WinCo Foods

It is hard to find gluten-free food there

WinCo is an employee owned and operated West Coast grocery store chain, and I expect the Chico chain is similar to many others. You can tell that it's employee owned in little ways, such as the electronic cart pushers that help to gather the carts out in the parking lot (all other grocery stories seem to make their employees drag them in by hand). It's definitely a staple for a college town because the prices are dead cheap and it's open 24 hours a day, only closed on Christmas and Thanksgiving. Obviously restocking does have to get done at some point, so be aware that at night, forklifts are roaming the aisle and boxes are left in the middle so that it's hard to navigate a shopping cart down them. Their bulk section is also a huge star in my book, from candy to nuts and grains to dog treats. They generally have a great selection of items, including gluten-free and organic, and they carry so many different types of tortillas it's almost ridiculous (but I love it). My only complaints would have to be that the produce is not as fresh as you might find at higher end stores, and that the milk also tends to go bad faster when compared to Trader Joe's or Raley's. I may buy my milk at those other places, but I always go back to WinCo because it's easy to see the vast difference in price for the same or similar items.