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| - Well, I went into a WinCo store for the first time ever last night and lived to tell about it. I spent a couple hours wandering around looking at everything and I was pretty impressed. They have a wide selection of many items for excellent prices. They didn't have everything I was looking for but they had more than the average store. I have been looking for Yuban instant coffee for months and no one seemed to carry it. I didn't really want to have to order it online and pay shipping but I've been looking in every grocery store, department store, drug store Etc that I've been in for many months and finally hit the jackpot at the WinCo. I always thought it was the best instant coffee I ever tasted. (I used to use instant coffee all the time and then many years ago I switched to brewed coffee but do like to keep instant around for backup so I was glad to find it. I hope it's as good as I remember after all that effort to find it.)
They just opened stores in AZ a couple years ago. It's kind of like a Costco or a Smart & Final, huge, discount prices, bulk deals. They have a lot of bulk spices and grains, etc, survival foods like canisters of dried milk, dried eggs , dried honey, and such. It seemed like they had just about everything but I did not find any Big Red pop, diet or regular, no Vernors, and a few other things. And I saw a few things that I had looked at recently in other stores and knew that the price at the other stores was a little bit cheaper but many things where WinCo is cheaper. Oh, and they still had Egg Nog (1/18/17)! But I didn't need any yet and don't have any room in the fridge to buy something I'm not out of.
I wasn't crazy about having to bag my own groceries. Fortunately I didn't buy a lot so I just put the few food items in one bag and the non-food items in another bag so my food wouldn't smell like soap. They also didn't take credit cards which I would have preferred. Probably a cost saver.
There is no doubt I'll be back next time I need some items.
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