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Vote: Trader Joe's Or Costco, What's The Worst Discount Grocery?

In Patch's quest to name the worst grocery store in New York City, we'd like to know which discount grocery store you hate most.

NEW YORK CITY — What's more annoying, Hawaiian shirts or 200-gallon cans of tomatoes? Where are you most likely to find antique strains of botulism tinned in expired Spam? Which store makes you work the hardest and travel the furthest for a 10-cent bargain?

Which discount grocery store in New York City is the worst?

Patch is conducting a very important survey and we want you to help us figure out which is the worst grocery store in New York City. Every week, we're releasing a new poll in four different terrible grocery store categories: pricey, discount, chain and online.

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The winners of each mini-contest will then take on each other in our final worst grocery store in New York City competition in April.

The store named Worst In The City will win the honor of nothing.

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Last week, we asked you which is the worst pricey grocery store in New York City. This week, we pit the bargain-promising, questionable-meat selling, discount groceries against one another. You have one week to decide.


Photos courtesy of GoogleMaps: Trader Joes/Dec. 2017, Fairway Market/Aug. 2017, Costco/Aug. 2017, Food Bazaar/Sept. 2017.

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