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First encountered them in SE Idaho in '90. I guess that's the area where they began and they had a different name that sounded too much like walmart and they changed it shortly after walmart came to town.

Whenever I live within an hour's drive to get to one, I will do a lot of my shopping there. Some items aren't that great a deal compared to other local stores like cat food and litter, for example. For a wide variety of produce and other perishables, they are great.

I like that they are employee owned. When I was in college many classmates took jobs with them and stayed the whole time they were in school and had some handsome sums available when they left town due to profit sharing and other employee benefits.

The one the built near me, 45 miles, is large and brings in shoppers from four other counties. It's located about 1500ft from the Costco and there's a target in between. So if you have to go to Costco for some stuff but don't want things by the case you can go across the road and get smaller portions at Winco. That's what I do.