My Giant

If you want to wait 45 minutes every time you want to pick up a prescription from the pharmacy or get dirty looks when checking out then this is the place for you!

One of my go to stores when I only need a couple things. I tend to shop at t**get for most of my items because it is cheaper.
However, this store has a nice parking lot. Clean aisles that aren’t overpacked unlike shoprite. They aren’t crazy busy which I like and they have a simple reward card to get deals. I use my family phone number from 20 years ago and it still works!
Overall…one of the best standard grocery stores in Wilmington.

This giant is probably my favorite super market. There’s many reasons to come to this store. The first and probably my favorite amenity of this store are the scanners they provide with a scan of your giant loyalty card at the door. With this you scan all your items as you shop and this way you can see how much your spending on your order and how much you save. They also have special deals for you on the scanner that you can scroll through. I have reusable bags that I bought at the giant that are insulated to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. I just put my groceries in them after I scan them, then at the end of my trip I go to the self checkout and scan a few things and my order pops up, I pay, then I’m out with no hassle with the exception for an occasional audit they periodically perform randomly to make sure everything in your cart has been scanned. The deli here has boars head lunch meat which is my favorite and most other supermarkets around here don’t carry it. They have consistently good deals on all sorts of things with your loyalty card and most of the staff is pretty helpful. They even recently put in a couple of aisles specifically for organic food if you like that sort of thing. It’s not perfect and sometimes the deli has a really long wait. They do have a kiosk that you can put your order in and they get it together while you shop. Sometimes that takes a while though. All in all it’s my go to for my grocery shopping.

Giant can be very high price at times. I shop there once in a while and whenever I do I try my best to shop for just what I need. Their sales are not always that great.

For me Giant doesn’t work. My vegetarian speciality items tend to have inflated prices here (sometimes $ 3 more!). I also find that I wander around aimlessly trying to find what I want/​need. Although I choose not to shop here, except for the occasional toiletry items (I try to buy in bulk and on sale) or a last minute produce stop, I know that Giant is a good, clean, and well-​run grocery store.
Pros:
[] Customer loyalty card allows you to build up points that can give you a percentage off of your gas purchase at Sunoco stations.
[] Nice® produce then some of the other supermarkets around. There are also machines there so you can weigh it yourself then a barcode prints out — cuts down on time getting checked out.
[] Speaking of cutting down on the time it takes to check out. You can do U-​Scan. All you do is get the U-​Scan guns and scan/​bag as you go. There are specially designated check-​out lines and you are good to go!
[] Seems to be a lot of deals to take advantage of.
Cons (just want to reiterate):
[] If you have a specialty diet (gluten-​free, vegetarian, dairy-​free) there are better (cheaper) options.

Conveniently located on my drive home to my parents. Bf and I stopped here 2 weekends ago to pick up some lunch, and found great sales on bay scallops ($ 10/​lb) and lobster tail ($ 5/​each), which was sweet and delicious!