How Clean Is Your Grocery Store

Dateline has released the rankings of the ten largest grocery chain in terms of cleanliness. The rankings were based on the number of critical violations per inspection. Her are the rankings from cleanest to dirtiest:

1. Food Lion - .80 violations per inspection (VPI)
2. Save-A-Lot - .90 VPI
2. Wal-Mart - .90 VPI
4. Costco - 1.2 VPI
4. Sam's Club - 1.2 VPI
6. Winn-Dixie - 1.4 VPI
7. Kroger - 1.7 VPI
8. Publix - 2.2 VPI
9. Albertsons - 2.4 VPI
10. Safeway - 2.5 VPI

So now you know where your grocery ranks, maybe. I've only ever shopped at two of these, Kroger and Publix. For the record, this won't change my shopping behavior, but then again, I've bought cheese out of a five gallon bucket on the street in a third world country, so I might be the wrong person to ask about the cleanliness of a store.