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Every time I go into a PCC around dinnertime, I see you: hemp pants, patchouli, knit cap, veggie/vegan, unshaved, with some foul smell emitting from your ugly mugs. I am so sick of watching you linger at the deli for more than 10 minutes as you sample almost every goddamn thing they have in the place. You try to play it off as a joke as you tap the glass and ask, “What’s that?” or “Ohhhh, doesn’t that look scrumptious?” You banter your stupid asses off while shoveling more and more samples into your gaping holes, totally ignoring the fact that, yes, everyone IS on to you as they look at you all with utter disgust. The poor PCC employees have to be nice and plaster on smiles as you ask for more and more sample cups, but trust me—they hate you even more than I do. There is no difference between you and those 300-pound pieces of shit at Costco shoveling their way through the lard-filled mecca of sample gluttony. Next time, I won’t be so kind when I politely order over you, your veggie rage building as I get a chicken leg. Next time, I’ll smack you across the face with that dead chicken carcass, you freeloading fucks. 
Whatever, maybe they were hungry and didn’t have money to buy food. Did you ever think of that?
emerald-city eyed monster:
@51 makes a good point: half the problem here is the Seattle overpolite/PC/don’t rock the boat introspectiveness. Just another facet of the freeze.
note to OP: Throw some elbows, Get in there, and get you some. You’re clearly jealous that they’re craftier and more forward than you.
I wish I had enough free time and energy to work up some anger about this. On second thought, I’d rather save my anger for stuff that actually matters like say the fact that the healthcare system will actually never get properly overhauled.
Why would anyone give a fuck about hippies eating free samples at PCC?
It’s like those rants people get into about hating people who wear trendy clothes or do trendy stuff. Misplaced anger much? If you’re going to do the misplaced anger rant about something stupid and inconsequential have the decency to make it funny and quit wasting everyone’s time. Try to work your rage into something useful. Sheesh.
@ 48 PCC IS MORE PRICY THAN WHOLE FOODS!!!
Not sure about QFC, since I hardly ever shop there, but in general WFM offers better prices than PCC in almost all categories.
You would have been right till about ten years ago, once the Pretentious Corrupt Corporation switched its attitude. It may come to you as a surprise, but a statement like “PCC doesn’t see conscientious shoppers as a niche demographic to gauge and exploit” is far removed from reality as they’re exploiting both their loyal cliental AND their employees.
Members owned food co-op? Don’t kid yourself.
Oh yes, they are local. So was Ted Bundy. And even Slade Gorton is.
Fif @ 47 & 56,
It seems that you’ve got a vendetta against PCC, and it seems personal.
While the corporatist evil of former Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is well-documented, I’ll admit that I know next to nothing about PCC’s operations.
But your personal dislike for PCC doesn’t ACTUALLY make them more expensive. That’s ad hominem logic.
Cumulative experience has consistently yielded these results:
– a trip to Whole Foods is a bank-breaker.
– a trip to QFC that does not involve tailoring purchases to “QFC card” specials IS WORSE.
– PCC will easily save me 20-30% over those other two, often with better quality food.
pcc fills a niche for those who want and can afford their food.
they have a strong customer base. and let’s not forget multiple NW locations.
so ultimately you people can bitch all you want, aint going to change anything.
lol…
When I first moved to Seattle in 1982, PCC branches were filthy, the produce was limp and old and had bugs, and the pasta was uniformly gray and tough. I hated it. It’s a whole new world now; I think the food is great, it’s WAY cheaper than QFC or Whole Foods, and I enjoy my visits. I’m 50, I don’t think of myself as a hippie (but I don’t wear makeup so maybe I am a hippie after all?), and I like to shop locally. Now if only I actually lived in Seattle and could still shop there!
Christ, did I accidentally click on the website for the KKK, or the Republican party, or the Taliban. What is wrong with you people? PCC has always had the crazy ingredients I can’t get anywhere else. And instead of making me buy a $12 bottle of fenugreek, they allow me to buy just 35 cents worth. Talk about OUTRAGEOUS PRICES!!! You want to see a really irritating fuckwad? Check the mirror.
@53 They should get a job then
I don’t like filthy pigs, either.
I thought that all the “hippies” converted to money grubbing/planet destroying/Right wing Boomer assholes back in the 80’s/90’s? Seattle must be extra special – we don’t have hippies in Vancouver – we just have junkies, the Homeless and of course the Boomers….
Hey I feel like a field trip south to check this out – where do I find these “hippies” besides this grocery store?
PCC sucks and is misleading
d.p. @57- Yes, it is personal for the reasons I have already mentioned. Talk to anyone who worked at the Pretentious Corrupt Corporation about ten years ago. And don’t kid yourself, the abuse and shady business practices keep going on, union or not.
Does any one remember few years ago when the P-I exposed PCC buying cheap, standard sea food and sell it for premium as “Eco Fish”?
I guess you don’t. And this was only what came out to the press. Better check that “organic range-free” chicken more carefully.
Personal aside, I still insist that WF beats PCC in almost every category. Not saying they’re saints, but at least they don’t lie to me. And being a big chain they often have great deals under their own365 label. You just have to be a careful shopper and know what to get.
And if you’re really interested in helping a local members-owned grocery store then shop at Madison Market.
@39 Hahaha…
I swear this city is being overrun by angry East Coasters or aggressive L.A.ers
I don’t think they’re “playing it off as a joke”. I bet they are laugh their asses off later, and saying things like “Dude, did you see how mad that guy with the chicken was?!!” I would KILL to see someone slap a hippie, or anyone for that matter, across the face with a chicken leg. Put it on youtube PLEASE. I won’t be there to witness because I can’t afford to shop at PCC.
I work in a PCC deli, and the hippies can be painful if it’s busy or I have shit to do. But they are generally nice and have weird hippy stories to share. People who don’t respond to your hello and dive right into “give me a pint of that” and point into the case assuming I can read their minds, those are the assholes we all hate, especially if they are regulars. Now to the argument about PCC being too corporate: PCC is member-owned. Members no longer work hours at the store like traditional co-ops, being too large is one of the reasons. Most members don’t do anything with their memberships because they just view it like a Safeway club card. It’s not. You get to vote and attend meetings, and generally if you want to have a say, you can. All the stores have suggestion forms readily available and if you bitch enough, you can make shit happen. @fif, If you are really into changing the store, run for the member board. Get on that shit, and shake things up. We would love that. You’ve got to realize that the office is populated with old people, and the board is populated with people who want an easy hobby or something nice on their resume, or the employee discount without actually having to work at a grocery store. Do something about it. I Fucking dare you.
Great I, Anonymous
@67 Your Local Neighborhood Deli Clerk
Guess what, I was just like you. Yes, in a deli, in my own neighborhood. I dared, I payed for my seven-fucking-year-job.
In retrospect maybe I shouldn’t be so sorry. I moved away from the abusive food/grocery business and got into some more creative, semi hi-tec stuff.
Yet I still HATE PCC. I hate them for betraying the local neighborhoods, I hate them for cheating customers and employees alike, I hate them for promoting the wrong people, and I hate the idea that they managed to get away with all that shit only because of the clout they had from past years.
But let me tell you something my young fellow… I take small steps at a time… I noticed at my neighborhood Pretentious Corrupt Corporation that your prices on bulk nuts are actually not that bad. So whenever I need some more I go there and get the organic ones while writing the codes for the non-organic.
I know, a very small step at a time, but we all need to do our share.
You too my friend! Wreck some havoc and then move on!!!
Do you really want to be in that abusive industry twenty year from now????
Do something about it. I Fucking dare you!!!
Let’s do some math, and see how you are gentrification personified:
a) Most people are hungry around dinnertime.
b) Poor people tend to go where there are plentiful free food samples.
c) Hippies go to organic/co-op grocery stores.
You like the character that these types of stores provide, but would prefer to have it without the types of people that usually go there.
You are a Belltown condominium in 2003.
Wow, what a hateful sack of shit the writer is. This bitter accusation is dripping with venomous contempt for the whole world, not just the denizens of PCC or CostCo alone! Is there anyone or anything this miserable turd isn’t unhappy about?
I’d rather shop shoulder to shoulder with a free-loading, fat, smelly, grubby hippy than with a miserable whining douche-bag like the author.
At least the smelly, fat hippy doesn’t nurture the delusion that the she/he is godlike and perfect. Feh.
These are the kind of people who read the stranger??
whoa.
I used to love I annonymous – now it just makes me sad.
May all beings be happy.
May all beings have peace.
May all beings have wisdom.
Funny!
x)
Calm down.
Good lord! I shop at PCC because the prices are MUCH better than the Thriftway down the alley from me and the quality of meat and produce is better. If you have a problem with the clientele, don’t fucking shop there! Go back to Safeway where you belong…
GO HIPPIES GO! Anything that pisses off a Republican comes straight from the heart of God. Savor those samples slooooooooowly.
Funny. Reminds me of the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where the woman wants to try every ice cream flavor as Larry David slowly goes insane because she’s “abusing the sample code” (and then she chooses vanilla, “vanilla?!”). It’s funny because we’ve all been there.
Wow…a whole lot of bitter faux hipsters in here…FYI…if you wear skinny jeans and vans…it doesn’t make you cool…you just look like a douche bag…Love’s me some Safeway…oh…and I also love costco…I’m not 300 pounds, I eat the samples and somehow maintain my inshape physique, I’m also a faggot….Basically what I’m saying is I loved all the ranting crazy folks in here….yeah…I’m typing at YOU!
Sounds like this dude needs to shop at his OWN store, in his OWN neighborhood, in his OWN city, and perhaps on his OWN planet, because he obviously does not want to share this one with anyone who is not up to his whitebread standards. Dude, you suck and I don’t want you in my store with your smelly narcicism and judgmental nastiness.
@71 stuckie: BRILLIANT
@67: thank you for putting 2 cents in. good angle to have.
everyone else: arguing about yer fav grocery store is as fruitful as arguing over fav sports team. The real answer of ‘who’s the best’ changes so fast and so often it’s not worth the effort to worry ‘in the moment’.
Besides, anyone who’s got any carbon-footprint responsibility/guilt at all knows most of us just go to the grocery store that’s either close to home or on our way to/from our daily activities. S’not like I’m on cap hill and going to drive all the fuck down to Rainier Valley/ColumbiaShitty or up to Aurora just to get granola and chicken carcass. I don’t even bother with the denny WholeFoods, as it’s out of the way for an urban city dweller on the hill.
Maybe if the SLUT came up denny, but until then…., sorry expensive foodies. Someone else gets my dollars.
Gilletebret for Mayor! and there are plenty of native seattle assholes…liberal fucks!
Eh, coming from someone who worked at a deli counter, the freeloading hippies are the least of one’s problems. In fact, I prefer them hands down to the pretentious assholes who say the food looks disgusting, the people who sneer down at you when you smile at them, or the people who are cracked out on coke who ask for brown bags full of condiment packets. Seriously, at least the hippies/street kiddies have some semblance of being polite…in fact, compared to most customers, I welcome their pleasant company.