Best Grocery Retail Options

Shoppers Food Warehouse May Be Gone, But What's Next?  

The top ten stores that might be worthy of a good look to replace Shoppers Food Warehouse are below. These ratings are based on 75,065 responses to the Consumer Reports 2018  Supermarkets Survey. These stores are rated by consumers' responses in the following Best Practices categories: Cleanliness, pricing, freshness, customer service and checkout speed. They are listed here in order of highest quality within those rating categories:

TOP 10

Wegmans  (90)

Trader Joe's  (87)

Market Basket (87)

Costco   (86)

The Fresh Market  (85)

Aldi's   (84)

Redner's   (81)

The Grocery Outlet   (80)

Roche Brothers   (80)

Hannaford   (80)

It’s worth noting that several of the stores listed above currently have locations in the county. As expansion deals are typically faster to resolve than new contracts, county leaders might be better served to leverage that potential time efficiency advantage by reaching out to those retailers first.

Other favored retail grocery brands included (in the order of best scores): Big Y, ShopRite, Sam’s Club, Whole Foods Market, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Fairway Market and Save-A-Lot, MARTIN’s Food Market and GIANT Food Stores.

Prince George’s County Farms

To its advantage, Prince George’s has some 381 farms according to the 2022 Census of Agriculture.

  With greater focus and coordination, the county’s local food resources could be “very helpful in combating food deserts by increasing access to fresh, healthy and locally grown food,” according to local state food experts