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PCC announces Bellevue store to open Aug. 12

August 12, 2020 at 5:42 pm

PCC opens Bellevue grocery store and plans to move its Kirkland location to a larger site

The moves by PCC Community Markets are expanding the Seattle-based co-op grocery chain's Eastside presence.

Cate Hardy, chief executive officer of PCC Natural Markets, Thursday, March 24, 2016, at Green Lake Village branch in Seattle.

May 22, 2020 at 5:06 pm

PCC Markets CEO Cate Hardy leaving to run huge wine company

PCC Community Markets said late Friday that CEO Cate Hardy is leaving the co-op to become CEO of The Wine Group, the second-largest winemaker in...

January 7, 2020 at 9:43 am

PCC to open a store in Seattle Central District space abandoned by New Seasons

The Seattle-based co-op grocery chain continues its expansion tear, opening what will be its 14th store later this year.

A 20,000-square-foot PCC Community Markets store will anchor the Rainier Square tower, scheduled to open in 2020. The grocery store will be on the right, with an entrance on Fourth Avenue, in this rendering of the building’s northwest corner. (Rendering credit: NBBJ)

March 9, 2018 at 5:00 am

PCC will put grocery in heart of Seattle’s downtown

PCC will be the anchor retail tenant on the ground floor of the 58-story Rainier Square project. With a mix of shops, restaurants, offices and...

Rendering of a new PCC Community Markets location planned to open in Ballard in spring 2019.

January 4, 2018 at 5:17 pm

PCC Community Markets is coming to Ballard

The Ballard store will sit right across from a Trader Joe’s and be within walking distance of several other grocery stores in the neighborhood. The...

PCC is planning a publicity push around its name change, including billboards such as the one shown in this rendering which will be at First Avenue South and South Spokane Street in SoDo. (Courtesy of PCC)

September 13, 2017 at 12:01 am

PCC rebrands to emphasize its local roots

With the big conventional grocers carrying more and more organics, and competitors including Portland-based New Seasons and now Amazon-owned Whole Foods encroaching on PCC’s traditional...

A customer at the new PCC store in Bothell checks out hte huge supply of bulk items available at the store Thursday, September 15, 2016. The store, which opened in July, is one sign of how PCC is evolving to meet changing consumer tastes/needs. It has an open kitchen (where people can see PCC staff making the food), a big produce department that’s designed to feel more like a farmer’s market, checkout registers by the wall rather than front and center, and a rotisserie.

June 16, 2017 at 4:34 pm

PCC chief says natural foods chain isn’t threatened by Amazon-Whole Foods deal

Seattle-based natural foods co-op PCC Natural Markets has competed with both Whole Foods and Amazon for years and held its own, said Cate Hardy, PCC’s...