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Grocery chain plans to bring its first Colorado store to the Denver metro

Mar 26, 2025, 3:44 PM | Updated: 4:00 pm

There was talk for awhile that Colorado may be getting Piggly Wiggly stores. That won’t be happening in the near future, but we are getting a new-to-us chain.

An Idaho-based grocery store chain is looking to expand to the Denver-metro area, bringing its budget-friendly offerings to Colorado for the first time.

Pre-application documents submitted to the City of Thornton describe WinCo Foods’ plans to construct an 84,000-square-foot grocery store on land at the southeast corner of East 164th Avenue and Washington Street.

Winco Foods also revealed a possible location in Firestone earlier this month.

WinCo Foods is an employee-owned grocery chain known for its warehouse-style stores, low prices, bulk items, with customers bagging their own groceries.

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