Shopping: Grocery Outlet in Hillsboro

Grocery outlet has been around a number of years now on 1st street in hillsboro. I remember the building as "the old Safeway" from my childhood.

The store is known for having reasonable prices on canned and frozen foods, and for some people inexpensive wine.
I went looking for inexpensive canned foods to restock our "emergency supply" in case of an emergency. You know, the plastic tub with food / water / batteries / radio / flashlight, etc.

I found a good number of cans of vegetables for 0.59 each, and a few for 0.50 each.
Santa Fe beans, Sweet Peas, sliced carrots, Green Giant beans, Corn, and mixed veggies.

Fruit was generally 0.99 / can. Peaches, Pears and Cocktail. On my way out of the store, they had special cans of fruit "for kids" at 2/$1.00. (fruit in extra light syrup with vitamins added) I wish I had seen this one on the way in, but didn't want to go back through line. :)

For us men, they have large cans of chili beans for $0.99. After all of that, I threw in some cans of "whole potatoes" and a few boxes of saltine crackers to round things out.

For $20 I was able to walk out with a huge selection of vegetable and fruit, enough to last the family a week or so if needed, and still had enough for a can of olives.


As for shopping environment, I found the store to be much less crowded than Winco, shorter lines, and no need to bag things yourself. (I was given a box for everything) You do have to walk through all of the toiletries and some toys to get into the main aisles, which I personally find a bit irritating. All in all, I find Grocery Outlet to be a good place to shop for canned foods and frozen foods, matched in price only by sales at most other stores.