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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Who Rates Best (& Worst) in the Chicago Area? Now You'll Know.

Supermarkets

Dominick's and Jewel-Osco dominate the area's supermarket scene. Unfortunately, our recent price shopping reveals that both have substantially higher prices than a number of smaller area chains, and our customer surveys show neither particularly wows its customers when it comes to quality and service. On the bright side, in most parts of the area, consumers do have several low-cost, high-quality supermarket options.

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Name Areas with Store Locations Number of ratings Percent of surveyed customers who rated store "superior" on our survey for ...
Quality of fresh produce Quality of meats Variety of fresh produce Variety of other products Keeping things in stock Convenience of store layout Ease of finding prices Speed of checkout Staff helpfulness/ pleasantness Parking Help loading car Overall quality
1. A & G Fresh Market

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2. Aldi Foods

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3. Berkeley Finer Foods

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4. Berkot's Super Foods

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5. Blue Goose Super Market

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6. Butera Market

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7. Caputo's Fresh Markets

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8. Chipain's Market

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9. Costco

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10. County Fair Foods

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11. Dominick's

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12. Eurofresh Market

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13. Fairplay Foods

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14. Food 4 Less

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15. Fresh Market

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16. Freshline Foods

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17. Garden Fresh Market

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18. Happy Foods

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19. Jewel-Osco

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20. Joseph's Food Market

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21. Kramer Foods

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22. Market Place

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23. Meijer

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24. Michaels Supermarket

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25. Pan's Food Center

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26. Pete's Market

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27. Riverside Foods

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28. Sam's Club

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29. Shop & Save Market

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30. Strack & Van Til

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31. Sunset Foods

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32. Super Fresh

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33. Super Low Food Center

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34. SuperTarget

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35. Tischler Finer Foods

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36. Tony's Finer Foods

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37. Trader Joe's

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38. Treasure Island Foods

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39. Ultra Foods

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40. Valli Produce

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41. Wal-Mart Supercenter

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42. Walt's Food Center

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43. Westbrook Market

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44. Whole Foods Market

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45. Woodman's Food

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Subscriber Comments/Reviews
CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).


Subscriber from BUFFALO GROVE, IL wrote about SUPERTARGET, , on 11/20/09
Most items are usually priced much less than the standard supermarkets. When in the area..........
Subscriber from BUFFALO GROVE, IL wrote about TRADER JOE'S, , on 11/20/09
This store is great for many items such as inexpensive but tasty wines and other..........
Subscriber from PARK RIDGE, IL wrote about ALDI FOODS, , on 11/15/09
great prices. small selection.......
Subscriber from PARK RIDGE, IL wrote about HAPPY FOODS, , on 11/15/09
easier to navigate through. average pricing. smaller selection........
Subscriber from HUNTLEY, IL wrote about JEWEL-OSCO, , on 11/12/09
Excellent grocery store, but prices are a bit high........
Subscriber from LONG GROVE, IL wrote about SUNSET FOODS, , on 11/05/09
Sometimes prices seem high, but quality is great. Very crowded in the deli department and..........
Subscriber from LONG GROVE, IL wrote about DOMINICK'S, , on 11/05/09
Dominick's is not the store it used to be. Quality of food is down, variety..........
Subscriber from LANSING, IL wrote about STRACK & VAN TIL, , on 09/20/09
Regular prices are on the high side and sale items are usually high fat, high..........
Subscriber from LANSING, IL wrote about ALDI FOODS, , on 09/20/09
Not much variety and very few name brands, but the quality of what they do..........
Subscriber from BUFFALO GROVE, IL wrote about DOMINICK'S, , on 09/19/09
Since they remodeled the store the prices are higher and the lighting is inadequate.......
Subscriber from CHICAGO, IL wrote about JEWEL-OSCO, , on 09/15/09
Your basic large supermarket. Sales can be very good. Wish we still had Cub but..........
Subscriber from BARRINGTON, IL wrote about SUNSET FOODS, , on 09/11/09
great bakery, some seldom found products and great service but very expensive.......
Subscriber from CHICAGO, IL wrote about COSTCO, , on 09/09/09
MANY WANTED ITEMS ''NO LONGER IN STOCK..........
Subscriber from PALATINE, IL wrote about WHOLE FOODS MARKET, , on 09/09/09
Nice store, good quality, very expensive.......
Subscriber from BOLINGBROOK, IL wrote about WHOLE FOODS MARKET, , on 09/09/09
Very pricy.......
Subscriber from SKOKIE, IL wrote about JEWEL-OSCO, , on 09/09/09
Ho\igher prices than smaller, local grocery stores.......
Subscriber from CHICAGO, IL wrote about JEWEL-OSCO, , on 09/09/09
EXTREMELY RUDE AT CHECK OUT WHEN I FORGOT MY ''JEWEL CARD'' SO I LEFT ENTIRE..........
Subscriber from NAPERVILLE, IL wrote about BUTERA MARKET, , on 09/08/09
Prices are great here and they have a tremendous selection of international foods. There is..........
Subscriber from NAPERVILLE, IL wrote about JEWEL-OSCO, , on 09/08/09
Jewel has improved in the last few years with a good variety of organic products..........
Subscriber from DEERFIELD, IL wrote about GARDEN FRESH MARKET, , on 09/08/09
I go there for specific grocery items, not for general shopping. They have a great..........
Subscriber from DES PLAINES, IL wrote about TRADER JOE'S, , on 09/03/09
The best place for great quality food at very reasonable prices. Foods from all over..........
Subscriber from DES PLAINES, IL wrote about JEWEL-OSCO, , on 09/03/09
The Jewel prices are high compared to Walmart.Variety is getting better but not as good..........
Subscriber from DES PLAINES, IL wrote about CAPUTO'S FRESH MARKETS, , on 08/30/09
Love the Italian music Love the atmosphere Employees are courteous and friendly.......
Subscriber from CHICAGO, IL wrote about COSTCO, , on 08/26/09
We've shopped Costco for several years. It's daunting at first but once you establish a..........
Subscriber from LIBERTYVILLE, IL wrote about SUNSET FOODS, , on 08/26/09
I am so fortunate to be able to shop at Sunset Foods.......
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