You either love grocery shopping or hate it. (Or you think it’s OK.) But no matter what, we all have that one grocery store we love more than all the others.
Maybe they have a certain item you can’t buy anywhere else. Or the cashiers know you by name and buy your kid’s Girl Scout Cookies. Or maybe your favorite place to shop is simply the closest one to home.
We wrangled together an unofficial, slightly biased, likely controversial list of the top 10 grocery stores in town. Before you get all heated that we got them all wrong, please read our explanations for each one. (We have reasons!) Then you can let us know what YOUR top 10 would be, and why, by emailing me at rtodd@cincinnati.com.
For our top 10, we considered local significance, variety of items, freshness, popularity, quirkiness and the ever-important “can’t get it anywhere else” appeal. We have local brands, national juggernauts and even one you might not consider a grocery store at all. You know, because.
Count down with us in the gallery at the top of the page as we go through the ranks of the top 10 grocery stores in Cincinnati.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Top 10 grocery stores in Cincinnati, ranked! (Kroger’s not No. 1, sorry)
Reporting by Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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