Grocery Stop Between SFB and DW Open Late?

[Hawkeye314]

We arrive late on a Saturday into Sanford and are renting a car to drop off the next morning at the car care center. Is there a good, fast and inexpensive grocery stop that is open late on the way from Sanford to DW? We probably won't get out of the Sanford airport until after 10:30. Is there ar 24-hour walmart on the way?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Hawkeye314]

Bumping and looking for help!

 

[propchick]

I still haven't gotten it straight in my head exactly where Sanford is, so I'm not sure what road you'll be taking.

At International Drive and Universal Blvd. there's a very safe 24-hour Walgreen's with an expanded grocery section. They aren't the highest prices around, but they aren't the cheapest, either.

West from I-Drive and from I-4 on Sand Lake Road (about two minutes from either) there's another, cheaper 24 hour Walgreen's, and a 24 hour Albertson's Grocery Store that caters to mostly locals, and is cheap as can be. (The Albertson's is a little hard to see, but it's in the Dr. Phillips Marketplace strip mall, on the northwest corner of the Dr. Phillips/Sand Lake intersection.)

Down Universal or I-Drive (it's between the two) right next to The Mercado is a sometimes 24-hour Gooding's grocery store. They are very unpredictable about whether they'll be open 24 hours or not, and cater exclusively to tourists, so they have a very limited selection of sky-high priced groceries.

I know there are WalMart Supercenters down closer to WDW, but I don't know their locations, pricing, etc. Perhaps someone else can help you with that?

 

[Ted and Holly]

As you are driving out of SFB, if you take I4 instead of the Greenway (417) Before you reach the entrance to I4, you will go through a populated/developed part of Sanford. We stopped at an Albertsons at about 10:30pm two years ago. If its still there, it was on the left, a few miles from the airport.


Holly

 

[Hawkeye314]

Great, thanks! I'll try to locate the address for the Albertsons and do a mapquest search.

Thanks!