Wow, I can't wait to check out this amazing grocery store!

Cub Foods FTW.

Wish I lived closer to one. It's much cheaper and refreshingly low on hipsters.

Grocery Outlet or go fuck yourself. You're still an idiot.

You hipsters with your organic salmon and Pac-Man video games and hard rock records!

What does "employee-owned" really mean with chains like this? Isn't it just that they give stock ownership as one of their benefits? WinCo is not even union, right?

Cheese, people CHEESE! It's like half off day in the cheese section there, EVERY DAY.

What Blabby said.

And Geyser, worker-owned typically means that ownership of the company is held in part by each employee (as part of being hired, you receive a stake in the company). Each employee therefore gets a vote for the board of directors, etc, as shareholders do at major corporations.

Bob's Red Mill is also worker-owned now, and Full Sail Brewing has proudly always been that way.

That reminds me. I'm out of bulk staples and should go to Winco. Plus, they usually have Full Sail for about 5 bucks a six-pack.

And unions are a moot point at worker-owned enterprises, since there is no distinction between the powers of workers and management.

Food for Less. just stay clear of the fish case

Oh, and everyone should be reading the Gawker coverage of the Toronto Whole Foods quitter's letter to his whole region of the WF company.

Pretty excellent stuff, with literally hundreds of emails coming in to respond. I'd link to it, but it's, you know, Friday afternoon. And there's beer here.