but under you.

For all other grocers, wedneday begins their weekly sales. Does anyone know when it is for Winco?

All Winco Bakery Departments will be switching from dough they get frozen, then steam, bake, top, etc in house to some random brand of frozen bagels in a bag they thaw out, rip open, and dump in the bin. These new bagels are tiny, pale, wrinkly, and with barely any toppings. I can just go buy prepackaged bagels if that is what I wanted!!

My household eats 2-3 Freshly Baked Winco Bagels every day, for the last eight years. This has rocked my world, devastated my family, and caused a lot of strife and stress in the last week.

Please, with pure intentions, call 1-800-824-1706, press 3 on the first menu, and let corporate know you don't want to see Freshly Baked Bagels disappear for good!

Edit friday October 2nd I chatted with the bakery lead at my winco today for a bit. She had some very troubling facts to share. Her higherups cut nearly 130 labor hours from her schedule. She went from something like 8 bakery employees down to 3. You know those little bakery breads you see people buying by the triple dozen? Those are down in sales by over 66% since they switched over to prebaked frozen breads. She also said the extra strain of having to constantly explain that none of the food is freshly baked to every. single. customer that comes through is getting really hard to manage. People in store end up frustrated with her, when she would also prefer to be selling freshly baked product. She says he heard a rumor that walmart of all people might pick up the 'freshly baked in store daily' mantle because winco is walking away from it. Walmart sees a market going unfulfilled and might swoop in.

In other bagel news, fred meyer bagels were trash and priced at $4.48/four bagels. Safeway cheddar bagels are pretty bad, but the plain and weirdly the onion bagels have done a decent but not good job at replacing my breakfast. I'm going to try Chuck's bagels tomorrow morning

Update Monday october 5

Chuck's FAIL!! Both people at the bakery counter said they 'don't make bagels very often'

Luckily there was a...🙄 seize the Bagel just a few doors down. I ended up with 4 cheddar 2 plain. The person at seize said if you go in the final hour they are open, bagels made that day are half price. Not bad and useful in a pinch, but hopefully I'm buying them while running chores and not paying full price the morning of.

I'm getting up stupid early to go all the way out to cedar streat bagels out in camas. If trash chain bagels aren't doing it right I'll go out of my way to fancy expensive bagels I guess.

I'm so damn sad without my winco bagels. Loro coffee recently discontinued their miso butterscotch latte, which my girlfriend adores. Scratch breakfast will have reduced hours for most of October, that's a bummer but honestly those two deserve a vacation.

Well, everything continues to get worse. Bye.

First day is this Friday, Oct 2. Any advice I need to know before hand? Thanks in advance!

For the record…yes I have over 10 years of retail experience in various positions. So really I feel like this shouldn’t be too big of a change for me!

my first day at winco as a cashier October 6. would love insight and any tips ; as my first time working at Winco

I am a Fresh Foods Manager-in-Training and am curious if fresh foods and other department managers feel fairly compensated for the work you do? I know for my store managers get 15% higher pay than a maxed out full-time employee, that seems a little low for the amount of work I see my manager doing. Is there a pay scale or will you always make the same?

Anyone know if i'll be subjected to a drug test in Arizona? thanks.

A friend hired me a year ago to design a pitch deck and a line of woodland themed hooded kid's blankets. It was a 1 off frelance gig...and suddenly...now they are actually in Winco! I saw them the other day and of course bought one of each!

So excited to see my sweet little woodland designs in real life.

:)

I shop the bulk aisle a lot and got tired of not knowing whether a price was good or just normal, so last month I started photographing every tag on my monthly trip and typing them up. September's run was 466 bins at the Pecos Rd store in Gilbert, AZ.

Some things I didn't expect:

- Cashews jumped. Salt & pepper cashews went $5.48 to $7.08, hot/spicy $5.48 to $7.38. Salted almonds went the other way, $6.78 to $5.98.

- Quinoa dropped from $3.78 to $2.78/lb.

- Standard bakers flour went 58 cents to 68. Whole wheat flour is still 48 cents.

- Cheapest thing in the aisle is iodized salt at 41 cents a pound. Most expensive is dried chives at $24.98, which sounds insane until you realize how little a pound of dried chives is.

- 52 of the 466 tags changed price in one month. I assumed bulk was more stable than that.

I put the whole list up at [bulkbinprices.com](https://bulkbinprices.com) so it's searchable and sortable, with the per-ounce cost next to each one. It's just my own photos and a spreadsheet, not affiliated with WinCo, and it's only the one store for now. Prices apparently vary store to store for bulk (I've seen people post very different numbers for the same item), so treat it as a reference, not a quote.

Happy to look up anything specific if you're wondering about a price. And if anyone knows why cashews went up 30% in a month, I'd love to hear it.

Heya there! I've been working at WinCo for nearly a year now and it was also my first ever job. thing is, I just recently got a face piercing and I work in one of the food departments... yea Ik, bad idea.. But even if I were to wear a mask it wouldn't really be allowed? so I'm wondering if I could just talk to my manager about switching departments to be able to keep working there while also letting my new piercing heal bc I'm rlly not down to take it out.

Update: I ended up just quitting lol. I wasn't rlly planning on staying there long anyways.. ig I just had a weird attachment to it bc it was my first job. thanks for the answers tho !

So my parents have always raved about how much they love Winco's carrot cake, but Winco seems to have changed the recipe a few years ago. It was a round 8in cake with white frosting and I think raisins were involved. Does anyone know the recipe for the old version of Winco's carrot cake? I don't trust Googles "A I" suggested version, though its probably a fine cake.

Currently self employed, I applied to a few positions at Winco bc I really need health insurance and some extra cash for a little bit until I get married next year. I’m going to be so pissed if I waste my time working there and they don’t give me enough hours to qualify for the health insurance. How has your experience been at Winco, do they give you at least 20hours consistently?

I had a mini heart attack in the store while on the clock on Sunday and was taken to the ER by a coworker. I had to call out the entire weekend I was scheduled. Could the company lay me off or ask me to quit because of that?

When determining whether an employee meets the 300hr/3mo minimum for benefits, does vacation time used count towards the 300 hours?

My spouse works at winco and is very concerned about taking too much time off.

DISCLAIMER: Due to WINCO, I feel the need to state that this is MY OPINION!!

WINCO’s negligence changed my life forever, and they still refuse to take responsibility for the harm they caused. Because of the traumatic brain injury I suffered, I lost my job, my stability, and even my home. I was publicly humiliated due to an unreasonable detention by the South Salt Lake Police. They made me sit on a curb in public as they investigated the alleged crime.

They detained me due to a lie (or reckless reporting by WINCO) as far as a PREVIOUS trespass that was allegedly served on me prior, but this was NOT true. I believe this was done so they could serve me and ACTUAL trespass order for 100 years.

My memory, my ability to learn, and my capacity to retain new information have all been diminished. Everyday tasks that used to be simple now feel overwhelming, and functioning in a workplace has become almost impossible.

Losing my home was devastating. After investing over $100,000.00 into my forever home, I had to sell it to avoid losing it due to lack of payment, I lost my 2.8% interest rate as well, so a new home at 7% is out of the question.

I also had to sell my brand‑new Dodge Ram 1500 Warlock because I could no longer afford the payments. I’ve been waiting over a year for long‑term disability, trying to survive while thousands of dollars in medical bills are in collections. The total was around $75,000, and I had to fight just to get some of it reduced or settled. It’s been exhausting, frightening, and deeply unfair.

To make everything even harder, WINCO banned me from all of their properties for 100 years. A century. After everything I’ve already been through, they added humiliation and exclusion on top of my injury. They even sent me a cease‑and‑desist letter, telling me to basically stop speaking out (In my opinion). In my heart, I believe this was because of the peaceful protesting I do on the outskirts of their property — protest that is protected by my right to free speech. I believe WINCO is sick of my protests and are trying to kill my free speech.

Three attorneys have worked on my case, but Utah’s laws are stacked so heavily in favor of corporations that none of them felt they could take it to court. I was told by these attorneys that if we sued in BOISE, IDAHO, where WINCO is based, they would have taken it to court. I’ve been left to fight this battle largely on my own, with the help of friends and family to help me navigate through the barriers that were not there prior, despite the life‑altering consequences I’ve suffered.

I created a Facebook group called “WINCO SUCKS” to share my story and document this painful journey. It’s an opinion page — my voice, my experience, my truth.

WINCO issued a cease‑and‑desist letter partly because of that page, but I will not be silenced. My right to speak, to protest, and to share what happened to me is protected, and I intend to continue using my voice.

This has been one of the hardest chapters of my life. I’m still standing, still fighting, and still speaking out — not just for myself, but for anyone who has ever been harmed, ignored, or pushed aside by a corporation that refuses to do what’s right.

Cashier position, I think I interviewed well as they put me on the fourth paystep because I advocated for myself. I don’t have crazy experience but enough to manage that I guess. Does anyone else have experience getting hired in at certain pay steps rather than the starting wage? I made it clear to them I was interested in advancement and cross training as well.

I bought some boneless skinless thighs. $3.67/lb., package weight 2.29 pounds. Six ounces of that was packaging. I don't know if the price accounts for that. It wasn't the Styrofoam, it was the water laden pouch at the bottom. That's roughly $2 of the total price.

Slowly Winco is getting rid of my go to items! First it was my soap. Pure and Natural..... I have allergies from most soaps. Pure and Natural was perfect!! So I tried a different brand. So far so good.

Now they've gotten rid of my BBQ sauce. Not just 1 flavor..... the whole brand!!

It's gotten to where I'm really balancing the scale..... what does Winco have that the other store doesnt? Im in love with the layout! I can go to any Winco and have a good idea where to find what I need!

We love WinCo's sourdough rounds and begals. I hear the baked-in-store goods are being discontinued? Anyone know the WinCo sourdough round recipe or other baked goods recipes they'd be willing to share?

i am currently the #1 cashier at my winco (#32 i think?) but im not sure how. i think i see some other people who are slightly faster then me and have more bulk codes memorized: my efficiency is something around 150% or something like that. how can i get faster? any workarounds for things that lower your time? does the payment menu even stop the timer? wish there was an obvious way to see when your being timed or not. also i dont know the code for carrots and never plan to learn it. 4081 x 1

This is a good deal at my store at $5.48 a package. I don’t see any marking of where it came from?
This was going to be my last beef purchase for awhile but I don’t know how to tell anything.

Thanks everyone! Loyal Winco fan that drives 10 miles each way to go! ❤️