About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, while checking out, a regular noticed something odd in his receipt: the cashier had accidentally scanned an entire aisle of groceries for just pennies each. A few days later, another customer found that their receipt showed only nickels and dimes for every item—including a full carton of eggs priced at five cents! It turned out to be a glitch in WinCo’s system, but everyone got a good laugh over it. The regular even joked with the store manager, saying, ‘Guess I’ll keep coming back until you fix this little money tree!’
2. One day, a regular asked the cashier, ‘Why does my receipt say I bought a bag of marshmallows when I clearly didn’t?’ The cashier smiled and replied, ‘Sir, that’s because you did buy them last week.’ The man scratched his head, then looked around sheepishly. A delivery driver passing by laughed and said, ‘Hey, everyone buys marshmallows here—especially during campfire season!’
3. At closing time one night, an employee heard an unusual announcement over the intercom: ‘Attention please—next week, WinCo will be selling invisible bananas for half price.’ Curious, the worker told no one but a regular who happened to be nearby. The next day, everyone in town was buzzing: 'Invisible bananas at WinCo!' Sure enough, on Monday morning, someone spotted them—just there, hanging like ghosts among ordinary bananas. A delivery driver even claimed he saw a whole truckload of them. But when customers reached for those elusive fruits, they vanished into thin air. Eventually, word spread that if you held your breath and closed your eyes while counting to three, the bananas would reappear. And so it became a quirky tradition: every Thursday evening, WinCo’s employees counted down together, and for exactly thirty seconds, their shelves were filled with perfectly visible invisible bananas.
4. One afternoon, as a little girl followed her mom through the aisles of WinCo Foods, she pointed excitedly at a sign that read, ‘Free Samples Every Tuesday.’ But today wasn’t Tuesday. Just then, an older gentleman in a uniform approached and smiled warmly. 'Special occasion?' he asked with a twinkle in his eye. The little girl nodded vigorously. 'Then let's make it extra special!' He whispered something into his radio, and soon enough, free samples appeared everywhere—even on Sundays.'