"The best grocery store chicken is the one along your way home, so let’s hope you pass a Bristol Farms, because their lemon pepper bird is elite. Due credit to Gelson’s, Lazy Acres, Whole Foods, and Erewhon for their respectable heat-lamp chickens (and Costco for being the cheapest), but it’s the crackly skin, good flavor, and juicy-not-rubbery meat that gives this local chain an edge. And considering Bristol skews gourmet, $13.49 for an organic whole chicken is a solid value." - brant cox