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Originally Posted by rubicon
We are equal opportunity grocery shoppers
When we lived in Iowa they had two employee owned grocery chains that did well Dahl's and Hy Vee
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I spent the first 18 years of my life in eastern Iowa, and I have shopped at HyVee many times as my dad still lives 1 mile from one of the HyVee stores in Dubuque, IA. HyVee is an excellent chain (their motto is "Where there's a helpful smile in every aisle." I have also shopped at several Publix stores while visiting The Villages and have always had a good experience.
About 20 years ago I worked with a chemist who immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union. I asked her what she most liked about living in the United States. Her answer surprised me. She told me that one of her favorite things about living in the U.S. was being able to go into an American supermarket and seeing rows and rows of stocked shelves and being able to buy as many groceries as one wanted as long as you had the money to pay for them. She said that such was not the case in the Soviet Union in the early 1990's when there were food shortages and rationing.