Employee-owned WinCo grocery stores set excellent example

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2. We live about a mile from a Winco, and 1/2 mile from corporate headquarters

While we do shop for some of the basics there, the produce and meat is definitely not up to standard. Sometimes the produce even appears like it took a battering before getting to the bins. But for canned and packaged goods, they're hard to beat pricewise.

Because they do generally have the lowest prices, they also attract a large crowd on food stamp day and have lobbied unsuccessfully to get food stamps distributed over a period of days in order to deal with it. We have noticed that they have a tendency to jack up prices significantly on a lot of items just before food stamp day and then drop them back down afterwards. I appreciate that they are employee owned and want to gain a profit, but this just sends the wrong signal to me.