Grocery Outlet: Bay Area Mother’s Little Helper

Get Lost in this Supermarket

Everyone loves a bargain (especially moms) and you’ll find plenty of family- friendly deals at Grocery Outlet, the chain of “extreme-value” stores that has nearly two dozen locations in the greater Bay Area (mostly in the East Bay, but with locations in Novato and Redwood City). Grocery Outlet is not unlike a clothing outlet in that manufacturers who need to get rid of excess inventory sell their products to them at pennies on the dollar. What this means is that you get a deep discount on whatever they happen to have in the store, which also means that you have to shop Grocery Outlet when you have the time to browse all the aisles and ferret out the deals that are of most value to you. Grocery Outlet also re-labels or re-packages products based on the manufacturer’s needs. So a name-brand item that perhaps can’t be sold due to a label glitch might be re-packaged and sold by Grocery Outlet. Basically, you never know what you’ll find.