PCC Natural Markets – View Ridge

I’m a member who lives close by but I’d rather shop at other locations. The selection is less than at other stores but they’ve done a good job paring down the selection for a smaller store. The issue I have with this location is the service. The cashiers act like you aren’t even there. They continue conversations with the bagger and don’t bother giving you eye contact or addressing you verbally. Rude & unwelcoming.

I know this place is small, but I kind of like that. And bedsides, if they made the building bigger, there would be less parking, not to mention the environmental impact of construction. If it’s not one thing it’s another and honestly experiences and quality are more important to me.
My experience has been good, as I have shopped here several times at this point. I love their produce selection and back in November, a gent by the name of Wil, who was stocking apples, helped me find the tastiest ones to bring to CA to share with my friends in baked and fresh format. This is how I discovered the joys of the Opal apple variety. In CA, there wasn’t the same variety of apples and pears as up here, and it’s really magnificent to have been introduced to such a gem. So thanks, Wil!
Otherwise, I have found the prices and quality to be comparable to Whole Foods (often better) and I love the different to-​go offerings like the (revelatory) grilled olives (!!!) and such. I’m a flexible shopper and tend to search for the good deals to guide the way I will eat. It’s more fun that way, but I don’t have a family, so I understand peoples’ frustrations with that sort of thing. Not my circus/​monkeys, though!
Sometimes it seems like the checkout folks don’t know what to do with someone being nice to them. Maybe I’m just more outgoing than the usual clientele. I dunno.
But it’s my little local co-​op and I like it the way it is. :)

Yum! PCC has very good food. It is pretty expensive but it is okay for the quality. They have very good bakery food like breadsticks and donuts. Good food for a quick run for lunch or breakfast. Very good.

I luv PCC, and am a co-​op member. This location is not my favorite — it’s much smaller with fewer options overall.
It does still have great produce, bulk section, bulk coffee, deli counter and «bakery». Usually hit this spot when I’m on the run and need something quick when I’m in the area.
I prefer the Greenlake Village or Fremont locations.

There is a PCC right across the park that I take my niece to sometimes or just go to relax. It’s perfect being able to stop in for my favorite coconut-​based ice cream and local foods on my way home! That, and they give kids one fruit free to eat while they’re roaming the grocery. Co-​ops are definitely the way to go.

A small neighborhood sized PCC compared to the one in Fremont.
It is in a good spot, right across from where the 71 bus stop is.
This one is alright and has a decent selection of veggies and fruits that I am usually am looking for. Downside is the slow cashier service.

PCC is my favorite grocery store in Seattle. They have a great selection of organic foods, and source locally as much as possible. The workers are helpful, friendly and knowledgeable. And I love their soups, deli items and hot food bar. My only complaint is that it’s expensive, but I believe in treating my body well and buying the highest quality food possible. So this is where I come! As a member, I receive a 10% off coupon every month which helps keeps costs down.

This tiny grocery store is cozy and is good for a quick beer and cheese run — they have an excellent selection. The parking lot is, like the store, tiny, so don’t be surprised at the difficulty of getting in and out of there between 5−7pm! Looking for a Chinook Book? They’re in stock here. Want to donate clothes and shoes to folks in need? There’s a collection bin out back. This store really gives you the feel of being a part of a community. It gives me warm fuzzies.

I really like this store. Some people told me they do not like PCC because of over-​priced products and I thought so at the beginning. Nevertheless, I keep coming to PCC because I want to take good care of my body with good healthy food and finally I came to appreciate and understand why PCC is good. The service — . They are very helpful and so far I only have good experiences there. For example, the lady who is probably in charge of natural medicine section is very knowledgeable and she was very helpful to find out a product as one of the solution of my health issues which have troubled me a lot and visited several clinics without vain. And the guy at the drink and deli section on the back is also helpful. The other day, I was so thirsty in a very hot day and wanted to drink cold green or Chinese tea but ice tea they serve was only iced herbal tea so I asked him to make iced Chinese tea from hot tea with a tea bag and he not only prepared me for this but also he gave me a cup with full of ice so I can drink very cold Chinese by adding lots of ices and I regained energy. The reason why I put four star is because of too small size with limited selection. But because of the service, I will come again.

I lived in this neighborhood last summer, and stopped by here quite often. I’ve popped in here again recently. This is a super small grocery store. It also has traditional PCC high prices. They do have a full deli, and bakery items. The veggie selection is ok, as it takes up much of the store. It is the traditional high-​priced PCC fruit and veggie choices, however, sometimes the produce looks a little wilted. The deli is ok; I have a strong addiction to the vegan bakery items at PCC markets.
The customer service here is just meh– when they discontinue something or I have a question about bringing out fresher fruit, they just kind of say they don’t know. It’s frustrating. For the prices, I wish they were a little more helpful. The cashiers here do not understand the concept of speed. They have to be the slowest I have ever seen.

I’m here for lunch about 4 days out of the week. The deli food is really good and EVERYONE that works here are super nice and helpful! I love this pcc!

Love this little PCC. I dont know why I didnt write a review before. It was on the way to work for years and near a relative.
True, their stock is small= it is a small store with a neighborhood feel. The cusrtomer service was always highly friendly. People will help you find things. no problem.

Again, one of the smaller satellite stores than compared to the massive homestores in Fremont and Edmonds.
You’ll still find most of the regularly carried PCC brands, but on a much much smaller scale here, expect your options to be limited if you’re used to going to the other stores. The deli is still fantastically amazing, but the hot foods could use some serious help along with more cashiers!

we shop at this PCC a LOT. the customer service at this location is usually good but there have been some moments.
great organic selection, awesome produce, some decent deli selections. FREE fruit for your kids (and they get to choose; it’s not a rotten banana like at whole foods).
loses a star for small size, sometimes not having a key ingredient to a recipe, a little expensive, and for not having a meat counter like at whole foods.
big bonus though: you can ask the meat guys to cut the meat any way you wish and they’ll just repackage it for you.

Love all the PCC’s! This is the location I end up at most often. It’s not as large as the Greenlake and West Seattle locations, but they still have a good selection and a great deli. It’s not a place to go for cheap food, but the prices are reasonable for the quality you receive.

Neighborhood place, kinda tiny but filled with all kinds of soup love!
When the rain pounds down, and even on the days when it just drizzles, we head over to PCC for warm comforting soup, fresh bread, and a few healthy deli items for a lazy, healthy throw-​down dinner.
Tips:
Grab the fish soup if they have it: it’s great. Pick a loaf of the PCC Valkorn bread. Perfect pairing!
The deli salads are some of the most inventive and healthy we’ve had, while somehow still being actually tasty. We love their über fresh kale cole slaw, moroccan eggplant, protein salad (with garbanzo beans), tahini cauliflower, & sweet potato kale salad. But honestly, these are just the favorites of what we’ve tried, so its probably hard to miss on the prepared deli items. Grab a few yummies and given em a try.
They have a solid selection of other items, but not a huge selection. For me, this place is all about the quick, fast, fresh take-​away on those laziest of lazy rainy days.
P. S. This is my favorite secret spot for well-​price and delectable cupcakes. Their mini cuppie cakes are sensational –both their full butter and their chocolate vegan mini cupcakes are super-​duper delicious, and at a price that leaves their competition in the dust!

Oh, man. You know. I should get some things out of the way. I am a student on a budget, however when I do spend my money I spend it (perhaps unwisely) on all natural stuff and consider this sort of store the food equivalent of LUSH.
I have to say I did not like that most of the other shoppers were messy, frenzied and inconsiderate yuppies. I am recovering from a back injury and simply going from bagging some lightweight greens to the scale was a task– and the place is postage stamp sized so I had about forty people swirl around me like water around a boulder in a stream in the two minute span I was in the admittedly beautiful produce section.
But the produce was ridiculously expensive even with the sale (of course the borderline insane woman who looks like Madam Hooch from HP didn’t give me the sale price, but we’ll get there) I got.
Its was as if moving out of the way was literally painful for most of them. The force and frequency of passive aggressive sighing sounded like a state park rest stop full of semis all releasing their air brakes in unison.
I would not say this place was for hippies. Hippies usually are pretty broke, and do not wear thousands of dollars in furs and Chinese child crafted sports wear.
I guess you would need to wear sports wear to the grocery store, to navigate this PCC! If I treated the severe personality problems most of the other shoppers had with incredibly cautious civility usually they would let me walk past them.
The place was filthy too– granola, spinach and nuts all over the floor.
By the time I got to the check out line my back felt like it was on fire and I put my basket on the little conveyor belt and put a little divider between me and some woman ahead of me.
Some guy with about fourteen tons of veggies was freaking out behind me because it was hard for him to reach the little divider stick.
OKay, fine apparently a diet high in level 37 super organic kale doesn’t do anything for your personality.
While the Madam Hooch Doppelgänger slowly rang up the woman infront of me, she turned to me and stopped scanning (even though she wasn’t done with the person before me) and told me, «Could you unload that (basket) and go stack it over there for me?»
I had no idea where over there was because the angry man with a burial mound sized load of veggies was shifting back and forth in place as if it was some kind of cashier rain dance to make the process go quicker– maybe he had to pee, I don’t know.
As I moved slowly (out of pain, not some level 99 passive aggressive yuppie technique) to look for where I was supposed to stack the basket.
this angered madam hooch. (look it up if you need to) She then started into this rapid fire, very one sided discussion, about my damn basket.
Note– she had still not collected payment or finished ringing up the person ahead of me.
She said, «I can take the basket when you’re done, if THAT is what you want.» At this point I was kind of worried she was having a mental breakdown because although I was slow, I was clearly unloading the basket as she had briskly demanded.
But I was pretty slow because of, you know, the BACK INJURY. I paused to look at her when she spoke though– and she wasn’t done.
” Or I GUESS I could unload it for you? Is that what’s happening? You can just tip everything out of the basket. Just tip it. Just go ahead and tip it. Tip the basket.“
There were three, tiny things in my basket. I was done while she was talking.
She was still not done with the woman ahead of me and the guy behind me was acting like he was experiencing the beginning stages of a zombie virus.
I felt like I was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest. After the crazy woman collected payment from her other customer ahead of me and took the basket from me after another, similar lengthy verbal exchange that consisted mostly of me hoping she didn’t bludgeon me with an under ripe winder squash she very snottily asked me how it was going.
It was the first time since she laid eyes on me, that she allowed me time to speak. I told her I was recovering from a back injury and she launched into a massive dissertation on the holiness of her request I unload my own basket (which, I swear to god I had no problem doing!) she was like a really angry small dog.
She had a tirade prepared. She treated me to it. then when she didn’t give me the sale price on my mushrooms, I went over the cash I had in my pocket.
I knew if I went to the car to get a quarter the already apparently, emotionally broken man behind me would lose his mind. so the very angry cashier fronted me the 17 cents.
Yeah, sorry Madam Hooch– but that doesn’t make up for torturing me because I am temporarily disabled.
That is akin to stealing someones towel at the gym every day for a month, and then reminding them not to leave their water bottle behind.
Never again. Never going back again.

1* for quaintness
1* for cuteness
1* for closeness
1* for preparedness-​you always have the items I buy in stock
1* for shrewdness-​giving 10% off on case purchases
1* for openness– 7 – 11
Too bad i can’t give a «6»

I love me some PCC! Its not as great as my fav co-​op (in Olympia), but is the best I’ve found in Seattle. The staff are sooooo knowledgeable and friendly, and you can pretty much try anything in the store. They will even print out the deli recipes for you to take home so you can cook it yourself! Their deli (actually the whole store) has amazing, tasty, healthy food. Everything in the store that is gluten free has a different colored label (orangeish I think). And yes, somethings are very expensive, but if you shop smart you can actually save money. The rice bread is cheaper here than anywhere else in Seattle that I’ve found, as is the sprouted tofu and sunshine burgers. If you buy local produce, it is comparable to non-​organic stores, too. And the service! They are so sincerely friendly and go out of their way to help!

There is only one review for this place?!
You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me!
This is a nice little neighborhood PCC and I like it a lot. The produce selection is great, there are some delicious sweets and deli items, and plenty of other edible (and non-​edible) products available. It’s definitely a bit pricey and not as big as the Roosevelt Whole Foods, but they’ve got some good local stuff in stock and I like that.
Useful tid-​bit: There’s bulletin board with all kinds of local services/​info on the side of the building that faces the park. It says they clean it out every 2 – 4 weeks, so everything that is on there is pretty fresh.