Sloppy Food Section "Journalism" _Chicago Tribune

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:05:54 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"

You make Chicago shopping sound rather dismal. Making your statements based on Treasure Island, Walgreens, and those Asian shops makes your view rather limited. Sheesh! Walgreens isn't even a food store. Being upset about your limited selection based on where you live is as ridiculous as someone from Iowa complaining about the lack of fresh seafood. If you like living deep in the city EVERYTHING will cost more.

And you thought the "dude's" comments were laughable?

Jewel and Dominicks may be the biggest, but I don't know any foodies who would go there for anything other than a last minute emergency. If you don't have decent shopping either move or take a short trip to a real grocery store. There's many great stores that didn't even make the list you posted. Many of which are far more crowded than the biggies because of the value and quality they offer. There's a store on Harlem and Ogden called Berwyn Fruit market. As a whole you'll probably save 40-50% of your grocery total. Even beer is cheapest there. Milk is always $1.99 a gallon. There's a Jewel less than a block and it doesn't seem to hinder them one bit! Granted that's outside city limits, but you did refer to the Metro area.

LOL...$60.00 a week? Maybe someone should open up a store right next to you to gobble up that big budget. That's hardly enough to do a decent job of entertaining.

I've been to at least one location of all but Caputo's. TJ's is the only one that's even close to good. But they seemed to do something to please the test staff. The biggies lure people who buy frozen junk. Not those of us who make real food. Jewel just sent out a flyer called the "freezer sale." 10 pages of nothing but freezer goods. We won't be getting anything from there.

The rest of the article including all the "reader letters" and the "you also loved" section is where the real information was. But actually even they missed a few gems. Did you read that far in the article?

I buttumed JOE CAPUTO & SONS FRUIT MARKET was spinoff of Angelo Caputo's which should have been on the top of the list. I called them and it's not. The other Capoto's (Angelo) originally on Harlem will save you lots of money. Meat and cold cuts are half the price of the biggies.

Obviously Jewel and Dominicks are terrible for anything unless you want cheap frozen pizzas

TJ's is ok, but not a one stop shop.

Someone in the letters mentioned Tischler's. We head out that way about once a month. Great meat. They have Daisy hot dogs for half of what Jewel has them for.

McChesney and Miller in Glen Ellyn didn't make the list but has wonderful meat for about what you'd pay for the garbage at Jewel.

Blue Goose made the list luckily. It's been a long time since I've been there but it's a good little store.

All Woodman's locations are awesome. Employee owned so they have good attitudes. The meat is exceptional and about half of the big chains.

Casey's in Naperville and Kramer foods in hinsdale are both good but not the price bargain some of the others are.

As I said before Berwyn fruit market is good. Springbrook market In Carol Stream is a scaled down version of Capoto's. Eurofresh Market in Palatine is good but it gives me the creeps because the KFC murders happened on what was an outlot. Now it's torn it down. Westbrook Market in Westmont has a better selection of Asian veggies than most Asian markets do. Ultra foods in Forest Park always has a least one kind of roast for well under 2 bucks a pound. The quality is always good. That's where I get my Dago Beef meat.

The two big chains may have the biggest market share, but there's certainly many other choices. You must be very lazy. You're commentary was sillier than the article. If you don't like your choices move or quite unpleasant womaning. As much as you hated Sheryl, you sound just like her.