Poll: Where Do You Shop For Groceries?
Recently I was in the Target on Hampton and saw they had finally added a fresh food section. I often wondered why a fresh food section wasn’t included when this store opened in 2005.
They had to steal square footage from other areas to get the space to expand their grocery offerings. So I began wondering where all of you shop for groceries. Do you go to big supermarkets like Schnuck’s or Dierberg’s? Whole Foods? Vincent’s? Walgreen’s?
The poll this week asks the question and provides many answers. The poll is in the right sidebar.
– Steve Patterson
Why are some grouped together and some listed individually? If Walmart and Target are lumped together, shouldn’t Schnuck’s and Direbergs also be listed together? Aldi’s and Save-a Lot? And why aren’t the “bigger boxes” listed, Sam’s Club and Cotsco? How about local butchers, like G&W Sausage and Manzo’s? Bigger picture, why limit it to only three? Like many other purchases I make, I go to the place that offer the best combination of convenience, quality and price, and that varies from day to day, depending on what’s on the menu that day or that week . . . .
Why are some grouped together and some listed individually? If Walmart and Target are lumped together, shouldn’t Schnuck’s and Direbergs also be listed together? Aldi’s and Save-a Lot? And why aren’t the “bigger boxes” listed, Sam’s Club and Cotsco? How about local butchers, like G&W Sausage and Manzo’s? Bigger picture, why limit it to only three? Like many other purchases I make, I go to the place that offer the best combination of convenience, quality and price, and that varies from day to day, depending on what’s on the menu that day or that week . . . .
I should have included Costco & Sam’s warehouse clubs. I wanted to see how primarily grocery stores compared to each other and to other categories.
Just as important is where the veggies are grown. I shop at Soulard Market almost every weekend, although Tower Grove is much closer to me. I appreciate the choice. I have been a dirt farmer and have sold at Soulard Market and the old U City Loop Market long before the loop market building was built.
The whole design of the urban environment and the accommodation of the surroudning agriculture market is key to our future. Up to now, at least in the last 50 years, we have ignored the relation of agricultural production to the city. Oil, the nemesis of Americ,a has distorted agricultural priorities.
As we overcome oil, which is inevitable, a sustainability designed urban area will include food, just as it did earlier in this century and beyond. My own house, just off of Grand Ave. was not built until 1904 and were market gardens before that time.
The design of cities should impact food, its storage and the food kingdom of any area. In St. Louis it is absurd to bring in watermelons in the middle of winter for instance.
It is only possible with an impossible system of far away farms. It is much better to develop a local cuisine, beyond Schnucks, Shop and Save and the rest. So my shopping preferences in the poll do not in any way reflect my real preferences.
Just as important is where the veggies are grown. I shop at Soulard Market almost every weekend, although Tower Grove is much closer to me. I appreciate the choice. I have been a dirt farmer and have sold at Soulard Market and the old U City Loop Market long before the loop market building was built.
The whole design of the urban environment and the accommodation of the surroudning agriculture market is key to our future. Up to now, at least in the last 50 years, we have ignored the relation of agricultural production to the city. Oil, the nemesis of Americ,a has distorted agricultural priorities.
As we overcome oil, which is inevitable, a sustainability designed urban area will include food, just as it did earlier in this century and beyond. My own house, just off of Grand Ave. was not built until 1904 and were market gardens before that time.
The design of cities should impact food, its storage and the food kingdom of any area. In St. Louis it is absurd to bring in watermelons in the middle of winter for instance.
It is only possible with an impossible system of far away farms. It is much better to develop a local cuisine, beyond Schnucks, Shop and Save and the rest. So my shopping preferences in the poll do not in any way reflect my real preferences.
I should have included Costco & Sam’s warehouse clubs. I wanted to see how primarily grocery stores compared to each other and to other categories.
Steve- I used to live 2 blocks from the Target on Hampton store and I was told by a member of the St. Louis Hills neighborhood association that they fought against Target carrying groceries back when it re-opened in 2005 due to it incresing use by EBT customers. They did not want EBT users coming in to their neighborhood in fear that it would destroy the last middle class enclave in the city.Â
Steve- I used to live 2 blocks from the Target on Hampton store and I was told by a member of the St. Louis Hills neighborhood association that they fought against Target carrying groceries back when it re-opened in 2005 due to it incresing use by EBT customers. They did not want EBT users coming in to their neighborhood in fear that it would destroy the last middle class enclave in the city.