Understand, the most important cost item for me is time. I hate every second I spend grocery shopping, so I pick the place that has the best selection and quality and then possibly price. The price setting techniques that they use are very sophisticated. They all set their sale and other prices to yield the needed return on an average week for the time of the year. Yes, you might cherry pick items on a certain week that makes one store look better than another. However, over the long haul and particularly if your doing multiple stores each week, that savings is washed away. We have been shopping at Publix for over twenty years now. Is there a better grocery store, yes, I can think of several. However, none of those are here. The store with the most consistent quality and selection here is Publix. Store to store they have a consistent level of overall characteristics. The others all fall short there. Each can have a bright spot store, but when the people change so does the store.
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