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Discounts range from 30 to 70
percent at the King City store
By Scott Keith
W
ith household budgets tight these
days, it’s hard to figure out whether
that loose $5 bill should go for milk or
gasoline. You can’t live without food,
however.
Your wallet will thank you if you happen to drop
by Grocery Outlet in King City, just off Highway
99, where products can be found at dramatically
discounted prices.
Independently owned and operated by Tony and
Tina Slyter, Grocery Outlet discounts can range
from 30 to 70 percent on many every day items.
There are many creative ways Grocery Outlet
can drop the price of merchandise. For instance, a
particular cereal may feature a tie-in with a just-
released movie. Then, according to Slyter, the
movie “comes off the theater and goes to DVD,
and they still have all that cereal. Most retailers
don’t want to have that in their store, because it’s
not relevant. We’ll take that cereal and we’ll get it
at a deep discount.”
Other examples might be mayonnaise that was
over-produced — or, perhaps, an order that was
abandoned.
Grocery Outlet not only offers many fresh
items, including meat, produce and dairy, but
you’ll find an extensive and quite popular wine de-
partment.
“We source the world for great wines that we
sell,” Slyter said, pointing out that a recent wine
sale offered a $30 bottle of wine for $5.99.
“There was a winery two years ago that went
completely out of business,” Slyter said. “We went
in and bought everything they had.” Grocery Out-
let was able to sell perfectly drinkable $14.99 bot-
tles of wine for $1.99.
There are corporate groceries in the region, but
at the smaller and independently operated Gro-
cery Outlet, Tony and Tina really get to know
their workers.
“I know my employees,” Slyter said. “We’ve
been to baby showers — we get relationships with
them, where they know us on a more personal lev-
el. We love that. That’s who we are.”
Being in a smaller community, Grocery Outlet
workers get to know their customers. In fact, some
of the older customers may simply want to chat.
“Seniors will come in, and their highlight of the
day is to talk,” Slyter said. “My wife has three or
four of the older men who come in just to talk to
her. She can take the time to have that conversa-
tion. You get to know your customers by their first
name.”
Grocery Outlet in King City is always ready to
help the surrounding community.
“We gave, probably, more than $30,000 back to
the community last year. We focus on the schools,”
Slyter said. “We do everything we can with Tigard
High School, Tualatin High School, Newberg High
School — all of the grade schools around here. We
do food banks. We don’t have to say, ‘I’m sorry,
we’ve given all we can.’”
The only down side, Slyter cautions customers,
is that deeply discounted items may go quickly.
“You need to come here first and get what you
can get,” he tells his customers. “If you come here
first, I guarantee you’ll save a ton of money. That’s
why my wife and I got in this business. We feel
we’re delivering a service to our customers.”
The Slyters are not the least bit shy in meeting
new customers. In fact, they’ll drop what they’re
doing to say hello.
“Every new customer who comes in here, they
(employees) call me up, or my wife,” Slyter said.
“We meet them, we say who we are, we give them
a $3 off card from our business and say, ‘We appre-
ciate your coming in.’”
Slyter sums up the Grocery Outlet experience
this way: “Good deals, great service. We’re family
owned.”
THE GROCERY OUTLET
What: An extensive wine section (including wines from
around the world), groceries, frozen foods, housewares,
health and beauty products — all at deep-discount prices.
Where: 15705 S.W. 116th Ave. King City
Phone: 503-968-8991
Web: www.groceryoutlet.com
A dollar goes farther at the Grocery Outlet
SUBMITTED PHOTO:
SCOTT KEITH
Owners of Grocery
Outlet in King City,
Tony and Tina Slyter,
offer a wide variety of
wines at discounted
prices.