing of their financial health.

New Jersey without ShopRite is...unthinkable.

I just retired from shoprite after 33yrs. Believe me they will be around for a long time.

whole foods= whole paycheck.

I don't see ShopRite closing, since the stores are independently owned by member groups, including Brown's Chef Markets in PA and NJ

This scares me because I work at Dollar Tree. I can say this much. Where I am sales are booming. And we get alot of compliments on how clean we keep it there compared to others of our brand. People were shocked when they found out our prices are going up. But it's like only a quarter and possibly a few dollars on certain things. Which things will be apart on pricing. And this will mean we will be able to get higher quality things. I personally enjoy working there a good amount. Wish they offered Full Time. But it's rare. But hey I could do it. And in the time I wouldn't be Cashiering I be cleaning. Which I been told I do really good on cleaning and stocking. But yeah I say working at Dollar Tree isn't all bad. Varies of course from place to place. Where I work most people are nice and pretty passionate about crafting. Along with being very passionate about decorating for Holidays. But yeah out of all the jobs I've had over the years I think I enjoy this one the most. Sure there are days I'm upset or scared. (People can be scary.) But I like this job way better.

I live in central New Jersey in the Flemington area and every ShopRite within a 20 mile radius is so busy you have to wait for a parking spot. So they must be selling something , they're higher than Walmart but if you want Quality Food ShopRite is your answer

ShopRite is very much alive. It may have lost stores due to changing demographics, or in the fringes of their warehouse base in Kesbay, NJ. It is a unique chain where individuals own from 1-30+ stores and in turn own in a co-op venture, Wakefaren, that does buying, warehousing, distribution marketing, store layout and other assistance. Yes, the did discontinue pharmacies in many of their stores due to competition and staffing issues from the pandemic. Many have shifted the former pharmacy space to use with their shop at home service.

Shop local home owned stores. Stopped going to Wally world and big grocers for your groceries.

I love Shoprite. All the Shoprite stores in NY and NJ are great stores, not as overpriced as say, Acme and Kings. I hope they don't disappear... how are people going to get food if we can't go to the grocery store? I enjoy getting my groceries in person. The few times I had delivery they gave me old fruit and veggies and I didn't bother to send them back. I tried, but managers couldn't care any less. We have to keep our grocery stores for Petes sake!

Dollar Tree lost me as a customer when they increased their price to $1.25

I live in the Detroit, Michigan area and Sav a Lot has been closing stores in the suburbs around the Detroit area. The Sav a Lot stores in the inner city of Detroit are still open. The Sav a Lot stores are located in former A&P, and Farmer Jack Supermarkets.

People are shopping at Aldi, Save a lot and Walmart for most stable food items and buying meat from local farms or larger stores because saving a few pennies count.

Walgreen's buying out Wrongade makes as much sense as when Popeye's bought out Church's. NEVER buy out a struggling competitor, let them die, then swoop in and take over the locations for FREE. Buying Church's is the reason that Al Copeland lost Popeyes, so I'm not surprised that Walgreen's is following in the same footsteps.

Save A Lot was suppose to be the answer to supermarket desserts. But bad management has allow for bad management practices. So this is not a surprise. When the store first opened up, I saw a lot of shoppers. Towards the end, I was the only person in the store besides a manager and employee. Customers saw the writing on the wall.

I would rather pick my own fruit and vegetables than have someone else do it for me.

There is a new ShopRite store in our dying mall, but no one goes there because it’s way too big. No one wants to walk a mile just for milk. My family religiously shops at Weis Markets, a PA based store with locations in 5 other states. We have 6 Weis locations in my county and a new one just north of us. They’re always busy.

ShopRite is huge in New York as well. They're literally everywhere in New York. They've been here forever. The Newburgh location you mention was under a lot of competition, including a local grocer that has taken over the local market.

Inflation is primarily a 'numbers' game. Dollar store should consider something like "5&10_DOLLAR STORE". (Remember Woolworth's 5 and dime store?)

Save-A-Lot used to have two stores near me in south-ish Florida. One closed several years ago and the other a year after that. For a while they had excellent prices on jalapeños, tomatillos, ginger, and imported beef. Also pasta and sauce and a few other items I give to food pantries. Now the nearest is 30 miles away and I haven’t been there in years.

I shop at Meijer, Walmart, Fresh Thyme, Aldi and occasionally kroger...

Schnuck’s is a relative newcomer to my part of Illinois (haven’t lived there in 30 years though). I was impressed with it on a 2016 visit, but was struck that there were no locations in my impoverished hometown, Decatur.

I haven't seen one ShopRite close????

I was shocked when they closed Schnucks in Shrewsbury. But there is a store about a mile east. But miles before you run into another grocery store west or south.

What hurt is Walmart when it became big Walmart corporate it hurts lots of businesses especially mom and pop stores.

Last year 17 restaurants closed in my town because of cv19. Some never re opened. On the flip side, its been a boom for supermarkets.

As a Kroger employee, we didn't get a raise or covid pay and yes they did close stores and yes our CEO did a huge raise. I wouldn't be surprised if we closed.

Maybe if one or some of these place opened in foid deserts, taking away things like prepared meals, flowers etc. They might do better.

In my part of Eastern PA, the main store chains include Giant (not Giant Eagle), Weis, Redner's, and the ubiquitous WalMart and Target.

I don't agree with you that Whole Foods Market and Dollar Tree risk closure. Whole Foods Market is owned by one of the five biggest corporations in the world, Amazon can afford to keep it as a loss leader. I assume that Amazon is trying to get more customers to be Prime members. When Dollar Tree announced the price change to $1.25, the stock price soared over 10%, because it indicated that the company had pricing power. The only thing that might not survive is the name.

Kroger definitely has problems but they aren't going anywhere. They have a presence in every single state in one way or another.

They should try unloading trucks when they arrive instead of setting del.times then have trucks store their products for 8hrs before they unload them after driver pay lumpers hundreds of dollars.

I think Walgreen's problem is there are too many of them. There are four within a couple of miles of my house.

I remember moving out of Chicago & into the suburbs when I was a child and first going to an Eagle super market. I got my usual Nestle Crunch bar off the shelf as a bribe for being well behaved and noticed something I had never seen before. The 10 cent price was discounted to 8 cents. I had never seen such a thing in the big city which goes to show you that price fixing was still alive and well 50 years ago in the windy city.

The Shop Rites in northern NJ are always crowded. They were doing fine, last time I looked.

Winn Dixie in FL they are so behind the times. I don’t see how they stay open

I do not consider Dollar Tree and Walgreens to be grocery stores.

im confused as to why shoprite is listed on here? they seem to be thriving in my area. also who buys food at dollar tree? same with Walgreens?

When I lived in Memphis, Shnuck's came in and bought out Sessel's, a brand considered to be a strong rival for Publix. Sometime in the last 10 years, Schnuck's left Memphis, leaving the area for Kroger and Piggly Wiggle and/or Winn-Dixie to fight it out.

Shop rite, hands down. Lidls would be next followed by Trader Joe's, Aldis, That's North East USA. South East USA, would be Publix followed by Aldi's, Trader Joe's, Sprouts. We have no Shop rite or Lidls, unfortunately. Depending were you live you are limited too.

The NJ Shop-Rites near me are great!

Some of the Save-A-Lot in Connecticut are closing up too, other chains like key foods are buying them out.

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We have a chain here out west called Ridley's. The stores are in rural , remote towns in Idaho , Wyoming, and Utah primarily. The stores are relics from the 80s , with outdated interiors , ugly flooring, bad lighting , and most of them I've seen don't have self-checkout. The Krogers , the Albertsons of the grocery world have no interest in buying this chain , as they are often in such remote areas its probably hard to turn a profit. Being the "only game in town" offers little incentive for them to improve and update.

I remember Safeway and Aldi's in Indiana never heard of snucks

Shop-Rite isn't going anywhere. In fact, where I live in South Jersey all we have is Shop-Rite and Aldi as ACME moved out several years ago.

KPIX Walgreens closure interview was the best. 🤣

ALDI FOR THE WIN !!!! but i love Dollar Tree for many items. Usually cleaning products, toiletries.

Shop Rite in Delaware is in trouble, customers hate the fact that not only is the pharmacy gone, but there's no cashiers anymore, it's all self checkout. I work at a grocery store in the area and we've gotten tons of new customers that are ditching Shop Rite. And no surprise about Walgreens. Locally, they started last year by reducing pharmacy hours on weekends. Then they came out with the Walgreens credit card, what a joke! Now, the pharmacy section is actually closed on weekends. I worked for Walgreens for 13 years, and there's no way they'll survive without the pharmacy sales on the weekend. The front end just doesn't do enough business to carry the store.

My favorite places to grocery shop are LAZY ACRES AND GELSONS. I go to Whole Foods occasionally.

My town in NJ just opened a new bigger shop right that everyone is so excited about

My favorite grocery store is the one with the lowest prices that's close to home.

I thought I was watching a video on grocery stores that went off the rails into Dollar Tree, Walgreens, et al. And a 5 store NYC chain takes precedence over looking at Stop & Shop, or a fairly large nE chain, BigY. BTW--ShopRite here in western CT carries a far larger variety & quantity of products than Stop & Shop & BigY together. And the local S&S is cursed with miles of empty shelves. Since this is a 2021 video, seems like someone needs to recognize that New England and the midwest exist.

We lost our shoprite too in NY area can't believe think they said the lease was too high..everything going down the tube now things are bad I drive trailer deisel fuel over 5.50 now every thing traveling is train or truck brace yourselves...

Where is that Dollar Tree you showed. I have never seen one without a ton of boxes and stuff on the ground. That one was so neat.

I'm from Jersey but had to relocate to MD. I was so happy to see a Shoprite when I arrived.. Unfortunately, it didn't make it. ☹️

Sav-a-lot definitely should be on this list. Dollar Tree stores be busy all the time. The Whole Foods stores here in Fort Lauderdale stay busy!

At 6 minutes 13 seconds, this is the second electrical sign you've shown. I wonder if any of these you will show have fully working lights. Having pride in one store and making it look good for their customers I figured would be on the top of the chart. But maybe I'm just a stickler there for aesthetics.

ShopRite ain’t going a mofo where. They are the top market in the region. WTH y’all sniffin, smh.

Our Kroger is a crappy store with very little variety and everything comes from the east coast even though it's less than an hour from Chicago. Everyone I ask why they go to Kroger and they all said it's cuz they're the only grocery store on that side of town besides Aldi

I used to shop at the Neil Ave store in Columbus.

I used to work for Kroger in Hinesville, Georgia

In Pennsylvania, we have Weis and Giant. Giant DOMINATES the grocery market.

Have only had one Greer's always in my area!

There's a lot to be said for making a series of mergers with similar supermarkets and closing unnecessary WholeFoods branches. Harris Teeter would be a perfect partner for a merger. HT's popularity in the Charlotte region is a good reason why WF never got off the ground there.

Winn Dixie stores are also closing as is Sav A Lots.

7:38 -- Blame Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney for creating 'a fresh food desert' in the inner-city, with his soda-pop tax.

Times are changing, its not going to stop changing, The sad part of that fact is, Its usually to late when we discovery it wasn't for the best.

All of the sav a lots here in Wichita have closed. Putting an unnecessary burden on local consumers. These grocery chains need to reevaluate the neighborhoods that they come to. Aldis is doing great because they haven't tried to grow to fast.

There's no selection at Wholefood. Seriously I went there once and never set foot in there again.

I'm ready to see Walgreens disappear I'm not a fan of their pharmacy.

It seems that Shop Rite is much more popular throughout Africa than the United States. In the States is kind of like Save A Lot or Stop Shop and Save.

Weird, where I live there are no Shop Rite, Kroger, or Giant Eagle grocery stores. I believe none of these are in Florida, or at least northern Florida.

If ShopRite supermarkets closes, my prediction is that those identical stores will reopen on the very next day, renamed "Bowl and Basket." 'Why?" You might ask, perhaps just to leave some of its retirees, recently retired, having recently just started to become earning their benefits "in pay status" out in the metaphorical cold, so to speak.

There's only one Shop Rite in my area and it's out of the way. We don't have Kroger in MD. There's a whole Foods in my area but it's expensive and I don't like the taste of their milk. There are no Piggly Wiggly in MD. No Rite Aid is in my county in MD and more. Walgreens has taken over. I love the DollarTree with the frozen food section and all the stuff now is $1.25.

I like stores like trader Joe's. They offer high quality products that can't be found anywhere else. Or that are exclusive to their stores.

Just before 2 minutes 16 seconds, I believe the store called Kroger's. If I heard this correctly what was mentioned in your video this is very interesting. I wonder how they get away with that type of paying of employees. I might have heard it wrong though.

Dollar tree wages? Manager pay is under $9.00 a hour, and when each manager is replaced, it's for less pay than the prior manager started at. BTW Pelham is pronounced Pell-lum Honey: any convience store sells tums, lay off the hot sauce!

Yeah about Kroger... Kroger bought Albertsons... Kroger is definitely staying around for a long time

I'VE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS SINCE 1995 IVE WORKED FOR AP SUPERMARKET PATHMART FOOD TOWN FOOD LION SHOP RITE AND NOW WINN DIXIE IM NOW 45 YEARS OLD C&S AMAZON AND WAL-MART ARE GOING TO BE ALL THAT'S LEFT

Even successful grocers operate on thin margins. Quantity is what keeps them afloat. If sales fall off noticeably at certain stores, they don't remain open for long.

I grew up on Giant Eagle.

Aw, I grew up with Shop Rite's. Now I'm in SuperOne territory. It's nowhere near as good...

I find that Shoprite is always well-stocked, unlike Albertsons Acme. Acme shelves are always lacking.

The supermarket and Drugstore are they a thing of the pass.

Don’t have a Kroger by me

Any stores in New York or California are pretty much screwed and won't last. You get what you vote for.

Mashed is always wrong when it comes to predictions like these. Next video will be about how great they're doing.

I don't like whole foods I would never want to buy Amazon groceries. I hope I don't ever have to hurts businesses even more than big corporate Walmart his kids hurt Walmart reputation of Sam their dad.

Honestly Florida and my area will be fine. 😁 Walgreens is thriving still in Bay County. 👍🏻 Now me being from Metro Atlanta originally not shocking about Kroger going downhill they have made some poor decisions in general including closing down and getting greedy with Lucky’s Market and Tom Thumb food mart of Florida, which 2020 changed everything on that, and Whole Foods is definitely not going nowhere they are extremely busy as hell in Destin, Florida. 😂 Dollar Tree not shocking to see them on this list, they have been extremely junky in the past several years now, and lastly Piggly Wiggly sucks, it’s amazing that any of there locations except Port St Joe, Florida are still in business, only reason I include that location from the exclusion list is because it’s a really nice location unlike most of there locations. 🤔

COME ON MAN alot of these stores in the big cities were getting robbed on a weekly or more basis and that is why revenue stream was LOW

No one considers worker turnover,lack of customer service,due to short employee service. Grocery used to be a good paying union job not anymore

Our favorite food store is shop rite It's not closing anytime soon

Shoprite is still around and still doing extremely well as of January 10th, 2023.

The report about Kroger is a shock.

I live in Texas and love shopping at H-E-B

Sheltered Pick Up Experience in colder countries like Canada!

We have no Dollar Tree Stores in my area.

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