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Thriftway received 29 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers.
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Safeway,
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PCC Natural Markets,
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QFC,
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Metropolitan Market,
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Albertsons,
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WinCo Foods,
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Fred Meyer,
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Central Market,
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TOP Food & Drugs,
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Trader Joe's,
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Whole Foods Market,
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Thriftway,
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Costco,
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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.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Supermarkets.
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Subscriber from POULSBO, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
Central Market is my neighborhood store. I wont shop anywhere else........
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Subscriber from LYNNWOOD, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
Edmonds Store - awesome staff.......
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Subscriber from REDMOND, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
prices are high. what you get is beautiful atmosphere, high quality deli and meats/seafood, very..........
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Subscriber from REDMOND, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
The variety of items may be greater at other stores but the quality and pricing..........
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Subscriber from LAKEWOOD, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
Not cheap, but best grocery store in area. Great atmosphere from moment you enter. Carry..........
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Subscriber from SEABECK, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
Excellent products and service, prices are higher than average........
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Subscriber from MILL CREEK, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
We go about once a month to stock up on certain items, some food but..........
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Subscriber from EVERETT, WA wrote about a local supermarket:
QFC at Claremont has a super staff - I have shopped there for years because..........
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