People shop for groceries so routinely that they often ignore small frustrations for a long time. Then eventually the patterns become impossible to miss: prices rising without warning, produce going bad too fast, checkout turning into a mess, store brands getting worse, staff being impossible to find, or delivery substitutions making no sense. A grocery store can seem fine on the surface and still wear people down in a dozen small ways every week. For shoppers who pay attention beyond location and habit, which grocery chains actually feel worth the money right now, and which ones seem to frustrate people more the longer they keep going back?