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[ebeth03]

Due to the weather, work, and being at home, I had not been to the grocery store in about two weeks!!! I was literally out of eveything, but most importantly, fruit, and so today I finally had to go...I spent $175 at Wal-Mart! Phew!!! That's a lot of groceries! (I needed it though!) I don't know how those of you who live in states like California

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[misslynn]

they have big grocery stores/supermarkets/supercenters in california and new york. i don't shop at walmart anymore; i shop at the jewel (an illinois supermarket chain) that's next to my apartment complex. there were big grocery stores in nyc, the difference was parking, mostly. :)

[ebeth03]

There are some, yes, but they are not quite the same as here. (Also, not quite the ideal prices and convenience of having everything in one place as Wal-Mart does. :-)

[pennylane8]

haha, I'm actually considering (very seriously) ditching my car all together...but we'll see. Small trips to the farmer's market (we have about 5 a week in the area) and to the grocery (I suppose it helps that I'm at Whole Foods a lot, when I'm actually working there) mean that I can fit everything in my bag or in the baskets or strapped on top of the bike. Eppe and I have a "grocery getter" bike (named Gene Kruppa). You can load this thing up with sooooo many groceries, it's unreal (and also a lot of fun)! The other day, I actually called it "the car" on 2 seperate occasions by accident. It's like the SUV of bikes, and you always, always, always get rock-star parking when you ride your bike!

[the_dalai_mama]

Heh, we call Wal-Mart "Hell-Mart" because of it's awful score on things like employee rights/benefits/community businesses to name a few. I only shop there when we visit family and there is no other option.
We shop locally as much as we can. Farm stand, farmers market, and the grocery store. Most of our grocery money goes to Trader Joe's, though we buy in bulk at a local chain things like flour, rice, pasta, dried fruit.