Winco Pizza - Folsom

Excellent fresh produce with best rate in the area! Has good selection of cool drinks and deli. Only store open 24hrs

I 've been a fan of Winco since I shopped Boise Winco years ago. Modern day Pak 'n Save, but Winco is employee owned. I 've been in this store a couple of times in recent months. It 's flipped compared to the Orangevale location. A little challenging to find things. Today this location had excellent cilantro. I don 't find the best bunches at the Orangevale location. BTW, if you like cilantro but don 't eat it fast enough, get an herb keeper online or at a retail store. Cilantro lasts me 2+ weeks if I change the water every 2 3 days! Shopping Winco you 'll find that they have most of what you need but not always a variety, it must keep costs low. Be sure to check out the bulk items candy, beans, pasta, trail mix, nuts, dried fruit, and tons of seasonings and herbs. They also sell inexpensive herb jars.

Winco is a great grocery store for those who are primarily concerned with saving money. Prices on most common grocery staples tend to be lower here than anywhere else in town, including Wal-Mart. Liquor prices are also low here, and it 's stashed all over the store. There 's the liquor aisle, the walk-in liquor fridge, the end-cap liquor fridge, plus customer service. Pro tip: If alcohol is the only thing you 're buying, you can check out at customer service. The employees are usually friendly, but not always, to be real. The store is an acceptable level of clean, but sometimes just barely. Social distancing and mask orders were absolutely not enforced at this store during the times that they were in effect. For this reason, I actually stopped shopping here for a while, until I was able to get fully vaccinated. Areas of the store that I personally routinely avoid include the meat and produce departments. I prefer to purchase these items from more sanitary environments. So, what keeps me coming back to this store? Other than the low prices, it 's mainly the deli (except the lunch meat, which I do not recommend). The pizza dough is surprisingly not bad. The Chipotle chicken sundried tomato wraps make a great lunch for a short hike. The mashed potato bowls from the deli are one of my top guilty pleasure foods. I 'm sure they 're so bad for you, and they definitely don 't adhere to the diet recommended by my doctor, but I usually end up eating one at least one per month. They come loaded with mashed potatoes, fried chicken, gravy, corn, and cheese. So bad, but so good. The thing is, they 're almost always out of mashed potato bowls. Out of the last six times that I 've driven to Winco in hopes of finding a mashed potato bowl, I 've found two. On Saturdays, they are often sold out by noon. By contrast, they make way too many turkey bowls and breakfast bowls, which sit unwanted near the empty chicken bowl spots. Winco, if you 're reading this, please start producing more chicken bowls, and less turkey bowls. I bet half of the turkey bowl sales come from people who really wanted a chicken bowl, but were unable to find one, anyway. Overall, sometimes I wish that the store was cleaner, or less crowded, but it 's kind of a get what you pay for situation. I will continue to come back because I like saving money, and many of my basic necessities are simply cheaper here than they are anywhere else in town.

Dropping a star. The cashier could not help me out by pushing the conveyor belt to run automatically. I was on a solo shopping run. Even after I asked her to please run it, my words fell on deaf ears. Ugh. I will definitely avoid her line in the future.

Why are there only 4 cashier lanes open on a Sunday afternoon. The lines are insane and the cashiers are painfully slow. Must be amateur hour at the cashier lanes