PCC Community Markets - Co-op Office

With so many crazy negative reviews I had to come here to show my love. Such a great store and greatful for everything you're providing!

Jameson is a cornerstone of what keeps PCC alive as a co-op and community. A decent human and leader. Very honorable listener with openness to feedback and positive change. A breath of fresh air.

Employees at the Ballard location are extremely rude and tell their customers to F&$@ Off based on what they do for a living. I will never shop at another PCC location again. There are many other alternatives. Disgusting!

PCC was slow to implement defenses against COVID 19. Kept the food bar open a couple weeks after the restaurants were closed. Staff started wearing masks just about 3 weeks ago. No limit to number of people in the store. Why the reluctance to protect your essentially poor and expendable workers by requiring your mostly high income working from home customers to wear masks while shopping? Why not limit how many are in the store at one time? It seems you are motivated to retain customers by coddling them, not wanting to offend or inconvenience them. Please.understand many of your customers would appreciate your taking a stronger stance to protect worker and customer health.

Thanks for closing the downtown location. Now I don't have a real grocery store within walking distance. Anything to help pad the CEO's $500,000 base annual salary right? Keep working for clowns with an addiction to greed.

I love PCC markets. BUT, today I found out that they have banned colloidal silver because it contains nanoparticles. This shows a lack of critical thinking, and makes me wonder what their agenda is. I have personally used this product for 35 years and have found it very helpful for a variety of things, mostly topical. Silver is a naturally occurring substance unlike so many of the chemicals used in modern products which are worthy of being banned.

After being a member for over 20 years I was denied using the remainder of my dividend today because my husband was not there to approve it even though last week I was able to use it. Apparently PCC has entered Giliad . No one had a good explanation for why last week it was ok and this week it wasn’t so I was not allowed to use the dividend. They said it was not legal to allow me to use it but again no explanation as to why last week it was ok. Incredibly disappointed, disrespected. Whole Foods will get my business.

Used to be an example of how to bring community together and show all staff respect. Now store front moral is nothing, the co-op mentality is gone and expansion has become the top priority. I keep trying to give them another chance and each time I enter a store I'm more disappointed. I don't blame the store staff at all, I blame the CEO and board for prioritizing profit over taking care of their employees.

You can see my previous review .. the hippie dream of the 70s was completely decimated by some greedy corporate enterprise which has engulfed and engorged its capital gains. Very sad state of affairs. However I have recently spent some time discussing things with a relatively new Customer Service Manager who has excellent people skills. We cannot go backward sin the past. We can go forward.. working wiht things as they are. I rely on the high quality food I get from Fremont PCC.

I had been a member of PCC since 1980 but I quit in January of 2020. That's when the Puget Culinary Cartel decided to get rid of the monthly 5% and 10% member discounts and replace them with a 2% rebate mailed the year after it was earned. The management did not put this to a vote or consult the members. As a low-income senior, this would have increased my annual grocery bill at PCC by hundreds of dollars. PCC effectively threw long-time members under the bus in favor of high-earning tech workers who don't even look at the prices. In 2019, PCC hired a former Kroger executive, Suzi Monfort, as CEO. She has no experience working for cooperatives and is working to wipe out every cooperative aspect of the company. Recently, she wrote a whiny letter to Seattle's mayor, claiming that PCC should be exempt from providing COVID hazard pay to their employees. She has hired a union-busting company to push back against employee activism. She called the cops on members gathering signatures on PCC property - to nominate two employees for the board. The board proposed their own hand-picked employees to join the board, but the members chose the employee activists instead. The Cartel been on steroids in the last few years, opening stores all over Puget Sound but not hiring enough employees to staff the stores. PCC employees are on the edge of a strike this month because of low pay, poor benefits and bad treatment by management. I will continue to boycott PCC and will support the employees in any way I can.

Although this isn't a grocery store, this location is the main office for PCC Markets. Not only that, they also have cooking classes at this location in a wonderfully modern kitchen! PCC Cooks! is the brochure and if you ever get the chance, take a class and learn to do something a little bit different. Of course, the instructors make samples for everyone to try and the fees are reasonable so there are no good excuses for not trying to extend your knowledge base. Surprise your friends and family!