Nearly 38% Agree This Grocery Store Has The Worst Wine Selection

With hard seltzer making waves summer after summer, it's easy to forget the affordable wine trend that began a few years previously. In 2018, CNN covered how big brand supermarkets and retailers had begun stocking their shelves with lower-priced wines that claimed to taste like more expensive bottles, a move inspired by the popularity of Trader Joe's "Two Buck Chuck." Now that this trend has become an established practice, we can evaluate which stores have offered a good alternative to the pricier wine store and, perhaps more importantly, which have not.

Mashed created a survey to see which grocery store had what people considered the worst wine selection. 646 Americans responded.

Of those responses, Trader Joe's was the least disliked. Only 7.89% of people thought their wine selection was the worst. This could be due to the cultishness Trader Joe's tends to inspire, or their reputation for delivering quality products at low prices. After them comes Whole Foods, with 8.98% of voters disliking their wine most. In third place is Target — the store received 17.18% of the survey's ire, meaning twice as many people found their wine selection unfavorable compared to the people who disliked TJ's or Whole Foods.

In second, we have a surprise. Aldi's wine selection has been deemed the worst by 28.02% of voters. Aldi, like Trader Joe's, has a devoted following, but clearly it's not because of their wine. However, when it comes to the grocery store brand with the number one worst wine selection, there is no competition.