A Sea Of Red

I'm not sure if there are any new contenders, but the Kroger in Forest took the inaugural edition of this competition last year and remains the prohibitive favorite.

Someone voted for the Fort Avenue Kroger? That is easily the worst Kroger in town...

I still haven't been to the one in Forest, so I've gotta vote for Boonsboro (Timberlake is a close second). And agreed about Fort Avenue, easily the worst in town.

Can this Target be considered a supermarket? No produce. No meat. No bakery.

It received a nomination last year so I included it. What happened to all of the smaller regional chains like Wynn Dixie, Harris Teeter & Piggly Wiggly? Have Safeway or Albertsons come into Virginia? Kroger could use some competition to keep prices down.

Winn Dixie has pretty much closed up shop in this area. Most of the Piggly Wiggly's I see are in NC. I haven't seen many/if any Harris Teeters in VA. Richmond area is pretty much Kroger, Food Lion, and Martins (used to Ukrop's).

Really the only other significant grocery store chain I can think of is Food Lion and the only one of those I saw was on 29 past the airport

BJWilliams wrote:Really the only other significant grocery store chain I can think of is Food Lion and the only one of those I saw was on 29 past the airport

Food Lion is still around (not sure how) they also have locales on Memorial, in Forest and Boonsboro.

It's basically Wall-Mart vs. Kroger in the Lynchburg area.

There's also one of those new discount grocery stores on Timberlake next to the Kroger where (I think) a Winn Dixie used to be. I go in there to buy glass bottled soft drinks for my coffee bar at church. They even carry Frosty Root Beer and (sometimes) Cheerwine in glass bottles.
It's like stepping back in the 1960s.

There is a Harris Teeter in CVille, but that's the only one I've seen in VA recently. The rest are in NC.

Lynchburg or Roanoke could use a Trader Joe's and a Whole Foods, would be nice to be able to grab a bottle of Two Buck Chuck.

There was a Harris Teeter in Blacksburg on South Main when I was in school, but I don't go back that way very often any more so I don't know if it's there.

The Kroger in Forest is fantastic, but it's also 30 minutes away from me, so I don't go there often. The Kroger on Old Forest is much worse than the one on Fort.

Chris Lang wrote:The Kroger on Old Forest is much worse than the one on Fort.

qft

Chris Lang wrote: The Kroger on Old Forest is much worse than the one on Fort.

+2

But the Food Lion on Bedford Ave is referred to by the locals on Rivermont as "Hood Lion."

A Trader Joe's would be nice. My mom occasionally goes to the one in (I think) Newport News if she is making something special for dinner.

I heard rumors when I was in town last week that the kroger on old forest rd is shutting down because of the new wal mart..not sure if its true but its what i heard.

I use to always go to the old forest kroger..it was old but got the job done and was only 2 minutes from our apartment. I miss the 10 cents off gas deal. I think winn-dixie down here just teamed with shell to do something similar but I hate winn dixie.

the moral of this post...even the worse kroger was better then the options I have here it seems. Everybody seems to love publix but it just seems a bit pricy to me...who knows

Cider Jim wrote:

Chris Lang wrote: The Kroger on Old Forest is much worse than the one on Fort.

+2

But the Food Lion on Bedford Ave is referred to by the locals on Rivermont as "Hood Lion."

That place is good for beer runs, and not much else.

Anyone else notice that a bunch of the Food Lions in the area are renovating? I don't know how long they'll hold on, Kroger beats them in everything, including price. The FL in Forest is dying a slow death since that Kroger went up. I think the only thing that keeps some of them open is the fact that they're in walking distance for a lot of people.

ALUmnus wrote:Anyone else notice that a bunch of the Food Lions in the area are renovating? I don't know how long they'll hold on, Kroger beats them in everything, including price. The FL in Forest is dying a slow death since that Kroger went up. I think the only thing that keeps some of them open is the fact that they're in walking distance for a lot of people.

QFT...when I lived in Boonsboro, the Food Lion was an easy walk, along with Starbucks, BotJ, and Dragon Garden or whatever that Chinese restaurant is in the Boonsboro Shopping Center.

I used to turn my nose up as a broke college kid at the Kroger on Old Forest a quarter century ago when I worked across the parking lot at WJPR Fox 21. Surely it was torn down and rebuilt sometime since then.

I highly doubt it sly, haha...it wasn't that terrible though...the outside was, but inside I think they had to have done some work

Chris Lang wrote:That place is good for beer runs.

Now there's a quote we don't read often on Flame Fans.

ALUmnus wrote:Anyone else notice that a bunch of the Food Lions in the area are renovating? I don't know how long they'll hold on, Kroger beats them in everything, including price. The FL in Forest is dying a slow death since that Kroger went up. I think the only thing that keeps some of them open is the fact that they're in walking distance for a lot of people.

They did that to all the FLs here in Richmond about a year ago. Then they started with the commercials on tv promoting their "new" stores. Give them 6 months and they'll be trashed again.

I have to go to that Food Lion on 29 all the time. I hate it but there's really no other place to go when I don't want to drive the extra few miles to Walmart. I think that's the only thing keeping that one afloat.

If we were to ever get a Wegmans...Kroger would lose the top spot immediately.

I voted for the Kroger in Forest, but I rarely ever go there. It's the nicest by far, but it would only be a third option for me due to location (Kroger on Timberlake less than five minutes away) and more expensive prices than Walmart. Yeah Walmart doesn't have all the different types of food bars and stuff like that, but when it comes to groceries, Walmart has everything I want/need and at lower prices.