Anyone shop at WinCo grocery stores? [UPDATED OP] [View all]

Last edited Mon May 15, 2023, 03:42 PM - Edit history (2)

They seem to have many stores in a handful of states, including CA, and are employee owned. If you've shopped or do shop at one, what has your experience been like?

https://www.wincofoods.com/

ETA: one opened here a couple years ago, but it's farther into town and with the pandemic, we needed to be able to order online and pickup (this local WinCo doesn't offer online), so pretty much had to go with WalMart, even tho we boycotted them for many years. The other available stores are:

1.) the local grocery closest to us, is small with less selection and higher prices. I used to shop there but they never made their employees mask during the height of the pandemic so they lost our business over that.

2.) another local chain that's extremely expensive.

3.) Aldi's which I don't feel safe in due to the size of the store and not being able to avoid getting too close to people.

4.) Whole Foods is too expensive and I boycott all Amazon companies.

Even tho the virus is still being spread around here and masking has been problematic from the very beginning (very red state, sigh), I'm sick of dealing with WalMart's shit. We've decided to go back to shopping for our own groceries (still masking) and will have to drive a little farther into town to shop this WinCo. We were thinking about checking them out this week.

Really appreciate the responses so far!