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| - This place is amazing.
Amazing selection of stuff (ethnic, produce, meats, deli items, bakery, and ICE CREAM). They sell several regional brands from the Pacific NW, I've been told, if you are a home-sick Seattle-ite who has relocated here.
AMAZING PRICES.
Seriously, it's like Costco, except you can buy in quantities that don't require you to bring a tow-along trailer with you to the store.
You need to be selective with produce sometimes, because some of it can be ripe in the store, so I find it doesn't last long at home. I've noticed this mostly with tomatoes and asparagus. Beautiful in the store, but you'd better plan on eating them right away.
The inside is warehousy, but much nicer than Food City, Food4Less, and Wal-Mart.
My only 2 minor annoyances are:
1) You can only walk in one direction (down the Specials Hall of Fame) when you enter the store. If I want to pick up a loaf of bread and some eggs, it'll take me a few minutes just to get there.
2) This place can get seriously crowded. Like ditch the cart at the end of the aisle so you can weave down the aisle to pick up what you need and bring it back. Good news is that it's (also amazingly) open 24hrs/day and it can be very manageable at off-peak times.
I find myself wondering how they can stay in business. So much stuff and such low prices in an industry that I know operates on razor-thin margins...
TIP #1: Self-checkout machines are super-easy to use (even for produce) and rarely back up.
TIP #2: If you get them when they're fresh, their bagels are excellent!!
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