Where do you do your food shopping?

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Kroger.....sometime Super Wal-Mart

Shop smart...shop S-Mart.

We've got a local supermarket chain here called Ukrops. They're a little bit pricier than Food Lion or Wal-Mart, but the food is a bit better quality and fresher, the service is much faster, and the stores are spotless clean. There's a smaller, neighborhood store less than a mile from my house. It's busy during the day, but in the evenings after 8PM, it's pretty much deserted. I go over there then and do my shopping because it's so quiet. The store has traditional acoustical dropped ceiling tile. I can usually walk right up to a regiester and check out without any wait. The clerks are friendly, and I know many of them by name because I'm a regular, and it's great to chat a little while they are ringing my groceries up.

I got so sick of Wal-Mart grocery shopping. That place is an Aspie's worst nightmare. There's so much noise in there with screaming kids. beeping and buzzing electronics, PA systems squawking announcements, and the acoustics of the open ceiling transmit and reverberate the stuff all over the building. Worst of all, there's long lines, rude clerks, and sticky, messy floors all over the place. The parking lot is another story...with rude people cutting you off all the time. It's definitely not worth the few dollars savings to deal with this literal headache!

For spices and Vegetablest, I'll try to go to the local Indian Market, or the local Latino Tienda or Carnecieria. For regular groceries, either Publix, which has a good selection, or the dingy, ghetto style Bi-Lo down the street from me. --I prefer the Publix.

Depends on what mood I'm in and how much I have. If I'm cheap, there's a Redner's down the street, which is a typical supermarket-looking place that sells at warehouse prices. Other times I'll go to the over-fabulous Wegmans, which has literally anything and everything.

I shop at Ralphs which isn't too far, or if I want gourmet items, I go to the Trader Joe's in my neighborhood. What I love about Trader Joes is their coffees as well as the wine selection. On Sundays, I often enjoy the local farmer's market for the fresh produce and honey in bulk as I love to make mead.

I hate shopping the lights and noise are a bit much at times luckaly I'm married and my wife does most of the shopping at Shoprite

We generally shop at the Somerfield in our town or at the large market in the next county. We go to a big Lidl down the road when we need to stock up on booze and stuff of that nature.