Natural Grocers

Natural Grocers is smaller than other natural and organic groceries in Bend. Got some yummy delicious juices and chips to snack on. Great customer service and they also have good selection of everything – from deli food, treats, and even body care. Nice customer service: the workers are really nice and friendly. A great place to start shopping for healthier alternatives: D

I Heart Natural Grocers! They have amazing prices and a great selection of items for those attempting to eat a cleaner diet. They also have a great selection of organic junk food too! This is my go to stop for food, treats, and body care!

Love this store!!! ALL ORGANIC produce, excellent bulk, supplement, and body care sections. Their prices and quality are the BEST for natural and organic foods compared to the competition. The company is obviously committed to health and nutrition, because they carry the cleanest and best brands of products. It’s so nice to shop and just grab items without needing to read labels, knowing there isn’t any junk in the product. All the folks working there are super nice too. Oh, and I like that you have to bring your own bag or reuse a box. All stores should do this!

Bright and clean store with a good variety of natural foods and products. We stopped by for breakfast on the go and found some yummy breakfast burritos in the grab and go section.
They have a microwave and a seating area at the front of the store so we took advantage of that to chow down and get back on the road.

Good prices & extremely gracious & helpful staff (except Tracy @ checkout). There is a seating area but no deli unfortunately. Hopefully that is yet to come! Good GF options and wide selection of fresh nuts & grains. The store did not pop up on the iPhone map when searching for health food or natural grocery but Tracy at checkout could not have been less interested. My experience with all the other helpful staff members & good prices will lead me to definitely shop here again though.

Just love this store! Their prices are decent and the produce section is so beautifully fresh. They also carry some items I have trouble finding elsewhere, like Savoy/​Napa cabbage. Everything always looks like it came straight from a picturesque garden, and it changes with what is available that week.
They have a large refrigerated bulk section that I appreciate, and you can get all sorts of healthy snacks at a great price. Their bakery section is limited, though, which is a bummer.
A few things I love from this store — the fact that they don’t use bags (bring your own, or they have boxes), the Willamette Pies (perfect size, perfect price), and their great ice cream selection.
This place isn’t our main grocery store, but it’s closer and cheaper than Whole Foods, so it’s definitely in my regular rotation.

I come to this store for one reason only, Booda Butter Lip Balm. $ 3.19 a tube and the only place in town that I’ve found it. So, awesome.
What I like about this store, aside from the lip balm is that you HAVE to bring your own bags. There are no bags, some boxes, but no bags. Good for them for putting some tough love on us.

This new grocery store is a pleasant surprise. If you appreciate good-​quality alternative groceries, this seems to be new destination in town.
It’s got that Whole Foods vibe — and the same aromatic ambience: the moment you walk in, you smell the combination of expensive creams and soaps, exotic spices, and rubbed wood that seems typical of this entire organic grocery segment.
It’s smaller than Whole Foods but larger than Nature’s. Nice selection of organic vegetables and some interesting alternative brands and offerings. It may be a bit tricky for me to fit this into my regular grocery shopping cycle, but now that I’ve checked it out, I’m going to try.

I’m still a new customer here, but this store hits the mark in every department. Their prices are AWESOME and I would feel confident about buying anything in this store without worrying.
I’m impressed with the grab and go foods, and there is a nice selection of local items, including salads from Mother’s! As a gluten and dairy free eater I’m always in search of convenient and ready to eat type foods as they can be really hard to find.
The supplement selection is huge and I look forward to exploring it more. Shopping here is going to replace Whole Foods for me and save me so much money!!!

You are our favorite grocery store but your animal hating security guard/​property policy has to go! Bend is known for being a dog, bike, and commute options friendly community! This is the only shopping area I have heard of in my life that does not allow dogs! With the problem of dogs in hot cars people are campaigning against and now the frigid, WAY below freezing temperatures we live with here it is ridiculous and cruel to ban dogs from being leashed outside any store in your mall area. My husband just walked a mile there to get groceries and was turned away, told he could not even tie the dogs leashes up anywhere nearby! This commercial shopping area speciesism needs to end! Or we will be forced to shop at trader joes and buy their gross plastic wrapped produce from Mexico, because we live on this side of town!!!

Super friendly employees. Delicious produce! Huge vitamin/​supplement section. Although it’s small, every time I’ve been here, I’ve been able to find everything I need. I mainly stop in here for «quick trips», since it’s convenient to my house, and relatively easy to get in and out of the parking lot, etc. (unlike TJs and WFs).
Bring your own bags, as they don’t have any paper or plastic. They do sell some very nice quality, and good looking grocery baskets and bags though.
They also have items/​brands I have never seen anywhere else, so I go here for variety.

Thank God for Natural Grocers. Their selection is limited but just happens to include everything I need so it’s not a negative for me. No deli but that gives me an excuse to roll over to Whole Foods and keep an eye on the yuppies.
Prices are equal to or a bit less than Whole Foods.
I love their vitamin /​supplement /​beauty section. If you need me, I’ll be wandering the aisles for 45 minutes.

Overall I was pretty impressed with Natural Grocers’ selection. They had a good variety of produce and I was happy to find a nice selection of full fat organic milks and yogurts as well. Their prices were reasonable. My only issue (really just more of a bummer for us) is that a lot of their seeds, flours, cereals, nuts, dried fruits, etc are bulk items that the company packages themselves and sells. I wasn’t able to buy any of these products because they are all packaged in a facility that packages nuts. A member of our family has a severe nut allergy so due to the possibility of cross contamination, we can’t buy any of those items. If cross contamination wasn’t an issue for us, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy any of their packaged bulk items (they had a great selection!). Overall, I really liked the store and we’ll be back.

Great store. Wonderful produce. Nothing conventional in here! Maybe play music a little louder to fill the space. Hope this place makes it!

Opened as of August 27 in the Bend River Promenade (the Sear’s /​Macy’s mall). I was prepared to «pooh pooh» this store, part of a chain owned by Colorado based corporation which also owns Vitamin Cottages of which I am not a fan. But the friendly and well informed staff, good selection of products and competitve prices on organic and sustainable products I buy as well as food supplements leaves me a fan based on my first shopping visit.
If what I heard from customers shopping around me is any indication, there were other new fans in the store today too. Parents of all ages saying to children of all ages and vice versa «Isn’t this cool» or one partner saying to another ««What a great buy on this». That kind of thing. The interesting thing was that as some of us talked to others of us, we all seemed sort of surprised to find the store to be what it is. Expectations exceeded as it were.
Here are a few of the many things that caught my eye this first visit in…
…ample fresh produce, all seemed organic, at good prices with Oregon and Washington products clearly marked.
…they keep their bulk sealed bags of raw and toasted nuts in a refrigerator case.
…a nice selection of 2% Fage yogurt. Ninety percent of what is on most shelves is fat free. I’m a fan of dairy fat in yogurt. It’s nice to have choices here.
…Colorado based Noosa yogurt in lots of flavors. Makes sense, perhaps, since Natural Grocers is also a Colorado company. Only Whole Food has Noosa locally but in limited flavors and a big bonus here is the regular price is a cent lower than WF’s sales price.
…Zum soap in bars and in liquid form for Frankincense & Myrhh which is fabulous to keep by the kitchen or bathroom sink. (It will make kids… make that everyone… want to wash their hands.)
…from level in entry and throughout the generous aisles, the store was nicely accessible
…for folks looking for food supplements, they have arguably the best selection in Bend for breadth and depth with prices on par with Whole Foods for same.
They do not have the fresh cheeses, seafood and meat sections you’ll find at Whole Food and Newport Avenue Market (two of my favs for shopping) nor the array of local products carried and highlighted at each of those stores, nor the fresh deli section either. But the staff here was as friendly, if not yet as polished, as those full grocery retailers and that is high praise.
THIS N THAT:
1) Natural Grocers apparently offers free health coaching to customers – including individualized nutrition sessions and meal planning — which is a great marketing tool to encourage customers to buy products there.
2) There is a community room at the front of the store where shoppers can help themselves to free coffee or tea. (Wifi too I think.) They also conduct demonstrations and classes in this space; todays’ flyer said the discussion this evening would be «Everything is better with bacon».
3) Current hours are roughly 9a to 8p seven days a week and open most days a year (except Christmas, Thanksgiving and a few others.)