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| - They have an amazing bulk foods section. All kinds of grains, beans, legumes, dried fruits, nuts, baking supplies, and even less basic foods like cereals, granola, and wrapped candies. Also bulk honey and agave, much cheaper than you pay for bottled, and the honey is simply amazing.
And, best of all, bulk spices. They seem to go through them fast enough that they stay fresh, and they are good quality and many times cheaper than you will find spices anywhere else.
Now for the bad (or, at least, the somewhat annoying): they refuse to take the tare weight off bulk goods, so you can't bring your own containers to put them in. I'd love to be able to bring a jar and fill it with their delicious honey, but then I'd have to pay for the honey and the weight of my jar. Glass jars weight quite a bit. So instead, I have to fill a little plastic round with honey to buy it and then I have the extra work of transferring it and the extra waste of the plastic container. Every other store I've ever been to that sells bulk goods will weigh your jar and take off the tare, but Winco hasn't figured this out. The cashiers will look at you like you're crazy and say it's impossible.
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