Question for the Southerners!

[pinkiebell1001]

Ahhh...I love Piggly Wiggly!:P Winn Dixie is the devil though hehe The last time I went into a Winn Dixie i swear, almost everything was expired! Gross!

[blueangel]

When I first moved to Florida, I thought "Winn Dixie" was a sweepstakes!

[Jimmy Choo]

When I first moved to the South the only familar thing I could find was a Food Lion! I will tell you the one chain I wish would move South but it hasn't is Wawa. That was the best little convience store!

[shinerbock]

Anybody know what the most popular grocery store is? I guess I just havent gotten out of my area too much (well, and bought groceries), but most of the time when they talk about big grocery store chains I have no idea what they are talkin about. I know Safeway is a big one up north I guess, but we have none down here. I always thought Kroger and Publix were big, but maybe not. Publix and Whole Foods by the way, are the best grocery stores.

[blueangel]

I agree with you.. I LOVE Whole Foods. That's where I do 99-percent of my grocery shopping. They're very pricey, but I do like the quality of their foods. The one that I go to gets a lot of their produce at local organic farms. I wish they had a Publix by me. That is a fabulous store!

As for the largest.. the honors had been Krogers. They merged with Fred Meyer in 1998, and became the biggest supermarket chain in the country-- with $43 billion dollars in annual revenue in 31 states.

BUT in 200w, Wal-mart took over the number one slot with $53 billion dollars in grocery sales.

Albertsons is #3.

[blueangel]

I agree with you.. I LOVE Whole Foods. That's where I do 99-percent of my grocery shopping. They're very pricey, but I do like the quality of their foods. The one that I go to gets a lot of their produce at local organic farms. I wish they had a Publix by me. That is a fabulous store!

As for the largest.. the honors had been Krogers. They merged with Fred Meyer in 1998, and became the biggest supermarket chain in the country-- with $43 billion dollars in annual revenue in 31 states.

BUT in 2002, Wal-mart took over the number one slot with $53 billion dollars in grocery sales.

Albertsons is #3.

[LightBulb]

Someone's gonna have to explain the Pepsi terrorism thing.

[shinerbock]

Coke: America, children, baseball, sunshine
Pepsi: North Korea, al-qaeda, Iran, New Jersey

[33girl]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Anybody know what the most popular grocery store is? I guess I just havent gotten out of my area too much (well, and bought groceries), but most of the time when they talk about big grocery store chains I have no idea what they are talkin about. I know Safeway is a big one up north I guess, but we have none down here. I always thought Kroger and Publix were big, but maybe not. Publix and Whole Foods by the way, are the best grocery stores.

Kroger used to be bigger - well, they used to be here until all the union brouhaha and they left. There aren't any in PA any more, as far as I know.

Sad to say, the most popular grocery store these days is probably (gag) Walmart.

[shinerbock]

Alpha, better work on that.

I think KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are owned by Yum Brands, I have a couple friends who work at their HQ.

[blueangel]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Alpha, better work on that.

I think KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are owned by Yum Brands, I have a couple friends who work at their HQ.

Correct. From the Yum Brands website:

"Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 34,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. Four of our restaurant brands - KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global leaders of the chicken, quick-service seafood, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. A&W Restaurants is the longest running quick-service franchise chain in America. "