I tried chicken salad from Costco, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, and Whole Foods. There was only one I’d buy again.

• I tried chicken salad from Costco, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, and Whole Foods.
• The Wegmans option was pretty expensive and didn’t have a ton of flavor.
• However, I enjoyed the Whole Foods chicken salad, which was scooped fresh at the deli counter.

I never enjoyed chicken salad until I started working at a deli in my early 20s. It quickly became a lunch staple for me, even though I had so many other sandwich options at my fingertips.

Nowadays, I usually get my chicken salad fix at home when I have leftover grilled or rotisserie chicken. However, I wanted to see if I could find something worthwhile at the supermarket to enter my lunch rotation.

So, I visited four major supermarket chains — Costco, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, and Whole Foods — and bought premade chicken salad at each one.

I taste-tested all four with some crackers and ranked them from worst to first. Here’s how they stacked up.