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dshd66 t1_jdsakm8 wrote

Worst grocery store chain in the country

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FruityGeek t1_jdsb91v wrote

I’d love to see Meijer eat Big Bird’s lunch.

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Goggles_Greek t1_jdsc60w wrote

"Infinite Profit Growth Forever" is definitely both real and healthy /s

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PunkRockKing t1_jdsf6ge wrote

And that’s exactly the problem with capitalism

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jdsgll9 wrote

'If you're not growing, you're declining' - Giant Eagle

'As soon as you're born, you start dying' - Cake

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enoughstreet t1_jdsizi6 wrote

I enjoy walking through market district if I am in an area that has one. Do I buy stuff there? Not much.

But overall my family has gotten better deals at Martins, haven’t tried Krogers often either.

Sadly it’s a time period where we have 1-3 good busy at store, rest is high price so we have to have control.

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happyjazzycook t1_jdsvfu9 wrote

I tried shopping at GE a few times after we returned to the area in 2019, basically for "old times sake" because I always shopped there prior to moving out of state in 2014. The prices now are horrendous. So 90% of my groceries are bought at Aldi, the other 10% at WalMart.

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asparagus_fern t1_jdsvzy4 wrote

Bring h-mart to Pgh!!! Regularly visited the h-mart when I was living in NC and always had a blast finding new stuff to try.

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fryerandice t1_jdswodm wrote

Replying to James19991 (#2,378,774)

It is, everything is. And the number of times I have had the running total on my phone from the posted prices of products and at checkout somehow spent another 50% of what I added up shopping and gone WHAT THE FUCK.

I don't go into giant eagle anymore, not even out of convenience.

Market District branded shit is just great value marked up past name brand stuff, I said it.

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Logical-Rip-8138 t1_jdsxsou wrote

Funny that Giant Eagle is promoting March as woman’s history month and they celebrate it by firing their woman CEO and replacing her with a man.

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sopmaeThrowaway t1_jdt1tj9 wrote

Ah. Thanks for making it known. They obviously don’t care about their customers, workers, their service or their products. Why support them?

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neerdowell t1_jdt7i2o wrote

I hate Giant Eagle with all of my heart. I’m from Akron, Ohio originally and we have a local grocer (Acme), and a local organic grocer (Market Seed). Up in Cleveland you have Dave’s (also local), Heinen’s (local luxe grocer), and Giant Eagle throughout the metro. it’s crazy how competition drives down prices while making for a pleasant shopping experience. I feel like the FTC needs to get involved in PGH because grocery shopping here is like being extorted.

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woodcuttersDaughter t1_jdt8dqj wrote

For as physically large some of the stores are, they are also kinda lacking in variety in some areas. What I can’t buy at Aldi, I’ll stop at GE, but then I end up still having to go to Trader Joe’s, Fresh Thyme, and/or Whole Foods (last resort). And then there’s those few items I can only get at Las Palmas and Pita Land (how is it literally no one else sells a decent pita and baba?). I’d pay a tad more for some things if it meant I didn’t have to run all over town. Aldi would always be stop #1 though.

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V_I_I t1_jdt92e0 wrote

I hate giant eagle.

I just wasted $16 on 48 bottles of water when I could've got 80+ bottles at sams club for cheaper ($12)

I just lost my sams club membership and didn't want to spend $100 again but I might. I only get water but it's worth the savings over a year vs giant eagle and w-mart

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yoder555 t1_jdtdizm wrote

I worked for giant eagle for 10 years. GREED and arrogant executives will be the demise of G.E..

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mmphoto412 t1_jdtiyff wrote

Replying to V_I_I (#2,382,375)

Filters are commonly used, widely available, and affordable.

Or continue spending 10x (or more), have to actually go and get it, and create a massive carbon footprint while you do it.

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bekahed979 t1_jdtlenl wrote

Replying to V_I_I (#2,380,947)

I buy water from whole foods in refillable 3 gallon jugs (They also sell 5 gallon jugs) it's $.39/gallon and it's the best water around. The jugs usually last a couple years & are only around $25

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shanderdrunk t1_jdtmzxx wrote

Replying to Logical-Rip-8138 (#2,379,384)

I won't pretend to know why she was fired, but it didn't have anything to do with being a woman. She had to fuck up bad to lose her spot on the board, there's a reason everyone even within the company is so tight-lipped about it.

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IcePokeTwoSoon t1_jdtopsx wrote

I’m lucky I live in north Fayette, I’m close enough to shop n save Aldi market district and Walmart to compare prices and make a divided list. I’m picky, so most of my produce is market district. Expensive, but I recognize I’m in the minority that I like it the most.

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mike015015 t1_jdtpq0o wrote

Ge started valu king, i think it was, just to crush a value store save a lot. they undercut save a lot , it left town, and magically value king disappeared too.

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Vegetable-Swimming73 t1_jdttgfd wrote

Any business providing basic necessities but in the news for the rich people shenanigans of their leadership has jumped the shark. Down with the dirty bird.

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wvWestwv t1_jdtwelc wrote

“If you ain’t first, you’re last”

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Material_Cable_8708 t1_jdu2c15 wrote

Anyone else not from Pittsburgh have a really hard time shopping here?

I can’t find anything. like why is there a whole isle of just pasta and only one isle labeled ethnic that includes tomato sauce and hoi sin. Absolutely nonsense layout dissimilar to every other store in the country.

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deathreaperco6 t1_jduvq31 wrote

Opening a tech hub in San Fransisco in 2018, only to later open a second in Pittsburgh to tap into the local tech talent. Seems like 2018’s was a huge waste of money lol

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DIY_Creative t1_jduxle7 wrote

Replying to centerofgravityy (#2,383,203)

Came here to say "unrelated, but please read 'Crying in H Mart' by Michelle Zauner..." Amazing book! Tip: listen to the audiobook as Michelle reads it and it elevates the story SO much! Bonus tip: her latest album, Jubilee, is fantastic!

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1ll1l1ll1l1l1l1l1ll1 t1_jduz90q wrote

Replying to mike015015 (#2,383,394)

GE opened Good Cents to compete with Bottom Dollar, then Aldi bought out Bottom Dollar. As Aldi closed many of the Bottom Dollar stores (many with no intention of reopening them as Aldi branded stores), GE closed their Good Cents stores.

Aldi sucks as much as any other corporation.

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JAK3CAL t1_jdv765k wrote

Replying to Optimal_Spend779 (#2,384,062)

Could be, or could be a wegmans tactic to dominate a market before slowly pulling the rug out 😅

Ya my friend group in roc sent a long list of issues to our friend who works at wegmans corporate; he basically said “supply chain” and also “wegmans is looking to scale big and the WNY market is small so they don’t care about it anymore”. Damn lol

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jdvbc2j wrote

Replying to Optimal_Spend779 (#2,391,027)

I grew up in a town where Walmart executed that strategy in the 1990s. Built a superstore ~1995 right outside town, and once everything on the main drag shut down all their prices got jacked way up. It doesn't have anything to do with the current state of inflation, that's their decades-long strategy.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jdvdhko wrote

Replying to Optimal_Spend779 (#2,391,277)

I do most of my grocery shopping at Aldi. We have a special produce delivery thing because I don't need to cut corners on what we eat.

 
Outside of groceries, Walmart sells absolute garbage that's specially made for them and falls apart pretty quickly. I'd never buy anything there I intend to keep for any period of time.

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Optimal_Spend779 t1_jdveqrq wrote

Replying to 69FunnyNumberGuy420 (#2,391,538)

Wow you need to get outside and off of Reddit more, my dude. I don’t have a Costco. I used to live by one, now I live in an area with a lot less options because I was priced out of where I was living, that’s capitalism for ya. I’m trying to make ends meet as best as I can with the options I have because when I need Drano, I can’t make it appear from thin air or get it from some local artisan. “Anyone with options” - do you even hear the classism in your tone there or are you totally clueless?

Does Costco carry everything? No they definitely don’t. Did Walmart kill your grandma or something? I agree they’re an evil shit corporation, you won’t find me defending them at all but people need to make ends meet and don’t all have the same options as you do. Aldi just had a big recall on some frozen fruit. Are they better overall than Walmart? Sure. Are they perfect? Nah, almost nowhere you spend your money is.

You’re passive aggressively coming at me, I assume, because I mentioned price checking shit at Walmart? Ok. But you need a grip on reality and maybe a touch less militant idealism. Not everyone lives your reality. Go take a deep breath of some fresh air.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jdvexm9 wrote

Replying to Optimal_Spend779 (#2,391,663)

> Wow you need to get outside and off of Reddit more, my dude.

 

Costco, definitely a Reddit phenomenon.
 
> do you even hear the classism in your tone there

 
I don't particularly care, Walmart is garbage and anyone with options avoids it like the plague.
 
Aldi will be cheaper for you than Walmart and better in every way that matters.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jdvfkqd wrote

Replying to Optimal_Spend779 (#2,391,747)

I'd assume that anyone posting in the Pittsburgh subreddit lives in or around Pittsburgh and not out in Possum Rib, PA. If you live in one of those benighted places where Walmart destroyed all the competition a long time ago then you have my sympathies.

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Optimal_Spend779 t1_jdvfu14 wrote

Replying to 69FunnyNumberGuy420 (#2,391,784)

Ah there’s that classism again! I said in a comment above where I live. Used to live in Pittsburgh, still care about the city a lot and hope to move back one day. Current circumstances don’t allow it. Again, not everyone lives your reality.

Still waiting to hear where else I can safely, in your opinion, buy Drano when my drain is clogged.

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Optimal_Spend779 t1_jdvge23 wrote

Replying to 69FunnyNumberGuy420 (#2,391,900)

Do you sleep better at night being a snob? Doubt it. You sound pretty sad. I know the type, escaped a small town and now feels better putting down everyone else still in them because of some weird superiority complex. Know lots of them, definitely a type. Last comment. Get some help.

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turp101 t1_jdw1q80 wrote

Replying to Goggles_Greek (#2,376,603)

This is a fundamental flaw in the current version of our economy/capitalism. The infinite growth mantra that has readily been preached for over 40 years is just not logistically feasible. Eventually there are constrained resources of some type, even if it is just the lack of agility of a large bloated company unable to pivot to meet the new latest and greatest whatchamacallit coming from the competition.

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turp101 t1_jdw20c7 wrote

Replying to 69FunnyNumberGuy420 (#2,390,794)

And so many auto manufacturers as well. Cars are a loss leader for several as they make money from their credit services.

Heck - Airline frequent flyer programs serve the same purpose for large airlines as the programs have higher valuations and profits than the actual flying portion of the business.

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ExtremelyQualified t1_jdw9fr4 wrote

Local governments need to stop letting Giant Eagle bully them into maintaining little monopolies. They told Crafton that if Aldi was allowed into the Crafton/Ingram Shopping Center, they'd pull out.

It's crazy the prices that they get away with in a city with a relatively low cost of living otherwise. Giant Eagle is more expensive than Whole Foods.

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DelphicWoodchuck t1_jdwnn7f wrote

Replying to JAK3CAL (#2,382,825)

My friends from Rochester were saying the same thing. It's a disappointment - Wegmans was one of the parts of the pieces of Rochester that I enjoyed most. Like a giant Trader Joe's with similar/lower prices.

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