2022 Grocery Outlet [California, Oregon, Washington, etc., etc.]

I bought a bag of the KA 00 at the Folsom St. Sacramento GO when I was down there a few weeks back. Haven’t had a chance to use it yet (I usually get lazy and do TJ’s ready-made pizza crusts), but this is a great price from what I remember when I was buying specialty flour 3 - 4 years ago (pre-kid #2). This Sacramento GO FWIW seems to have consistently good selection in wine/beer, it’s down the street from the regionally famous Corti Bros, and I even skipped a pilgrimage there this time because the beer selection was good enough at GO for me to stock up – in particular, they had a set of Solid Ground Brewing 16oz 4-packs for … ~$11.99?, a brewery from which I haven’t found a bad style yet.

I am super curious to learn more about how the wine/beer stocking works. The Richmond, Novato, and Petaluma stores all seem to have great selection (supposedly the Petaluma store is known for having an excellent buyer), but I presume there’s probably a list somewhere they’re all buying off of? I’m tempted to find the San Rafael buyer and tip them off to the GO Wine comment threads so they pick up better stuff. :slight_smile:

I have found egg prices highly variable – I haven’t seen eggs go up (much more) at Costco (~$7 for 2 dozen, although they are now limit 2) or TJ’s (maybe went up a dollar or .50?), where I frequently buy eggs. I used to buy them regularly at the San Raf GO (they generally stock Petaluma Egg farm eggs) but they have been steadily raising prices on them even before the recent avian flu issues. I have definitely been a bit shocked when I see the egg prices in regular super markets. In fact, I’ve been shocked overall at prices, I feel like Costco, TJ’s and GO (where I mostly buy groceries) have been largely insulated from some of the inflation, or are good at tricking me with their pricing strategies (e.g. nothing is ever really more than 3.99 at TJ’s – with some exceptions, e.g. nuts, oils, alcohol – and if they moved from 1.99 to 2.99 I probably don’t notice). I do feel like GO is finally catching up with the overall inflationary trends, stuff “feels” more expensive there lately.

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