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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. Aldi

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2. Byerly's

63 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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3. Coborn's

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4. Coopers County Market

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5. Costco

27 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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6. Cub Foods

187 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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7. Festival Foods

26 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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8. Fresh & Natural Foods

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9. Jerry's Foods

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10. Kowalski's Markets

43 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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11. Lakewinds Natural Foods

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12. Linden Hills Co-op

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13. Lunds

61 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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14. Rainbow Foods

131 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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15. Sam's Club

26 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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16. Target

97 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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17. Trader Joe's

44 ratings Twin Cities Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 11 local supermarkets.
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18. Village Market

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19. Walmart

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20. Wedge Co-Op

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Sample Subscriber Comments & Reviews for Supermarkets in the Twin Cities Area
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).

As You Can See Below, Some Supermarkets Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.

Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Supermarkets.

  • Subscriber from EDEN PRAIRIE, MN wrote about a local supermarket: Good deals on organic foods seems like an oxymoron but Lakewinds has some local, less-expensive..........
  • Subscriber from MAPLEWOOD, MN wrote about a local supermarket: We use this store especially for fresh fish and poultry........
  • Subscriber from ST PAUL, MN wrote about a local supermarket: Good prices on certain items. Store is not used for all of my shopping needs........
  • Subscriber from SAINT PAUL, MN wrote about a local supermarket: I shop mostly at Lunds. I like the variety and quality of products, the ways..........
  • Subscriber from PLYMOUTH, MN wrote about a local supermarket: Our local Cub store is a very good grocery with great produce, deli and meat..........
  • Subscriber from APPLE VALLEY, MN wrote about a local supermarket: We do most of our shopping at Rainbow in Apple Valley because their prices are..........
  • Subscriber from SAVAGE, MN wrote about a local supermarket: A bit further away; but fun to shop here........