Grocery habits hide a lot because people get used to small annoyances until one day the pattern is too obvious to ignore. Freshness, stock consistency, sane substitutions, checkout speed, and whether store brands still feel worth buying matter way more to me than ads or loyalty slogans. I’ve seen people compare those exact tradeoffs under top grocery stores in usa once the weekly routine starts feeling more expensive and more irritating than it should. Chains that hold up usually win on consistency, while the frustrating ones slowly wear people down with the same small problems over and over.