Every year, the Mercury Sex Survey asks, “Of all
the attractively independent, locally owned businesses in town, which
is staffed up with the sexiest employees?” And every year, you, the
Mercury Sex Surveyed, tell us that it’s the folks who give
you free samples at the grocery store, help you stay on top of the
latest and greatest in literary history, and of course those who keep
your Pacific Northwestern veins pumping with the caffeinated liquid
gold that really makes this city work: New Seasons Market (newseasonsmarket.com), Powell’s City
of Books (powells.com), and Stumptown
Coffee Roasters (stumptowncoffee.com) are hereby
crowned Portland’s Top Three Businesses with Sexy Staffs! Enjoy these
sexy snaps of the employees you voted for, and don’t forget to keep
patronizing their places of business—because a sexy employee is a
paid employee!
Photos by Tim Gunther
Styling by Jason Kinney
Make-up by Gigi McCullar