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PCC Natural Markets received 48 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers.
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Fred Meyer,
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Thriftway,
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Trader Joe's,
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Whole Foods Market,
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Central Market,
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PCC Natural Markets,
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Safeway,
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WinCo Foods,
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Albertsons,
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QFC,
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Metropolitan Market,
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Costco,
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TOP Food & Drugs,
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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Supermarkets Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
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Great products and great prices........
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I love Costco!.......
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Been going there aor over forty years. Very good staff........
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Subscriber from FEDERAL WAY, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
Pity there is not one closer to us.......
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Subscriber from ISSAQUAH, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
I do like safeway and the products they carry. I know the store layout so..........
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Subscriber from SUTHERLIN, OR wrote about a local supermarket:
Good Products however a little over priced compared to other stores........
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Subscriber from BELLEVUE, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
In particular I like their grass-fed, no antibiotic beef, pork, chicken and organic produce. However..........
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Subscriber from SHORELINE, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
Safeway consistently offers wide range of daily living food and household items, always at some..........
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