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• A different experience . . .

I stopped in here with my family today. At first we thought it was a nice little store, and it is . . . sort of. Good selection of natural foods in a place that otherwise has only a Safeway. However the longer we stayed the more we detected a totalitarian, self righteous attitude. I asked if there was Kombucha and received an annoyed and flat 'no' in response. The kind that did not invite debate. I would note in retrospect that there were no alcoholic beverages of any kind in the store and kombucha has a small and insignificant amount of alcohol in it. Apparently any is too much. A few minutes later I heard a customer ask if they carried coffee and the man replied "we try to keep this a health food store." Now I don't want to debate whether coffee is healthful or not, but I can tell you that its much less harmful than cane sugar, which they carry an abundance of in different forms. Skip the poisons if you want, but spare your customers the self righteous anger and judgement. I honestly felted condemned and despised for wanting kombucha and I can promise you those requesting either of these two items will find similar intolerant and haughty attitudes. I for one would have appreciated a warning that this store was run by angry religious types. If you don't want either of those two things your experience may differ. A tofurky sandwich in the middle of nowhere goes a long way, but this is just down the road from the tofurky factory, and an hour from Portland.