WinCo grocery opening today in Edmonds

  • The Herald Business Journal Staff
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2015 1:59pm
  • BusinessEdmonds

EDMONDS — A new WinCo Foods grocery store is scheduled to open at 9 this morning at the former TOP Food &Drug Store on Highway 99, the third store by the employee-owned company in Snohomish County.

WinCo has hired about 150 employees for the store at 21900 Highway 99 in Edmonds. The Boise, Idaho,-based company signed a lease for the property earlier this year and has spent months remodeling the 86,800-square-foot store.

“It’s a natural outgrowth of our expansion in Western Washington, which has been a very, very good market for us,” said Mike Read, WinCo spokesman.

Store Manager Dave Kamrath has years of retail experience, including the last two with WinCo. All of the stores are open 24 hours a day.

WinCo features its Wall of Values as customers walk in the door, a place where the store promotes its best deals. WinCo also differs from other grocery stores in the quantity and space it devotes to bulk bins. The Edmonds store will have 900 items in bulk bins.

The Edmonds location will be WinCo’s 20th store in Washington and third in Snohomish County. The chain already has stores in Marysville and Everett.

Bellingham-based Haggen closed the TOP Food in Edmonds and the Arlington Haggen Food &Pharmacy at 20115 74th Ave. NE in 2014. The Arlington store is still closed.

Both the Edmonds and Arlington locations are owned by MGP X Reit, based in San Francisco. A local representative for the company could not be reached for comment.

In Arlington, the Food Pavilion at the corner of Highway 530 and Broadway Street also closed last year. The Dollar Tree moved into a portion of that space last month and a Grocery Outlet is scheduled to open in the rest of the space on Nov. 19.

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