Marina (Monterey Bay):
Icelandic Provision plain skyr 24oz $2.99
Good Cottage Cheese double cream and low fat $2.49 (thanks for recommending @anaxgorous, it’s delicious!)
Cowgirl Creamery Mt Tam 8 oz $8.99 expires late Feb
Kent mangos $5/5
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Pacifica, CA
Who knew Hooters had a line of retail booze? That Wedemeyer is good sourdough for sandwiches.
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Hello, I’m new here.
I just found you guys and see that you post about some of the same type of things I get excited to find at Grocery Outlet. I’m in Western Washington, and regularly visit two GOs and hit a third on occasion. My store is Renton Highlands, I also go to Puyallup South Hill every-other weekend with my mom, and hit up the 72nd Street store in Tacoma mostly for the wine sale. They will often have inventory of wines that have flown off the shelf at the other locations. They are set up with a small wine section and they have a mishmash of wine displayed all along the top of the frozen foods chest freezer dividers and more end-cap displays than other stores as well. It’s a real mixed-bag there, and feels like a treasure hunt during the 20% off in spring and fall. South Hill has the most varied inventory of the three stores, and is by far the most likely to have higher quality products with surprisingly low prices. Also this store seems unique in utilizing interim price cuts on fresh products, instead of holding steady at full price up until the expiration date and then switching to 5/$1.00 or whatever. I can be swayed by a $2.00 price drop.
I stopped at the Renton store Thursday night. This store lacks a lot in basics. Like finding pastured or organic eggs would be an event, and organic milk is everyday priced at $4.99 per half gallon, where the same brand is everyday priced $4.29 in Puyallup. So the only things I noted on this trip were the Dunkin Donuts Cold Brew Packs at blowout 10 for 98 cents (that’s 8.46 oz of coffee for 10 cents, expiration date Jan 31). Also I was excited to see the Stryve Biltong back in stock, unil I looked closer and saw it was the hickory flavored jerky in an 8 oz bag. I ran it up to the front for a price check and then ran it right back to the shelf after hearing that it is $9.99. The 4oz bags of the sticks for $2.99 we saw all summer long were a screaming deal, but this one is a resounding “no thanks”. The Pasta Di Gragnano Italian pasta (made in Italy, expires 3/2024 this is a beautiful pasta) penne and the spaghetti were back in stock at $1.99. The Muir Glen organic crushed tomatoes 28oz were still in stock at $.99. expires 3/2023. Housewares has a few more Instant Pot brand accessories in stock.
Mom and I are going to South Hill store today and I will report back. I’m excited to find you guys. Let me know if I do anything that breaks etiquette.
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Welcome - nice run down!
Hi, RacerX,
Welcome.
My most productive times at Grocery Outlet in Oakland, CA have been finding bargains in the cheese section where I found Rogue Creamery and other award-winning products at bargain prices but it takes skill to read the labels carefully. In the rest of the Deli section you will find steals on products that may have only a few left until their “Best By” dates so those are the itmes that I make sure to consume first.
There are several posters from Washington State who review Grocery Ooutlet wines available in their state. Here’s a link -
Also here’s a link to the Grocery Outlet from 2022 that you can review to learn about the kind of specials that you can expect this year -
When I find something interesting, I alsways list the price and serving size so a fair comparison can be made.
Good luck.
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Great, thanks, I did read the entire 2022 thread before celebrating the fact that I have found my people!
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There’s a PNW section too.
Dive right in.
We try to have fun 
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Welcome! I think I’ve been to the Renton store and found it nicer than my usual Burien store - a little higher end for the Eastside demographic. The one in Black Diamond is nice, too. I don’t know if it’s make a special trip nice, but a good stop for snacks on the way to Mt Rainier.
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Okay, I’m not sure this is formatting correctly with the pictures, but these are from today at South Hill in Puyallup, WA. Not pictured (okay they are pictured now below this text, clearly I don’t know how to post here yet, sorry), are some dairy deals like $1.50 large full-fat cottage cheese from Breakstone, Castello smoked Danish-style fontina cheese (exp 3/2023) 7oz for $2.99, Taza Deliciously Dark 70% and Wicked Dark 95% w/almond organic chocolate bars 2.5oz for $2.50 (exp 07/2023). I’m excited for the pasta sauces pictured, as they all have super clean ingredients with no oil or sugar (best by date is Jan 2024). Funny that the clearance price here for those cold brew coffee packs is $.97 each vs. the 10 for $.98 at the Renton store. Each box has 4 filter packs and I’m tossing some of the packages I picked up, at the lower price, in the freezer to use later in the year for camping coffee. Eggs were scarce, limited to 2 cartons per customer, and nothing organic or pasture raised so I zipped on by. Sorry for the picture quality. The swiss cheese is 4.44 pounds.
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I keep meaning to check out the Burien store and the new one in Milton, and thanks for the tip about Black Diamond. That could be a fun trip when the weather is good! I go to the Port Angeles store in the summer (the Sequim store closed last year) and it’s a solid stop for camping food and surprise items that have been sold out at the other locations for months. The worst one I’ve seen is the Bellevue Crossroads store. I swear I’ve tried it 3 or 4 times and have never seen anything priced at a savings. I thought the same thing you said, that it would be catering to a different demographic; but so far strangely enough the Puyallup store stocks the most higher quality items I’ve seen from any of the different stores.
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Went to the South San Jose location last week. They had more staples than usual, such as Mazola cooking oil for 4.99, spam for 3.99, KA all purpose flour (5.99? can’t remember), and Pacific chicken broth. The prices were better than regular prices at other grocery stores but not huge discounts. I also noticed that a lot of the Asian groceries were not cheaper than they are at 99Ranch, so it pays to know your reference prices.
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Santa Cruz, Morrell Lard, 2.99.
First time I’ve seen this product at GO
ZPasta Conchiglie - Bronze Cut Artisan Pasta, 2.99
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It looks like GO is making progress with the functionality of their phone app, which was hastily rolled-out solely in Washington State at the end of last year and was worthless. It showed the lowest “deal” prices for items unavailable at our stores, the Clerks and Managers at the stores had never heard of it, and the $5 off coupon within the app caused the cash register to freeze-up requiring the voiding of the entire receipt and then a Manager’s override in order to pay. Anyone wish they were with me on that visit?
So now it is looking much more functional. The items from the weekly ad show up correctly and can be tagged and added to your own shopping list in the app, to review at the store. There’s a “browse items” function that lets you see items and prices, there’s no way to search yet but still handy. Under “digital offers” there’s a new $5 off $25 coupon good through Feb 27.
Each user gets their own digital “Wow! Card” and there is a running total at the top of the screen that says “you’ve saved $00.00”. So it looks like scanning the card allows you to track your savings (unhelpful if they are using their inflated comparison prices, but whatever) and also keeps your purchase history (helpful) on the app. There is a section for Wow Alerts, and I’m curious as to how this will be used. It would be excellent if they are able to match it with items actually available at the store, particularly items that I’ve purchased in the past.
So that’s the scoop on the app, hopefully fully functional when it is available in all states.
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Visited GO downtown San Jose (Santa Clara St) last weekend. Selection was different than GOs closer to the coast–evidence to add to theory that stores stock for their customers. My gems included:
- La Tourangelle organic ghee (product of New Zealand, exp Dec 2024)
- lately ubiquitous, always welcome 99 cent cans of 28oz Muir Glen organic tomato (this one’s crushed with basil)
- Various Talenti gelato, $1.99
No Rogue Creamery, @zippo1–I keep checking 
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The 2023 Spring 20% Off Wine Sale is rumored to start on Monday, April 3 and last 9 days, I’ll post about it again when I can get confirmation.
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Santa Cruz GO
Chameleon Cold Brew, $6. Decent cold brew that I usually see for around $11
Mezzetta Plum Tomato Marinara, $3. This is great stuff. I bought a half dozen
Divum Pinot Noir, Monterey, 2017, $6. Great value pinot.
Eleones Olive Oil, Cretian, $15. Single origin. I rarely find any olive oil worth purchasing at my GO (mass produced blends from olives sourced worldwide), this appears to be an exception.
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The Greek olive oil is at Richmond GO too. And Its Its again. Plus a lot of gardening tools.
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Welcome RacerX!
I am a huge fan of the Muir Glen tomatoes - fabulous in soup or blended make a NYC style pizza sauce - https://leitesculinaria.com/277675/recipes-new-york-style-pizza.htmlO
My GO in Los Angeles recently had Hunts organic fire roasted diced tomatoes, 14.5 oz, exp. date May 1, 2023, two cans for $1. They are not a petite dice but? Are very tasty!
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Watsonville (Monterey Bay, CA):
- Tillamook 2012 extra sharp white cheddar wedges, 18oz $7.99–sharp, crumbly, crunchy crystals. Also a smaller size.
- 6 varieties of Kimlan Soy Sauce, including alternate grain and Super Special $1.99 and $2.99. Their website doesn’t show all the bottles so maybe these are closeouts? See pics and description here:
https://www.malafood.com/en/the-complete-guide-to-soy-suaces - Large variety of kikoman products, ponzu sauce, anchovy sauce, etc.
- Several varieties of Rao’s jarred sauce
- Quorn products in the deli
A few items I saw at San Jose last week were double the price today in Watsonville.
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