Do you feel that this will impact you?

My wife has always used all of the resources at her disposal to keep the food budget manageable.  This includes using the commisary but she comparison shops between three to four stores.  It sounds like a lot of work at first but after the first few weeks, you get to know what items are cheaper at which location.  After that, it's just a matter of watching the ads for the really good sales.

Unless they've changed the Commissary system since I retired in 1992, I'd say no.  Since 1992 I have never set foot in one.  In my entire career the only time my wife or I shopped in a commissary was when we were stationed in Germany.  Although all our bakery and fresh vegatables and most our staples were purchased on the local economy.  In the US, I was never stationed in a location where the commissary was even close to the savings we'd get off post.  My mom shopped at the Ft. Carson Commissary (my dad died on active duty) all while I was growing up.  She swore by it.  When I got out of Basic Training I was stationed at Ft. Carson (6/32 Armor) for 2 1/2 years.  When I got married, my mother took my wife shopping at the commissary and what she would normally purchase was about $35 more at the commissary.  Not much you say, well a private E-2 making less than $325 a MONTH before taxes, that's a lot of money.  Between the surcharge and the tip for the baggers there was never any savings over the economy, not CONUS...

It will not impact me at all. I haven't lived within 50 miles of a commissary in the last 9 years.

I have yet to see any reason why we couldn't meet the need using NAF. AAFES and NEX seem to do an adequate job providing gasoline, clothing, furniture, electronics, even groceries on a limited scale. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch for them to expand to fill the gap if we eliminated DeCA.

I have saved tons shopping at the local commissary in my city. The prices especially for fish and chicken are significantly less compared to local grocery stores. There is no contest between them. I save over $50+ a month shopping at the commissary buying meat alone.

Sir, I respectfully disagree with your assessment. There are plenty of shopping options out there but the commissary does provide quite a bit of savings for service-members, even with the surcharge tacked on. My family and I spend quite a bit on food (I have two teenage boys) and we DO see the difference between the commissary, Walmart, HEB, etc. We do look carefully at prices and know, as SFC Baber stated, where to shop for specific items. We do use Sam's Club for bulk items, which we compare also. If the commissaries were to close, it would hurt not just my family but many others. We would either be spending at least an extra $100 on items or we would be eating less healthy to conserve costs. I'm sorry but that is just unacceptable.