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  <id>381232</id>
  <title>Grocery Outlet: Fountain Valley store coming soon</title>
  <published_at>Wed Mar 14 23:18:01 -0700 2007</published_at>
  <post_count>3</post_count>
  <board>
    <id>2</id>
    <name>Los Angeles Area</name>
  </board>
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    <post>
      <post>
        <level>0</level>
        <id>2387381</id>
        <content>Those of you familiar with this Berkeley based chain know that this is a great store for weird stuff at low prices.  I love the Buena Park store because I like organic foods, junk food and low prices and this store often has organic junk foods for cheap since apparently nobody else buys that stuff around here.

I chatted up the manager and found that they're working on a new store in Fountain Valley.  Also, they're looking to open a bunch of other stores in the area.  Yay!  I just hope they stay with the same formula and don't change.  I wonder if that's possible.

So no post about Grocery Outlet is complete without a list of recent finds.  So here goes:

Just bought a bunch of Horizon yogurt with cherry on the bottom.  pints of yogurt are 3 for $1 here.  

candy bars are 4 for a dollar unless they're big.  this store still has a lot of Lindt Excellence chocolate bars, the pear flavor, at 99 cents.  BTW, the Berkeley store ran out of these bars a long time ago.  They also just got some dove organic choclate bars but at $1.89 they were out of my budget.

Avalon Organics hand and body lotion $5.

haagen dazs mint chocolate ice cream bar $.69 (99 cents at the berkeley store)  it was delish.

wine selection here sucks compared to the bay area stores but i guess that is to be expected.

They just got some Vanilla Heath Bar Ben &amp; Jerry's ice cream. $1.49.  I bought some of the organic chocolate but don't get that because it wasn't stored properly (unless I did something wrong en route to home)</content>
        <published_at>Wed Mar 14 23:18:01 -0700 2007</published_at>
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        <user>
          <id>10246</id>
          <name>choctastic</name>
        </user>
      </post>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>2387417</id>
      <content>sounds like the pic n save of organics, what's the address? </content>
      <published_at>Wed Mar 14 23:52:38 -0700 2007</published_at>
      <parent_id>2387381</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>77080</id>
        <name>justagthing</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>2388365</id>
      <content>Here's the link:

http://www.groceryoutlets.com/Locations.aspx?loc_Store=222

8960 Knott Ave
(No) Bueno Park  CA

It's really too bad that it's the only location convenient to Los Angeles, unless you live near Palmdale/Lancaster.

Items I have found that have been great deals include  2lb Black Forest Ham wedge for $3.00, Hormel Applewood Bacon for $1.99, PollyO Mozzarella 1#=2.49, and 1/2 Gallon container of fresh grapefruit sections for $3.00.  Most of the selections are canned goods (soups that are 30-50 cents/can, pie filling for 99 cents)  There's a small selection of produce, two aisles of frozen food, a small meat/deli case, small wine selection, even smaller beer selection etc.</content>
      <published_at>Thu Mar 15 09:25:06 -0700 2007</published_at>
      <parent_id>2387381</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>60925</id>
        <name>robl</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>2390016</id>
      <content>Also great for wines, you can find really great deals on decently rated wines.  Much better than TJ's</content>
      <published_at>Thu Mar 15 15:31:43 -0700 2007</published_at>
      <parent_id>2387381</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>38336</id>
        <name>ecco22</name>
      </user>
    </post>
  </posts>
</topic>
