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• Vegetarian supermarket

This market is quite big! It's a vegetarian store, sadly not a vegan one and they put a lot of focus on specialty cheeses :( They have a great variety of vegan foods, including loads of tofu (including smoked, basil tofu and other assortments you can't get anywhere else), they have all cheeses by Myioko's, all versions of Tofurky salami and other vegan foods that are not so common and hard to find. Some products are pricier than at major health food stores but not by much, maybe 10-20% depending on the product. I love that they have a huge section of bulk products including spices, nuts and seeds, grains, nut butters. They started allowing selling meat on the premises. Please let them know you're not supporting this ! Recently they started subletting what used to be their outdoor café to a place that sells meat Seed The Commons ( an association working for the creation of small-scale, sustainable, animal-independent food systems) has been gathering a petition to ask them not to allow selling meat on the premises. When delivering the petition the management refused to speak with them and called the police. This is the statement by Seed The Commons posted on their Facebook page on 22/06/2016: "Today, a few of us delivered the 786 signatures to our petition to Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, to ask them not to allow meat to be served on the premises of their store. Some members of the Board of Directors came to the front desk, said that they would not discuss the issue with us, asked us to leave, and called the police. We were simply there to deliver signatures and speak with them about an issue that they ignored for months. It was not a protest. We had no signs or banners, nobody raised their voice, nobody addressed the shoppers or got in the way of their movement. All of us were Bay Area residents who have often given Rainbow our business and encouraged others to do the same. We brag about our local vegetarian coop when we leave the Bay Area. Many of us have friends who work at Rainbow and we considered it a very real part of our community. The wholly excessive and dismissive reaction to our request for dialogue was shocking. To refuse to speak with us is bad enough, but to call the police within a few minutes of our arrival shows that Rainbow not only has no sense of proportion, they have also lost all connection to the local community. Sadly, our boycott of Rainbow Grocery stands." Updated from previous review on 2016-07-17