Grocery Outlet

Good place to stop for lunch before heading to Bodega Bay or another beach. The selection is better than some Grocery Outlet’s, so you can usually find good deals if your flexible about brand names.

Wow this place is huge! I have yet to be in such a large Grocery Outlet as this. It has a large fruits and vegetable section that have a lot of organic produce. The aisles are very tall and filled to the brim with merchandise and food. I would very much recommend shopping either in the earlier or later hours of operation to avoid the mob of customers that go here. Due to the aisles being a little narrower then in other similar stores it only takes one or two carts to block access down them. As a shopper, I must confess, I like to roam the store and not just stick to the list I have. A place like this needs time to explore to find the good deals and bargains to be had. I would also say you should come when you have the most patience if you dare show up here during its peak hours. Customers tend to let their kids roam free here while they themselves tend to plug up more popular aisles. They also never seem to have enough cashiers, either, which is why I gave this place three stars rather than four. If it weren’t for the thrill of finding something incredible for a frugal price I wouldn’t be coming back here as often as I do.

This place just makes my heart sing. I love all the random stuff that I can get here. There are great bargains here, and if you shop frequently enough, you can really get some fun stuff right before the expiration date, super super cheap.
Their produce is decent. The frozen selection nice, and the wine and cheese department is well stocked with lots of variety.

As a long time fan of Grocery Outlet I was eager to check out the store in my new home town. I was not disappointed. They have all the usual items available in most G.O.‘s plus a better selection of cheese than most.
The wine section has a nice selection of bargain wines. The staff was friendly and helpful especially Steve Sevilla «The Wine Guy». I’ll be back!

My stupid friends always complain they can’t eat healthy foods because they can’t afford it — I get a ton of organic, local, and or healthy foods at G.O. all the time. But when they come to my house they are more than happy to eat the food from there! I think people think they are a little «too good» for the store, but i see fancy cars in the parking lot all the time. This store has the best cheese selection, awesome dry goods, cheaper beauty products, lots of wine, a crazy awesome candy selection, local breads, local eggs. You can’t expect to find everything you are looking for all the time, but with the money you won’t care about running into another store for the five minutes. I just bought organic strawberries for $ 1.99 vs. TJ’s $ 3.99. I love saving $$ !!
also by shopping here you are helping the community by supporting a store that people on a very limited income can afford to shop at. People with dozens of kids can afford to feed them a little better quality. A person hosting a party can afford to provide their guests with nice food.

In general, they have good prices on the things that they have in stock. However, they don’t always have the things that we need. The selection is good enough to keep us coming back several times a month.

What a relief. The store has gone from selling lousy wine and out of code merchandise to Great Wine and Beer to useable and great groceries. The new owner knows everything about the store. Best of all he and his crew are active parts of the community. Three cheers to the change. Even the produce is cheaper than any other chain. Same products as «S» only cheaper.

After our food inducing coma from Traxx, we decided to take a little walk and from the corner of my eye, I saw a sign… the Grocery Outlet sign! If you know me, I love a bargain and I’ve been loving Grocery Outlet.
So apparently every Grocery Outlet is family owned and this was definitely a more posh GO. It felt like a normal grocery. Everything neatly put away and organized. What’s also something special about this GO is that they have an array of beers and wines. I guess it’s cause of the area. It was amazing. I wish I lived closer as this GO was so awesome. Oh well! But glad to know I should really take a look at all different GOs as the stock will definitely vary.

Great deals on just about everything here. I like that you can find discounted prices on gourmet chocolate like Lindt and Chuao. You can also find good deals on frozen and organic items. I found a great deal on a facial cleanser here that would have been twice as much at Target.
Just like any grocery store, check the expiration dates first, however, I noticed they started using a display on wheels to separate out items that are going to expire in a day or two. This is a good store to come to first before doing your regular shopping.

I was helped beyond my wildest expectations. Just couldn’t figure out which item would work for me and the clerk really helped. She was really friendly also.

Especially love that they have so many organic items, more than other GOs I go to. I’ve bought plenty of non-​food stuff there as well, like small appliances, bar stools and collapsible hassocks, all at half the price they were charging at Wal-​mart, and better quality. Never, ever, a problem with returns. Management and staff are always friendly and helpful.

I love Grocery Outlets! We have one in Vallejo but I’ve never been there, I usually stop by in Petaluma when I picked up my aunt from work in Petaluma and my mom in Santa Rosa. I just love the variety of goods that I could haul from here, from beauty & body products, flowers, groceries to beach stuff and many more. And don’t wait until your next visit when you want to get something, buy it or you’ll never see it again. Shop at Grocery Outlet, and you’ll be surprised by how much you can save at a regular grocery store buying the same exact product.

Kierkegaard once said, «Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.» Keep that in mind once you enter the Petaluma Grocery Outlet because you have now left reality on the strip mall sidewalk. I’ve bought everything from big fluffy pillows, the cheapest most unrecognizable cans of beer ever produced to larger than life sized frozen California Pizza Kitchen for $ 3.
The people inside consist of the same petite Latina woman in different stages of life — young, middle-​aged, old — that make you expect to see old Rod Serling come around the snack aisle pushing a shopping cart. Oh, yeah, there is a Redwood Tree of a white guy with silver hair. He’s nice too.
If you can find cheaper prices for food you’re probably at the Dollar Store, to which I say, «Whoa, you get down like that?» I can’t do it. I love my stomach too much. That reminds me of something else Soren once said, «Don’t forget to love yourself.»
Also during my last trip to the Dollar Store they ran out of bags (seriously) and started handing out cardboard boxes of other deeply discounted items to load up yourself which gave me a terrible Aldi’s flashback, in which I entered another dimension of sight and sound and mind. Then Albuelita or Sugiery circled that I’d saved $ 5.60 by shopping at Grocery Outlet and all was right with the world.

Very good pricing but you just got to watch what you our buying. Some thing are past or near expiration and most name brand thing you can get cheaper elsewhere. Very hit or miss not someplace you could shop weekly for groceries especially if you want to eat semi-​healthy. Worth coming to couple times a year.

Great prices and great service. Owner is a very good person who really cares about the community he works in… place is super clean and always has some sort of hidden gem for sale… not enough produce… but good stuff… go for the basics for sure!

Oh, Petaluma Grocery Outlet, what would I do without you? I’d be spending a lot more money than need be, that’s what.
Ok, so maybe, I don’t trust you enough to buy produce or other food items from you, but I love that you always have great hair and body products at ridiculously cheap prices!
But, I have to be honest, PGO, that’s really all that I love about you. And that’s what this review is specific to.

Who would ever think a grocery store could be so fun ?
I LOVE Grocery Outlet. It’s the only store that I address the checkers by name because it has a small town feel.
The ONLY reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 is because back in the day the prices were phenomenal. Now they advertise on TV and the radio, so the prices have gone up a lot. Some items are even cheaper at Lucky’s or Safeway, but I’m still a fan…

This is like a treasure hunt. I can spend 15 minutes in the health product section. They have some Neutragena products half off. There are surprises all over. Indian food. Organic cookies. Sausages under $ 3.00. I wish I live nearby, because I want to buy Ben & Jerry ice creams. Petaluma is always so sunny. As soon as I step out of there, the ice cream would melt. This place is well stocked. The cashier was nice. The parking lot is huge and none of these skinny parking spaces. You can park your tank with no problem. This is a dangerous place. Every little things add up and the big surprise is the bill. Read the expiration date. Ask yourself, do you feel lucky?

Yup, this place is great. …and compared to a lot of the other Groco’s (what my family calls these places) this one kicks arse. It is clean, well stocked and the staff is super friendly.
Heck, I have even bought garden supplies from this place (corn and tomato plants). Who would have thunk?
Yes, you can’t always rely on the same items being in stock every time you go… but that is kind of the reason they are so inexpensive, so it is well worth the some time disappointment. (I have been known to open things up in my car and if I really like them I go back in and buy them all.)
I don’t know what the guy is talking about who was complaining about the ice cream section… it is pretty darn big and right across from it I have gotten regularly priced $ 5-​$ 10 super exclusive chocolate bars for 50 cents a piece.
…and for you ORGANIC food snobs who waste your whole paycheck at Whole Paych… I mean Whole Foods, you should know that Groco has a ton of Organic stuff; from cereal to coffee, from meats to wines.
And as far as their produce and their perishables… I get a lot of both and have never had a problem. Their price for meats is great… and for those of you who are afraid… keep in mind that NO store can sell bad food or else they would be closed down ASAP.
Try their Santa Maria tri-​tip steaks and their Miller Habenaro Sausages. Damn are they hot but they are SOOOO good and I have never seen them anywhere else (I always search out Miller because they are the best). I have always found some things here that nobody else had.
One day recently, I needed some Lomo and/​or Serrano ham for a recipe. When I lived in the east bay I could get it pretty easily but up here it is impossible to find. I went to Trader Joe’s, Petaluma Market and Whole Foods and not only didn’t they know what I was talking about they didn’t carry it. Sure enough, I walked into Groco and there it was, and not some knock-​off stuff but the real stuff, straight from Spain. It had Serrano, Lomo and Chorizo and was about $ 6 a pound instead of the $ 20-​$ 30 I would have normally paid… but I couldn’t even get it for that since nobody else in Petaluma carried it. Groco is awesome for finds like that.
They are also great about returns. I bought some drink mix once that ended up not having any sugar even though that was one of the ingredients (so it tasted awful). When I told them in person they didn’t hassle me at all, even though I had already thrown the item out. They gave me my money back as soon as I produced my receipt. Now THAT is service.
And don’t forget that they sell bath and beauty supplies as well as kitchen stuff and even some clothes.
Groco has come a long way since it first started so if you haven’t been in there lately give it a shot — you will be surprised at how much money you save and the quality of products you will come home with.

PGO, like other Grocery Outlet stores, is hit and miss. Sometimes you’ll find awesome cheap stuff here, and you better stock up because chances are it won’t be there the next time you go.
We get essentials here — frozen foods, packaged stuff, canned stuff, super cheap beers, cleaning products, et cetera. For the fresh produce and meat we shop elsewhere. It’s really that simple.
I’ve never been unsatisfied with the offerings here.