When and where to buy groceries

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I am succeeding in adjusting the frequency of my grocery shopping down to weekly mostly by means of a range of vegetables: I eat the more perishable, like broccoli or mushrooms, earlier in the week, then move on to carrots, sweet potatoes, onions, and suchlike, with canned vegetables as fallback. However, I find myself visiting multiple stores. For example, yesterday I visited both Kroger and Food City. Kroger does not have egg salad or the vegetarian Indian meals I like but Food City is poor at stock control, not even having offered parchment paper the past two visits, and it does not carry the berry granola that I like. I have yet to visit Aldi, maybe next weekend, but my memory of one in Boston does not suggest that it will stock all I want.