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| - I have shopped at this location since they opened and yes, if you shop carefully, you can find some great prices. What WinCo counts on however is that the majority of people don't shop carefully, so like other retailers they make up for the low-priced items by gouging you with some items that are priced 2-3 times what every other stores charges.
One of the ways WinCo can sell cheap is logical, they have to buy cheap, so you will often find damaged goods on the shelf, wilted and rotting produce and perishables that are near or past their sell date. Here are some pricing examples within a 2 day period: a 5 pound bag of potatoes was twice as much as a 10 pound bag at Albertsons. A container of Dreyer's ice cream was twice as much as Fry's. Today there were 3 brands of the identical snack cracker ... two were major brand names and the third was WinCo's store brand. Guess which was most expensive? Yes, WinCo's own store brand. WinCo also thrives on the Costco mentality that the largest size should be the most economical. That's what they want you to think, but many times I have seen the cost-per-ounce substantially higher on the largest size.
I don't expect any level of customer service or friendliness when I shop at WinCo and I get exactly what I pay for. Employees are constantly stocking the shelves but will rarely if ever move out of the way for a customer. Checkers rarely look at you or chat and often all you hear is an uninspired thank you after you pay them.
As far as the "employee owned" thing that WinCo touts, just for grins ask an employee about that sometime. I did. I got a "yeah right, don't even go there" response. Doesn't sound like something they want to brag about, does it? And if this is such a great place to work, how do they explain that I rarely see the same employee's faces twice, there are only few faces I recognize from week-to-week whereas there are employees at the local Albertsons who have been there for years and many know me by name. I would think an "employee-owned" business would have much less turnover.
BTW, on the subject of "employee owned" that WinCo yammers about non-stop, one of their people told me that they get minimum wage, minimum benefits and are not able to unionize because their employer classifies them as "owners". Doesn't sound very classy to me.
I wonder about WinCo's overemphasis on their bulk section, which coincidentally is the same thing that WinCo plays up so much at social media sites. A large part of the bulk foods is candy.
WinCo had 100% of my business since they opened this store. Now I shop carefully and if the quality is bad or the price too high I just keep walking and get those items at Fry's, Albertsons or WalMart.
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