Since I don't live in the U.S., the names of the chains I shop at are irrelevant. Close to where I live, there are three stores that sell groceries.
One is a discount drugstore. It sells canned food at discount prices. It has a sale each week, and a few items are further reduced.
One is a full-service supermarket. It lengthened its hours to compete with convenience stores after the other supermarket chains were mostly driven out of our area.
One is a general store chain with a limited selection but the lowest prices on most of the things it does carry.
So I get the things at the full-service supermarket that only it carries, or a few that are least expensive there or of better quality there (bread, ice cream).
I get what I can at the general store or the drugstore instead.
Incidentally:
The general store chain is a company based in Quebec. Recently, they found a company that would handle the franchise for them in Western Canada, and so locations have only recently opened up in my area. I call it a general store because it sells clothing as well as food (and miscellaneous items like toys and remaindered DVDs). They have opened a few locations in the Eastern United States. Despite the small size of their locations, their emphasis on low prices lends some justification to a claim on a map of their North American locations in their stores that they're trying to compete with... Wal-Mart.
The discount drug store chain is headquartered in Richmond, B.C. (a suburb of Vancouver). As far as I know, it is a purely Canadian company.
The full-service supermarket chain, on the other hand, is a major U.S. supermarket chain.
One is a discount drugstore. It sells canned food at discount prices. It has a sale each week, and a few items are further reduced.
One is a full-service supermarket. It lengthened its hours to compete with convenience stores after the other supermarket chains were mostly driven out of our area.
One is a general store chain with a limited selection but the lowest prices on most of the things it does carry.
So I get the things at the full-service supermarket that only it carries, or a few that are least expensive there or of better quality there (bread, ice cream).
I get what I can at the general store or the drugstore instead.
Incidentally:
The general store chain is a company based in Quebec. Recently, they found a company that would handle the franchise for them in Western Canada, and so locations have only recently opened up in my area. I call it a general store because it sells clothing as well as food (and miscellaneous items like toys and remaindered DVDs). They have opened a few locations in the Eastern United States. Despite the small size of their locations, their emphasis on low prices lends some justification to a claim on a map of their North American locations in their stores that they're trying to compete with... Wal-Mart.
The discount drug store chain is headquartered in Richmond, B.C. (a suburb of Vancouver). As far as I know, it is a purely Canadian company.
The full-service supermarket chain, on the other hand, is a major U.S. supermarket chain.
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. The last big hurricane they had pretty much wiped them off the map. Dallas is nice, too. San Antonio sucks.
