Do you get your groceries from multiple sources?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Do you get your groceries from multiple sources?

I go to Target to get my frozen 'california style' veggies: Target's 16oz bag costs $1.05. Cub Foods' frozen veggies is $1.75. Quality seems no different, so how come Target can sell it for so much less? As my diet is 70% vegetarian (1 or 2 pounds per day), this is a gigantic savings in $ for me. Their name-brand tuna is also a couple of cents cheaper (48 cents instead of 50, whee) so I get it there too. It's odd that tuna has not increased in price over the last 7.5 years, might I add... does nobody like to eat fish, or does everybody know something I don't?

I get my chopped onions from Wal-Mart. At 50 cents per 2oz, it's much cheaper than the $4 for 8oz of the other brands at Cub. (and that's the ONLY reason why I set foot in that abomination of a store. There aren't any real savings on anything else.)

Otherwise I go to Cub where meat prices are through the roof... Pity I can't stock up when the lean meats are $5/32oz instead of $7/32oz... :cry:

[wryter2000]

1. Walmart chopped onions?

Why not buy onions at the supermarket and chop them yourself? Even an el cheapo chef's knife like you could buy at the supermarket would chop onions just fine.

We buy most of our food at Albertson's and Safeway (although if there's a strike, that'll change), but we buy everything we can at Costco. Butter is $2.50 a pound if you buy 4 pounds.

[Deja Q]

4. What's the most effective way to dry chopped onions?

I could spent $20 on a chopper and cook 'em in the oven, but it's highly time consuming and prone to overcooking...

[Nikia]

2. For prices, we go to Woodman's

For those of you not familiar with it, it is a grocery store chain mostly if not entirely in Wisconsin. The store is huge and the prices are cheap. This store is in a nearby bigger city. We buy soda, frozen stuff, and a variety of other non fresh stuff.
We go to our local grocery stores for convience and fresh stuff. I don't trust stores as large Woodman's to keep as close of an eye on freshness and quality. The one within walking distance is convient, but has a less of a selection and requires a discount card to get items on sale. The larger store, about a mile away, has bigger variety but is more expensive on their nonsale items. Both stores are generally significantly more expensive than Woodman's. They are in a small town though and only compete against each other minus a cheap grocery store that doesn't keep their non perishable items or their store as clean as they should. Even though the dust is on the outside of the container and we aren't talking about mold, I judge a grocery store by that. Before the economy got bad, I had a predjudice aginst Woodman's because they didn't have enough people to clear the cardboard and related restocking waste quickly.

[curse10]

3. Yes, but not for price reasons

Purely selection reasons