According To Food Website, Utah This Is the Place…To Shop

It's funny how much we can find to disagree and argue about in our lives. And most of it is pretty trivial.

Take our house, for example. Here in town, my wife prefers to do grocery shopping at store X while on those rare occasions I wander the grocery aisles, I tend to do it in store Y.

Now this has never caused us to come to blows or any kind of heated argument, at least as far as I remember.

Nor is it that we don't switch places and go to the different stores. I guess it's more habitual.

And, of course, there has been more than a few occasions where I wish I had the option to shop at store Z.

Anyway, the folks at the Daily Meal.Com have come up with what they consider the best grocery store in each state.

Before I tell you where Daily Meal thinks is the best place to buy food, let me just say that going to shop – groceries or other items – is becoming more of an ordeal to me.

First, there's the cart situation. If you're lucky, you get one that rolls straight. I can't recall the last time I had a non-wobbly cart. More often, you’re wrangling a cart that veers left like it’s trying to escape. Then comes the obstacle course of slow-moving shoppers, lost children, and, my favorite, the one person who parked their cart sideways in the middle of an aisle while contemplating peanut butter brands like it’s a life-altering decision.

The grocery list, no matter how carefully crafted, becomes useless when you discover the store has rearranged everything. The bread is where the frozen peas used to be, and now you have to embark on a cross-store expedition to locate the milk. By the time you find everything, you’ve impulse-bought a family-sized bag of tortilla chips and a candle that smells like “Autumn Nostalgia.”

The checkout process is its own battle. The person ahead of you waits until the last possible moment to start looking for their wallet, while your ice cream is melting. Even worse, someone pulls out their checkbook! That can make a grown person cry.

The self-checkout, meant to be faster, inevitably scolds you for an "unexpected item in bagging area," which is just the item you scanned two seconds ago.

And then you run across the parking lot hoping you don't get blocked by a runaway shopping cart.

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Anyway, according to the folks at Daily Meal.Com the place to go grocery shopping in Utah is Harmons. Now, I have shopped at Harmons but only on occasion, as we have never lived all that close to one of their stores. But, according to the Daily Meal

Along with great weekly ads and a wide variety of local products, artisanal breads, and baked goods, Harmons sells beef from renowned producers including Double R Ranch, which provides beef to some of America's leading steakhouses.

So, there you have it, expert advice on where to grocery shop. Still, if you're like me it won't matter where you shop because inevitably when you get home and unload the goodies you realize that the “one thing” you stopped to get? Yeah, it's still at the store.