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Grocers
Food Lion
www.foodlion.com
All open daily 7 am - 11 pm, except Pantops, open 24 hours
Willoughby
Square
971-5877
Forest Lakes
Shopping Center
978-1848
Pantops Shopping
Center
971-8451
32 Mill Creek
Dr.
295-6679
585 Branchlands Blvd
973-9424
Giant
www.giantfood.com/home
973-7860
Seminole Square
Open 24 hours Monday-Friday, weekends 7 am- 12 pm
244-4300
1900 Abbey Road
Rivanna Ridge (Pantops near DMV office)
Lots of specialty foods and gourmet meats.
Excellent produce selection. Bulk foods available. Known for having one of the best selections of Kosher food in Charlottesville.
Harris Teeter
www.harristeeter.com
Open 24 hours
Barracks Road Shopping Center
984-2900
Hollymead Town Center
872-0009
Good deli, prepared foods (sushi!). Excellent
selection of beer, wine, and cheese. First Citizens Bank inside. Five percent discount for students, faculty, and staff with ID.
Kroger
www.kroger.com
Open 24 hrs
Barracks Road
Shopping Center (recently remodeled)
293-5176
Rt. 29 North
and Hydraulic Rd.
295-8334
Rio Hill Shopping
Center
978-1311
Deli, bakery, fresh fish, cheese shop, and cafeteria. Special order, hard-to-find meats and seafood. Five percent discount for students, faculty, and staff with ID—you can sign up so your Kroger card automatically delivers the discount. Extensive stock of Virginia wines at good prices. 10% discount on 6 bottles purchased at a time.
Sam's Club
www.samsclub.com
978-2122
Rt. 29 North
Mon-Sat 10 am - 8:30 pm, Sun 10 am - 6 pm
Must be member ($35). Bulk food.
Whole Foods
www.wholefoods.com
973-4900
Rt. 29 North, Shopper's World
Mon-Fri 8 am - 7 pm, Sat 8 am - 5 pm
Excellent bakery and deli. Specializes in pesticide-free and organic produce. Usually has many samples throughout store. Bulk food available.
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Health Food
C'ville Market
www.cvillemarket.com
984-0545
206 Carlton Rd.
Mon-Fri 8 am - 7 pm, Sat 8 am - 5 pm
Best prices in Charlottesville on fresh
produce. Emphasizes local produce, but also has basics like
milk, bread, eggs, and delicacies such as Thai baby coconuts.
General Nutrition
Center
www.gnc.com/home/index.jsp?CID=
Fashion Square
Mall
973-4433
Mon-Sat 10 am - 9 pm, Sun 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Seminole Square
975-2950
Mon-Thu 9 am - 7 pm, Fri 9 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 - 5, Sun noon
- 5 pm
Integral Yoga
Natural Foods
293-4111
Preston Plaza (Preston Ave.)
Mon-Sat 9:30 am - 8 pm, Sun 11 am - 6 pm
Full-scale grocery of natural & organic
foods. Best organic produce in town, including local produce.
Bulk food. Nice cheeses. Student discount 10 percent.
Rebecca's Natural
Food
977-1965
Barracks Road Shopping Center
M-F 9 am - 8 pm, Sat-Sun 10 am - 6 pm
Good natural pharmacy. Their local organic
eggs are the best eggs in town.
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Gourmet & Seafood
Anderson's Carriage
Food House
www.andersoncarriagefoodhouse.com
970-2722
2046 Barracks Rd.
Across from Barracks Road Shopping Center
Mon-Sat 9:30 am - 7 pm, Sun 11 am - 6 pm
Fresh seafood daily,
butcher shop with choice meats, specialty deli, specialty
bakery, wine and cheese shop.
Boar's Head Inn
Store
972-2241
Off Rt. 250 West
Mon-Thu 9 am - 5 pm, Fri-Sat 9 am - 6 pm, Sun 9 am - 4 pm
Gift baskets, fine wines, specialty foods
& accessories.
Charlottesville Oriental Food Market
984-4903
206 Carlton Rd.
M-F 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 9 am - 5:30 pm
Chinese, Korean, and Japanese foods. Best prices in town. No credit cards.
C'ville Market
www.cvillemarket.com
984-0545
206 Carlton Rd.
Mon-Fri 8 am - 7 pm, Sat 8 am - 5 pm
Best prices in Charlottesville on fresh
produce. Emphasizes local produce, but also has
basics like milk, bread, eggs, and delicacies such as Thai
baby coconuts.
Foods of All Nations
www.foodsofallnations.com
296-6131
Ivy Rd.
Daily 7:30 am - 8 pm
Excellent assortment of hard-to-find ingredients.
Exotic foods. Good selection of wines. Catering service. In-store
computerized locator.
Market Street
Wine Shop
www.marketstreetwine.com
311 East Market
St.
979-WINE
Mon-Thurs and Sat 9:30 am - 8 pm, Fri 9:30 am- 9 pm, Sun noon - 6 pm
230 Shopper's World Court, Rt. 29
North
964-WINE
Mon-Sat 10 am - 8 pm, Sun noon - 6 pm
Good selection of wines, varied price range.
Weekly wine tastings, gourmet foods, huge selection of beer
and ales.
Tiffany's Seafood
Shoppe
293-5000
University Shopping Center, Ivy Rd.
Mon-Sat 11:30 am - 10 pm, Fri-Sat open until 10:30 pm, Sun
5 pm - 10 pm
World Market
www.worldmarket.com
295-6232
1615-A Emmett Street (next to Best Buy)
Mon. - Sat. 9:00 am - 9:00 pm
Sunday 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Has large assortment of wines and beers of the world.
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"The Grocer's Tale:
A Shopper's Guide to C'Ville"
"Harris Teeter, located closest
to the Law School in Barracks Road Shopping Center, is a big, clean
store with a lot of produce. Some of that stuff actually looks edible!
I might try some next week. The seafood and meat selection are adequate
and the deli is above par. Other highlights include a large wine
selection, a five percent discount for UVA students, and the privilege
of carrying around a ‘VIC'
card, which can make you feel very important."
"Giant, in Seminole Square, advertises ‘Fresh
ideas, great values.' The banner also proclaims ‘Open 24 hours,'
then proceeds to list the hours of operation by day. (?) The deli is
particularly commendable. My friend who eats produce gave this store
high marks in that area as well. The floral department is also nice."
"Whole Foods, located on Route
29, offers some wonderful whole grain breads, exotic foreign foods
(e.g. couscous), and many fat free items."
—Virginia Law Weekly
Virginia Law Families Tip:
Food Lion - Claims to be
lowest priced with some items posted with competitors' prices. But
most items are comparably priced. House-brand quality is only adequate.
We use Food Lion only for “crisis” needs because it is
the closest to our home.
Giant - Generally clean, well stocked. Good deli
and bakery. Produce quality fair, but some seems overpriced. Seafood
Department will steam purchases free while you wait. La Brea fresh-baked
breads are superb. Excellent savings with Giant Bonus Card. Salad bar
pretty good. Good selection of sale goods advertised in weekly flyer,
generally can plan a number of weekly meals to take advantage of sale
items. Stock up on pasta, spaghetti sauce, favorite cereals during
periodic 50 percent off specials (no reason to ever pay full price
for these). Buy meat in larger packs when on sale, freeze extra for
later use. Judicious card use and menu planning can realistically save
25-30 percent off regular prices.
Harris-Teeter - Clean and
well stocked. Salad bar is good, and produce generally very good.
Better sushi than Giant, and it's made fresh later in the day than
other supermarkets. Watch for frequent sales on rotisserie and fried
chicken. Particularly watch for sales on entire meals—they have translucent shopping bags
hanging on a rack next to the chicken. You get your choice of a rotisserie
chicken or 8 pieces of fried chicken, a package of Hawaiian rolls or
biscuits, and two 16-oz. sides (cole slaw, potato salad, or macaroni
salad) which you bag yourself for one price. (There's a bar code on
the shopping bag you can scan yourself in the self-service check out).
The meal easily feeds a couple of adults and kids. It is normally $8.99
but is frequently on sale with the discount card for $2-3 less than
that. Excellent baked goods, usually have free samples. Very good seafood
counter, will steam purchases for free. (Typically have great sale
on shrimp every two or three weeks and crab clusters several times
a year.) House brands products generally first-rate, especially those
identified as organic. Best house brand guarantee of any chain—if
you're not satisfied they'll give you your money back plus a free comparable
national-brand item. Often have unadvertised specials on house brands.
Usually have at least one brand of orange juice on sale (and house
brand is affordable even when not on sale). Weekly flyer generally
has fewer sale items than Giant (and many savings are only in the 10-20
percent range). Good store, but does not support advance menu planning/shopping
list development based on sale items as well as Giant. HT does give
5 percent discount with student ID. Once you figure out how to use
them, self-serve checkout lanes are time savers. Convenient location
to pick up something needed on the way home from school or to specifically
purchase advertised sale items.
Kroger - several convenient locations. Overall quality
is better than Food Lion, but not as high as Giant or Harris Teeter.
Baked goods are definitely not up to the standards of the latter. Sale
flyers are included weekly in local paper, but not in Washington Post.
House-brand items are of reasonable quality. Offers a 5 percent discount
with any UVA ID card (student, faculty, or staff).
Whole Foods - definitely
the place to shop if you've got a six-figure income. Great, healthy
food, but you pay for the quality. Some good buys, however, on bulk
foods including large selection of rice, grains, granola, etc. Many “exotic” items
can be found here. Salad bar is small and expensive but excellent
gourmet items not found at other stores. For a special treat on a
warm night, we get kids dollar menu items at McDonald's next door
and splurge on salad bar for parents. Seating areas available in
front of store (outside if weather is decent, nicely air conditioned
inside otherwise) and no one has ever said a word about the McDonald's
bag. Best supermarket sushi in town if it's still fresh when you get there.
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