Reviews of Kootenay Co-op Grocery Store (Butcher Shop)

Shawna Bekkema

The lunch is good but so expensive

wayne marion

Good quality. A little pricey

Joel V

This grocery store has grown a lot since I lived here in 2009.

Jaymes Bowman

A blessing to the community. It is an honor, privilege, and delight to shop here ❤️

Susan Skidmore

I was part of the 'Learning in Retirement' group who were given a great tour of the coop this morning. I particularly liked the power-point presentation and talk, reminding us that we members are a 'we' who look beyond just the price of food, but towards the many ways that a unique food coop such as this works for and with the Community, unlike the large profit making chains. I have particularly enjoyed, in the last year, eating in the café. The self serve option lets me take as much or little as I want that day and the food is delicious. I see so many enthused and happy people working at the co-op and am continually finding new and wonderful things to try. Keep up the great work.

Jane Walters

Amazing variety, servicing all possible dietary needs!! Didn't want to leave!

Kate Friesen

They have decent prices on bulk goods and awesome customer service

Bob Nunn

Quirky cool organic co-op. Great selection, prices a little high but great spot and recommended.

Brennen Kennedy

This place has a bunch of everything! Tons of options and nice staff, I will be back!

Julia Garcia

Had a good caramel macchiato and was thankful for wifi!

Zoe Laisnez

Good produce, lots of excellent brands, hard to find products

M e

Coop of the Gods.

Doug Strath

Not at all impressed. Pricey and unless you pay the $50 yearly membership there are no deals. I don't go to this place enough to make paying a membership fee at all worth it.

Jaison Mampilly

Organic food products are stocked always

Pascal Lemieux

Pricey.

Rubenoff Johnson

Good food friendly

Drew Gilmore

Clean. Great selection of food and pre-prepared foods.

lawn mower girl

THE best place to get all natural products.

Teague Urquhart

Amazing place

Michael Sodergren

Great co-op. Everything you'd expect in a market and more. Like the sourced locally freshness.

North Reisende

One of the best places to get organic foods. It’s not your normal grocery store. They strive to provide environmentally, healthy choices, and try to sell products that are produced through fair trade practices.

Laura Carolina

Spacious store with fresh, organic produce, salad bar, olive bar and a healthfood store vibe. Worth joining!

Shanna Casseyas

(Translated) Great all you need and more! I recommend this place. The dining area is very nice. (Original) Génial tout ce qu'il faut et plus encore! Je recommande cet endroit. Le coin restauration est très agréable.

Wayne Lundeberg

Great store. Super staff, extensive organic selection of food and products. A bit pricey.

Wyatt Miller-Unser

Coop is what's up, all local organic products, knowledgeable staff and all super friendly. Prices are high but products are very high end. If visiting from out of town ask to use guest membership to get deals. Cheese selection is excellent and the variety for natural hair/beauty products can't be beat.

Steve Daschuk Realtor

Great selection ????

michael Freund

A great experience any time I shop there, the coop is one of the biggest attractions of this community.

My Bc

WoW .it was good before at its old location on Baker St...but now at it's new bigger location and parking convenience has become a Nelson go to shop location for quality foods/health of life.

Bunny Brooks

Great grocery store excellent products helpful staff a bit over priced but great local foods and a real great feeling warm and friendly

Dirk Jonker

Nice store, but very cramped. Staff is helpful. It can be expensive purchasing all your groceries from here. Great selection of natural, organic foods.

Ann Wilson

All organic and has local food. Q bit pricey but those things cost

Jamie Cote

Natural, sustainable, lovely staff.

Gustavo Andres Rizzatti

(Translated) Attention first very good! (Original) Atencion de primera muy bueno !!

Ray Thomas

Good variety, a bit on the pricey side

Yogi Life

Great selection, I love the salad + soup bar. Great bulk section too.

Brianne Morris

Their hot bar serves excellent food. Good customer service. They sell yerbs for not too expensive. Good choice of organic food, lots of vegetarian and vegan options (:

Jean-Rene

Nice and fully organic!

Jody Waskahat

I still don't really get the lay out of the store. But really great produce. Best I've seen in a while in a grocery store. But there was nooo way I was gonna pay $30 for a cooked chicken. I don't care if it was fed organic kale and whole grain sprouted wheat. But good store.

Charmaine Dupont

Lovely staff throughout the store. An amazing abundance of food and non-food items and a good selection of pre-made take away items. All of which to the well traveled consumer seem overpriced and inaccessible to the average shopper. I have been in the store only a hand full of times and one of those times wanted to buy a healthy handful of unsalted bulk nuts that came out to $9 at the register. I politely to the cashier no thank you and walked out. I rarely go into this store. I only go in if I can't find an item in other stores.

Jelmer Schuurman

Not the Co-Op you’d expect when you are familiar with the “normal” coop grocery stores. It looks super clean but the prices are extremely high. Ice cream, few peaches and milk... $35! Turns out it’s more of a health food store. Wish I went to Save On instead. Mainly for the 6 peaches that we ended up paying over $15 for!

Shel Don

Amazing health and grocery store.

David Gagnon

Have been here a few times when passing through Nelson and I love it. So nice to have a dedicated organic produce section, so I can just find what I know and not be limited by the little organic section that most stores have in a corner.

Kiara Lynch

Sweetest personnel and best selection of healthy foods in town!

Lily Bogus

New location is great!

Dyllan Lachelt

Shortest line ups in town, and all the staff have a well rounded knowledge of where stuff is. Pricing is surprisingly competitive, and the cafeteria is amazing.

sebastian martin

Pretty good selection of locally outsource Foose items.

Adele Summers

wonderful selection of whole and organic foods. Tons of fresh choices

K Kealey

This place is quite pricey. Since we were just finishing it was a nice spot to try Kombucha on tap but a basket of nectarines (small) was $10- yikes.

alek k

A little pricey, but the only place in town with an incredible selection of vegan, health and whole foods. Try the cafeteria

Barbara Rokeby

A bit too 'granola' for my taste. We were traveling and could not buy a carton of milk. Only glass bottles. A huge cosmetic department in the center of the store makes finding things a bit awkward. That being said, the meat department and salad bar were good.

Dion

Local, friendly, great deli

Guy Gilbert

Ok

Michael Walmsley

Amazing sandwiches, high quality produce and groceries, and super friendly, approachable and kind staff!!

Marilyn Cox

New location, great selection. Can be pricey and busy. Free parking in their own lot, we managed to find a spot even on a Saturday. Very helpful and friendly staff.

Kate Burnham

I just spent 19$ on heirloom tomatoes and I have no regrets

c h

Great selection.

Crawford Girl

Nice selection of produce but really expensive! I'm only going to go there for occasional specialty items

Chris Demler

Great store. Terrific selection.

TeYe Dubious

Best organic grocery store in the Kootenays.

Daniel Morton

Excellent food, great business to support.

James Wilson

Excellent gluten-free options!

Traci R

We love this store! We have been so pleased with the huge selection of organics, and the pricing is great. Most prices are the same or even slightly less than what we paid in Victoria, and the quality of the produce, meats, cheeses, breads, deli, etc. is so much better. We're very happy to be Co-Op members now.

David T Miller

Far too expensive. Everything is 3 or 4 times the price of a regular grocery store.

Cloé Bayeur-Holland

What an amazing Kootenay institution!

Valhalla Pines Campground & Guesthouse

My favorite place to eat and shop.

Laura Ogden

Wowsers. What an awesome shopping experience! They have everything and the space is really well laid out!

Kourtney Lovescats

Love the customer service and how happy staff is there is a great selection of organic produce and quality although tends to be a bit pricey hence the 4 star. Still love shopping there one of my favourite places.

Douglas Filiatrault

Lots of organic food lots of really healthy food but extremely expensive

Levi and Victoria Films

Love this place. Lots of local food and specialty items. They have macarons in their bakery + La Croix! We were parked here as we walked around and came back to find a boot on our car, but were happy to discover that our fine was a donation to a local charity instead of paying the city. Do not park here if you are planning to walk around town!

Shannon

Locals love this store. If you want to mingle with the rich and famous of Nelson, this is where to go.

Jody Ferguson

Great coffee shop too!

Skyler Reis

This is the worst grocery store I have ever been too. The prices are so steep you can easily spend $100 on organic vegetables only! You will shop here asking yourself "Were is my moneys worth?". Its absurd never a deal in sight. PS. Exploiting a niche market with exclusive membership policy is purely greedy.

Daniel Seguin

If organic is what you're looking for this is the grocery store for you. Pricey but you get what you pay for - good quality heathy food

Mariia van Eyk

Nice place. They always have fresh organic produce.

Sue Ellen

Love it! Very helpful staff.

Thomas Nowaczynski

Nelson's finest. The best local products, most happy and helpful staff, all buzzing with good energy.

Liam Sharelove

complete a holes

NILESH DESHPANDE (Nilesh D.)

Great range of Organic produced foods. Don't miss the Hot and Cold food served in the store its simply Delicious. Very nice to eat something while you are shopping in there. Very Nice Concept.

Brian

Incredible selection of items you won't find anywhere else

Terry Brennan

Love the new store. So much room to wheel around. And the folks in the meat department know what's going on.

Tina Louise Metzger

Great organic produce, good selection of local food products AND organic gummy cola bottles...!!! Life is now complete. ????????????????

Mia Gardiner

Wonderful grocery store. Local, organic and other options, a food bar and great coffee. A Nelson shopping experience.

Andrew Pfeffer

The salad bar is very pricey for what it offers

Nicole Perreault

Great selection of local organic items!

Liam Armstrong

Beautiful store, bring your wallet.

Kyle Sharpe

Best healthy grocery store around

Mayne Queen

Good products its on the pricey side which is ok because everything is organic.

K G (VanZwamo)

Organic selections and specialty foods are number 1 here, grab and go / hot food selection is pretty good. Sweets and coffee selection is excellent same goes for cafe. You will pay more than average here but u will have peace of mind knowing what you are putting in your body. Bring your own bag.

Jakob Isaak

Busy place, great variety! Not the cheapest place for sure, but worth it. Very fresh and great selection and quality! Check out if you’re in the area.

J Ouzel

Large complete health food store.

Dan Davies

A store for the gullible. They sell homeopathic products, 'special' water and pink Himalayan salt - catering to people with more money than sense.

David Cheatley

Great new spacious location, and all the stuff you can't find anywhere else. Staff is friendly and mostly informed. Things they don't know about are probably due to the new location.

Virginia Powers

I like the deli. Fresh food to go daily.

Monika Gilmore

Great grocery store with lots of prepared food options and a counter where you can order food as well. Super friendly staff and has plenty of options! Took one star off because it's organized in the strangest way compared with most grocery stores and co-ops.

La Petite Maison Registered Massage Therapy

Visiting Nelson this is the MUST SEE grocery store. Tons of delicious local goodies. Prices are reasonable for the quality of the food. Always clean and well stoked. Heaps of variety for all dietary needs. Glad this place exists....and their chocolate selection is on point.

Jeffrey Horton

My first venture inside the store since the onset of the Covid pandemic. I noticed that there was no line up to enter which normally seems to be the case, and I was rewarded with an easy and worry free trip through the store. As usual, there was no shortage of staff, which are knowledgeable and well trained. Unlike most of the other food stores, prices seem to be steady here, although nobody would say they are cheap. The most notable change, is the absence of the self serve buffet, which was a hugely popular feature of the new location. The parking lot is cramped and difficult to enter and exit, let alone park and is worth avoiding.

pink pink

Always friendly helpful Staff????

Ryan

Great reno! Good food, interesting and unique food products!

Desmond Brisbin

Wonderful and friendly people work at this local grocer. They pay close attention to what people want and their shelves are filled with a huge variety of local and organic goods. Definitely not the cheapest grocery store but for the food snobs out there I'm pretty sure even the bulk nuts here are grass fed and free range.

Remi Champagne

We love shopping at the Co-op and supporting local healthy food choices for our family. Thank you guys for your commitment to our community and the planet!

Amy van Bruggen

Amazing selection of wholesome and local foods. Excellent customer service. Best grocery shopping experience I’ve ever had. Love this place!

Purple Angel

Too damn expensive!

Ian Wallace

It has everything

MeadowSweet

High vibes. Workers seem happy. Carry and support local products.

Darryl Engerdahl

Outrageously expensive

Lyndon Liepert

Amazing selection but on the pricey side

Akshya Sarathy

Good but Little pricey.

Andrew Vliet

Can be a little expensive, but the products are good.

Paul Volchoff

If you love organic it's there. Nice community shopping experience. First time going there will wow you especially if you are from out of town.

Ian Samuelson

Stopped in while in town, and was blown away at the breadth and quality of the products sold here. A large amount of food and supplies for health minded people. Some common items like soaps, peanut butter are available in a BYO container fashion. A large cafe.

Maria Schuh

Wonderful selection of organic vegetables and local products! Their food bar is amazing!

Terence H

Expensive

Frank Case

Great selection of local meats cheeses and groceries.

Brendan Wheaton

Selection was amazing, everything was easy to find and the prices were about what you'd expect from a higher quality grocery store. The bulk section in particular was pretty great. Oh, being your own bags! They may have boxes to use, but doesn't look like a guarantee and there aren't bags for your purchases.

Ken Lo

Really like their no waste concept. I wish there were more stores in the kootenays that do this. Great selection of items and the baked goods are amazing.

Jason Babakaiff

Excellent shopping experience! Lots of helpful and friendly staff. It's not the cheapest place but you will discover many great grocery items and lots more. There's cool things to find around every corner. The co-op is probably my favorite grocery store to shop at.

Mike Goodwin

Love this place!! Huge Selection of Organic and Localy Farmed Foods!

Magda Munoz

I wish we had this store in Okanagan. I absolutely love this store. Anything and everything can be found here, especially if you are on a plant based diet. Highly recommend.

Nick Carere

Great place if you like organic food. They have everything. A good place to have a casual lunch as well.

Alejandra Guarneros

They have a huge variety of organic products!! Prices are average for organic products!

Sascha Uncia

Though they have a very good selection of local and organic products, their prices are among the highest in town. They do however have decent prices on their bulk goods, and can be a good place to look for hard to find ingredients.

Bryan Grace Lumacang

Not much selection and everything is pricy not good quality. Go save on foods.

Kaal Letawske

It's a great place to purchase real nutritious organic whole foods.

Lukas Fikr

Not allowed entry with full faceshield. Going to fill complaint with BBB and BC Business Bureau.

Allan Williamson

Leafy breakfast bought by weight on a plate great value wide table selections, great serviced questions.

Jim Fik

Great selection, nice store but way overpriced!

Alex P

Overpriced hipster grocery store, meh.

Clay Derouin

Really, really expensive.

Michal Koziol

Great selection of good products. Amazing customer service. Fabulous local tofu and kombucha!

EUGENE VANIDERSTINE

Good place to shop.

Willis Gilles

Love this place, price is high but it's cooperatively owned and has the best selection of organic, natural, local and made in house goods you can find anywhere even near the area. All the staff are super friendly and helpful and the options will have you feeling good about your food choices

Lyne Chartier

Love the coop, the friendly staff and the good. Perfect lunch place! I also appreciate that i can buy so much in bulk with my own containers even meat!

Ken Smuck

Great store nice folks

Aedan J. Osika

Great place, amazing service, and good foods

George I

It's a little expensive since the store is basically all organic but the quality is really good. You get what you pay for.

josh brady

Amazing selection of local sourced food, with tons of organic options and hot prepare foods. Pricey, but you get what you pay for!

Alan Bunyan

This place has a great selection and very helpful staff. Lots of gluten free options as well. Missed my Buffalo cheddar today, but maybe next time.

FUZE BOMB

Best organic health food store. New location is beautiful and easy to move around. The staff are very knowledgeable and friendly. The restaurant hot bar has amazing delicious healthy food. A unique hub to the community . Must visit . Your body and mind will thank you

Joann Pettis

Very expensive for everything

Chris Macmillan

Good selection of organic stuff

Trisha Weber

This is a great place for all your local organic and vegan needs. Their grab and go bar is definitely worth checking out!! By far the most delicious breakfast sandwiches in Nelson! ????

Tamara Ziemer

Great variety, friendly service

Karen Arnold

Staff are amazing and helpful. Prices are reasonable and selection is great

mark edwards

Very expensive...but top shelf products

Nick Malk

Sweet grocery store that feels like a farmer's market. Lots of unique options if you are looking for healthy foods or dietary options.

Chelsea Stunden

Great natural food selection.. Lots of vegan, dairy free, and gluten free foods that are labeled and easy to find. I tried their vegan brownie and it was very good!

Kathleen Wheeler

Awesome stuff but crazy expensive

Corey Yeatman

Amazing grocery store, wish we had one in Revelstoke!

John Soong

Lots of organic vegan and other healthy food.

J Whitey

Really nice location and great staff to assist. Wonderful cafeteria. Organic foods. Big variety. Huge health wellness area. Lots of parking.

Ben Glickman

Better than whole foods!

Preston Weist

Amazing store. Friendly staff. Super clean and modern. Lots of organic supplies and foods I've never even heard of before

Avery Marie Deboer-Smith

Lots of great local options to choose from!

Rhiannon Morgayne

Great selection of healthy products, vitamins, herbal remedies, additive free personal care products and more. The new location is huge and even includes a restaurant. If you're selective about food, like organic, or Non-GMO verified products, the Co-op is your best one stop shopping place. Lots of bargains if you're a member. Many grocery items are cheaper at the Co-op than at regular grocery stores. The staff are friendly and helpful too...and there's free parking. It doesn't get much better than this!

Katy Emanuel

Great grocery store. Their hot food offerings were great and my family really enjoyed the meals they ordered. Produce all looked great and was very tasty and fresh. Lots of unique offerings. Friendly helpful staff were easy to find throughout the store.

Krimble D

Great quality and selection, kind and helpful staff.

Alisa Mehmal

So many choices. Such a beautiful store.

Christopher Naegele

Great selection of top quality foods, a great hot food counter, and excellent staff.

Heather Woodward

A really cool grocery store. Lots of interesting and unique products.

Oliver King

Fantastic supermarket with excellent selection of organic/free range/locally sourced goods. Friendly staff. Hot food and cafe is excellent.

Noah S. Mondula

Overpriced. Rude.

Kaestrasza Whelpling

Cute store but a bit pricey

Tasha Kanigan

Great ambience, great products. Always love supporting local and exploring the Kootenay CoOp

Natalie Gauthier

Friendly staff. Great selection. Clean and bright inside.

J Moore

Bought some popcorn last week- kinda tasted stale- checked them out yesterday and saw weevils in them! Returned them yesterday and after a 1/4 hour of two employees fiddling about on the computer finally got a refund- no apology or obvious concern. They seemed in no hurry to check out their stock 20 feet away as well. I suppose if I had gone to the Health Department?

Steve Gentile's Business Email

High priced hippy food. Loading up for ski week, their prices were comparable to at resort cost. Everything and everyone in there looked the $400 outfit-to-look-organic cliché. Same with the food packages! !!!!

Connie Dewell

Love the store just cant afford shopping there

Brian Ellis

They do good work to bring in fresh local produce. It seems like the treat their staff very well and everyone working there seems really happy. I also know they do a lot of work with local food banks and things like that. But it would be nice if in store more effort was made to keep healthy options affordable for people on a lower income.

James Ng

The soup bones and meat organ when they are on sale are great, go to the freezers. But other imported organic food is overprice. Watch out for case lot sale in april and october. Some bulk food items are priced fairly and some food items are way overprice compare to other grocery stores.

Kamala Melzack

Love this place; has everything I ever need.

Mel Joy

Love the coffee shop!

Colleen M.T. Sharpe

Was amazed at how huge this healthy grocery store is. They have everything. Outstanding! Too bad for me it's far away.

Kirk Chantraine

Very friendly staff and nice selection of vegetarian pre-made foods! Great stop off before going for a hike.

Rebekah Humphrey

Love it. So health filled, clean and has almost everything I could think of!

karl bilodeau

Beat grocery store in the world

Gordon Swetlishoff

Very clean. Good covid rules and workers guiding

Neil Mayhew

Fantastic selection of wholesome and unusual foods! Great atmosphere, too.

mike k

Awesome cafe inside and great natural selection

Derek B

This is my favorite kind of store to go to. This place was brimming with fresh options and delicious treats. If you come here and leave without trying some of the macaroons in the bakery section (the mocha one is amazing!) you are missing out. I love that I can get loads of good products that don't have corn syrup in them. If you like to eat real food, buy it here.

Tammi K

This place is nice.

Kaitlyn Friesen

wow. i would shop my groceries there all the time if i could. ???? wonderful healthy, local, organic place.

Tanya Wright

Great spot to grab a bite to eat or stop for a coffee before doing your shopping. Nice atmosphere, relaxing and friendly.

marjie hills

I have shopped at the Co_op for years, well sourced products along with friendly and helpful staff keep me coming back.????

Katie Berry

Nice store! Quite pricey. :-(

Adrian Wagner

A local gem

Luke

Not so local. OK, so it's December and fruit & veg don't grow abundantly in Canada, but this is BC! Onion, zucchini, tomatoes (large and cocktail) were all from Mexico. Even Calgary Co-Op in Alberta has locally grown zucchini and tomatoes (greenhouse grown) all year round - now if they can do it... A very nice store in terms of shopping experience. Unfortunately prices feel like robbery in broad daylight, that no local to Nelson could afford.

Chrawna Biamonte-Demler

Great selection and service.

Clinton Work

They offer local organic food and the store is easy to access

Jordonzo

Pretty much the mecca of organic local, and specialty foods, nowhere else will you find such a good variety of healthy choices. They also have a great coffee bar , lunch bar , and deli. The only thing similar is whole foods, also they pay their staff well which in my books gives bonus points.

Kid Kootenay

really good store and the new building and location is awesome, Prices are better than they were in the past and can be surprisingly inexpensive on some things

jim f

Wonderful selection of goods but overpriced and hard to park.

Marisa Varley

Excellent array of organic vegetables, helpful and happy staff. Great buffet choices and a full selection of bulk supplies.

Julia Cedar

I love the food. Inspiring, fresh and always delicious. Super friendly member owned grocery store. And the cheese selection is amazing, you have to see it!

Zac M

Totally tubular, pandemic procedures are on lock!

Tracy Michaela Daniel

We love the coop. Do not need to be a member to shop. There are lots of great items you can buy in bulk to reduce the amount of waste and the variety is fantastic.

Morgan

Amazing store, wonderful staff

Jody Ashdown

They have it all, in a large store. Layout is a bit confusing but fun to look around

Michelle

Nice but pricey

Tristan Gagnon

Good food, lots of organic produce, it's a bit on the pricey side but high quality fresh locally grown produce seems to be a staple here

Tiny Life Big Adventure

One of the best grocery stores of all time every other grocery store should be taking note of the local atmosphere of the groceries. Love Kootenay co-op.

Nullskull

Amazing selection

Galen Elfert

Love this place. Great selection with an emphasis on local, independent suppliers, organic produce, and varied diets. The bigger brands are largely absent, but you can find pretty much everything you need. I don’t really shop anywhere else.

Brian McIntyre (Hatchi)

Health based food store and more.

justin kuiack

Great selection and very great staff

TM Gee

Nice grocery store, with a nice bakery and good selection of lunch food and wild fish (surprisingly bad sushi when I bought it tho... 90% rice), but everything is very expensive. Usually coops in Canada will have a balance of affordable and expensive local and conventional items, but this one is more of an an upscale US-style natural food store that you'd find in a big city.

Adolfo Andres Muñoz Enriquez

Very good groceries and expensive

White M

Came from Cranbrook.....neat store. Great to see locally made items on the shelves. Found the beard oil we were looking for. Another local store suggested this store to find the oil. Great teamwork from the local shops.

Barbie Wheaton

Great customer service, knowledgeable staff, and beautiful food bar!!

Leo Bartels

An amazing grocery store that I wish was in my town. I've shopped here often and always had good experiences. I've eaten at the food court and that is really good as well. It's not a cheap place but the quality is high. Public washrooms, yes.

Chris Penny

Driendly lady at the cash. Very welcoming.

James Mulvey

If high prices and a fictional sense of the world as an earth goddess is your thing, this is the place to be.

anshulee singh

Good place to find great quality stuff. If ur a member, they have good sales. The daily meals they prepare are delicious. If in a rush, that's the best place for a healthy meal.

Joseph

Feels like I'm back in Vancouver at Choices or Capers eating my favorite foods. I took one star off because much of the food is actually highly processed and packaged with corresponding high prices. In this respect, I think the co-op is backward looking and withdrawing from future success.

Marie-Chantal Perron

Very nice supermarket. Tons of organic and local products. Huge varieties of natural supplements as well. Nice customer service too.

Judy Mulloy

Local! Location! Local! Food that supports the local economy with dedicated hard working staff.

Tricia Timmermans

The soups here are scrummylicious

Joelle Axline

This is the only place I shop in Nelson. I can not wait till they move to their new location because the current one is a little cramped.

Kelly St. John

Great, but it aint cheap!

G B

Super friendly customer service, and the team in the nutrition section is incredible with their knowledge and willingness to do research with you on specific questions if they don't have the answers. I asked a few questions about how they source supplements after having a bad reaction to supplements I purchased on Amazon, and was told all the qualifications that go into purchasing for the store. I haven't had any issues with the supplements from the store and the team has even helped me understand some new ways to deal with different health issues - amazing. The grocery and home goods have a lot of fantastic artisan or small brand products you don't see in the bigger grocery stores. I've learned a lot just by shopping here. I'm so glad I don't have to research every brand and label when I come here because someone else has done it for me. (Thank you!)

W T

Not sure if its different as it has changed very much since i first shopped here 25 years ago. Groceries in Nelson pretty much consistent in town.

L T

Huge variety of items. Very health concious! Excellent vegetables and good cheese selection.

Jennifer Burton

Good place to go for unique items, especially skin care. It is pricey so you have to budget or you will end up spending hundreds......

Bram Whillock

Best grocery store ever. Fairly pricey but so worth it.

Travis Yost

Can't get any better than this

matt B

Good selection of organic stuff!

Mabel McCormick

Calm atmosphere, pleasant shopping experience

Nikki Luxton

Little bit of everything here!

Don Watson

Cool store. Wish the cafe was open

Saad Zwayne

It's very cozy place,I like it.

Rebecca Corona

Very good prices and great natural food section with abundant bulk foods

Vanassa Daranikone

Didn't have a lot of produce I was looking for, for example cilantro.

Ross MacIntyre

great service

Erin Gibbs

It is a lovely store, well stocked with items for all kinds of eaters. Prices can be exorbitant comparatively, so I will continue to buy my basics at other grocery stores like Safeway.

Yael Finer

Love it

Joe LeBlanc

Great selection of all %100 organic. Prices are a bit high. Use price fixing so you can no longer buy in bulk directly from the farmers that supply the co-op.

Dal Cloud

Pretty good breakfast/salad/hot/cold self-serve bar with a cafe and seating area. Suggestion board. Focus on community.

Shelley Nicholls

Amazing store

Dicky Niessen

Awesome place for lunch. Amazing food

Dr. David P Alfaro

Awesome place!

Shivi Kumar

Very expensive and nice store for people who are into organic food.It smells weird though when you enter the store

Allison Urbshas

Friendly and well stocked

Stephen Hunter

Just too expensive, even with membership. Odd layout makes it hard to find what you want. Not many checkouts.

Tom Marshall

Great staff and really nice products. It is expensive but the quality is good.

Stella Zeabin

Excellent service, good restaurant and good price on most products

Sarah Thurston

Love this place. Such a great selection and prices are very good for the quality and lovely take away food and cafe. The staff are always helpful and friendly!!

L

Wonderful selection of local sourced and organic food. Great healthy choices at the deli. Great selection from the many fabulous bakeries in the surrounding area. Nice staff. Best produce ever. They support local growers and community groups. Wonderful place to spend your food dollars.

Lynn Bouchard

Friendly staff

Jung Kim

Nice store for Organic and local produce. Prices are too high!

Natasha McAvoy

The best produce in town

BEV DALTON

To expensive. But have stuff other grocery stores do not.

Tammy Drudge

So many great healthy options here. I could get lost in this store. I don’t have a membership but I will be back for one soon!!

Brett Davis

Very clean and has a great selection of food! Staff were all very friendly during my visit.

Karen Hunter

Love my co-ops

Soleil Babcock

Good organic produce, support of local vendors, hella cheese department and awesome place to stop for lunch. Highly reccommend ❤

Michelle Klassen

Too expensive.

Peter Bowhey

I like the selection here, it is a really nice store and there are items you can find here that you have a hard time finding other places. That being said THE PRICES ARE INSANELY HIGH!!! A lot of the products can be found elsewhere for half the price.

Stephanie Huff

Awesome store! Lots of great natural food items, great deli snacks and dinners available. Unfortunately their seating area is currently closed due to Covid. If you are visiting from out of town you can apply for a "visitors pass" to receive their shopping discounts without signing up.

Tali Munro

Meh!!

Stephanie Hurst

Good selection

Jordain Brulotte

Upscale grocery store with lots of organic and local choices. We like stopping here in nelson to try the local cheeses, snacks and whatever else we need for our beach trips.

T D

Nice but super expensive

d wallace

Excellent hot buffet

Jay Cornell

Beautiful store with great variety and polite staff

Mike Hood

Great products and great service

Zak Stevens

Great selection of natural products.

Jimmy Jackman

Well stocked and staffed friendly.

K S

Good produce/products, way overpriced!

G P

Wow expensive

Marie-Claude Bouchard

Lovely place, almost everything organic, friendly and helpful staff

Cody Horne

Always helpful friendly staff

Eleanor Schmutz

LOVE this place, easy to move around, fabulous selections, helpful staff, quality and quantity can't get much better than that ????

John Macdonald

This is a real high end store with top quality merchandise. The staff is all really friendly and super friendly. The selection is impressive and prices are reasonable for the quality.

Tish King-Craig

Good selection of local food

Jacqueline Bigras

Love!!!!

Dave

Great selection, amazing deli/lunch bar. The place to get groceries in Nelson and area.

david buller

Very good food at good prices.

Troy Pennock

Good selection of produce. A bit pricey for packaged groceries.

Vicki Daniels

Travelling through and stopped to pick up something for lunch. Opted for the buffet. 2 takeout lunches cost $42.02!!! We expected under $20. The food was lukewarm and definitely not tasty. Would not recommend.

Delrae Fawcett

Great new location

Luke Schleppe

The food

Lynn shortt

So much goodness to take home.

Kent Wood

Kootenay can to Sat.

Oxana P

Haven't checked their regular grocery section but the prepared food section was great. If we had this store in my town I would never make lunches again. Very interesting combinations of ingredients in salads. Hot buffet was very fresh and smelled delicious. Even got some ideas for salads and dip recipies from their packaging to make at home. If you are travelling and looking for a quick and healthy lunch look no further.

olivier lacroix

Nice place

Erin Colby

Lots of interesting items and good variety, a bit pricey though

Ash G

Really good vegetarian chow mein in the deli.

Chris Leeson

Good food, premium prices

Grant Bracken

It's improving and getting better all the time! $50 permanent membership card!

Jason Morrow

Expensive but great place to shop!

Clifford French

Lots of good stuff. Mostly expensive.

Catherine Chambers

Excellent selection. Tourists welcome, inquire about visitor's pass

Victoria Youmans

Amazing onestop shop for all your health food/ products needs service excellent as well

Dervila Adams

A little expensive but great local and organic veggies.Thanks.

Neil Smith

Great atmosphere and choice of products

Cate S

Best lattes ever! Great service here.

Ali'i S

Amazing customer service!

Deborah Finley

Amazing variety of products!

Phillip Rivas

Excellent customer service and variety of foods

Will Slater

Good quality

sera lean

Omg co-op. You stepped your game up! Tis a dangerous place. Well done

ryan c

Selection and sales. Bit pricey and unexciting

Azob Chajin

I like that they're open every day until the same time. That is very useful.

Bruce Miller

Brilliant

BLAINE MICHALSKY

Great products but such an expensive monopoly. Would be great if some competition would set up shop downtown.

Charles LE ROUX

(Translated) Lots of great choices but high prices for non-members. (Original) Beaucoup de choix intéressants mais prix élevés pour les non membres.

Troy Archibald

Beautiful store, friendly staff,well stocked shelves! My wife and I had the burrito bowls mine was chicken mole and she had the tofu. Excellent food for the $$$, too bad we didn’t live here we would do our shopping @Kootney Coop!

Dale Ganske

Wish Sylvan Lake had a co-op grocery store like this

Nick K

Amazing place and definitely worth visiting. The bison sandwich is amazing and has a great price.

Susan H

Great selection of fresh, organic, and fresh made!

Chad Sommerfeld

Fairly decent prices this is where I shop in Castlegar

Aysia Lowell-Guy

local, wherever possible, and ethical produce and products

Ric Virch

Always fresh produce, great staff and check out their smoked goodies, amazing!

Lana Price-Lyons

Love this store, large selection of natural foods and products, friendly staff

Megan Hackett

I really like the friendly staff, the interesting selection and the quality. The only downside is just the layout...really no logical flow to it. I get a little turned around..

Todd Mansfield

Expensive but it is organic stuff.

J Fieldler

Love the new store

Danika Snook

Vegan tempeh breakfast sandwhich was so good! They are really good about giving discounts to out-of-towners. I highly recommend this store!

Michael Kiefer

Great store and tons of healthy options. All the in-store made food is high quality and labeled with the ingredients. Very similar to Whole Foods Market. This format is the future of grocery shopping.

Fritz Cat

(Translated) A pure health food store with a large selection of products (Original) Ein reiner Bioladen mit grosser Auswahl an Produkten

D.G PN

Meh

Anwyn Trousil

Came in close to close with a Brie cheese that was expired. Customer service team was wonderful and replaced the product with a more expensive product for the trouble. You don’t often see service like that anymore!

wilsonamyc

Pretty good selection. A little pricey and hard to find things. Difficult parking lot.

Jonathan Hackett

Incredible produce, kombucha on tap and lots of great deals. The team behind the butcher's counter is also on top of their game, creating great sausages and doing whole animal butchery!

Catherine Fisher

Values-based, good employer, cares about environmental issues.

Krysta Rizzotti

Great variety, high quality, very helpful and friendly staff. Only negative feedback I have is how unnecessarily overpriced they are with many of their products.

Crystal Johanson

Great place in down town Nelson to pick up fee groceries, or get a quick bite to eat. My spouse loves their selection of natural toothpastes and deodorants. Don't forget to check out their cheese section: they have some "mini" pre-wrapped cheese pieces if you want to buy a small amount to try at home.

Brent Forder

It's pretty much like a Superstore for groceries and household basics, but with a focus on local/regional products. I really enjoyed my first visit. If I lived in Nelson, I would definitely become a member. Every town should have something like this!

Uta Altvater

(Translated) Pigs expensive, or we were ripped off (Original) Schweine teuer, oder wir wurden abgezockt

Cedar Trees

This "local co-op" is actually RUN BY AMERICANS". All the way from management to the board. Less then 5% of staff is local. Sadly the Kootenay Co-op's "local" image is now only for profit & marketing.

Erik Kerslake

If you've got cash to burn this is the place to go. Food to go and bakery rocks, other then that, not much selection unless your into the overpriced, nouveau foody fads. Ethnic food section sucks, herb section sucks, definitely not whole foods. Most stuff you can pick up at the other grocery places for 30 percent cheaper, and it all comes out of the same food chain.

Daniel H

Great products!

Sojourn Anisesoleil

Great

John Cleaver

Excellent food bar 2.99 a 100 grams for everything excellent variety. 98% of fresh market fruit and veggies are organic

Asha DeLisle

Don't always love the prices, but love everything else about this place.

Marvin Choma

Fantastic and eclectic selection.

Julie Bond

Fabulous healthy food and sundries.

John Bowden

Fantastic grocery store with healthy, local and flavourful food. Wonderful, positive staff, incredible selection of fresh and chosen items. Great cafe and food station too. Nelson is lucky to have this gem.

Tracy McGuinness

Very extensive healthy options

Danny Perello

Quite overpriced but good selection.

Rob Siebert

Nice store. Has all u need. We always make a stop to pick up stuff.

Leslie Sharp

Beautiful new store but prices really appear to have gone up to pay for it.

Shanon Howe

Over priced

Nathan Johnson

Expensive but very nice store

Alicia Patton

I love how they have a saled buffet

Lisa T

Clean, friendly staff. Prices standard for a healthy grocery store

Raja Thalluri

You can get pretty much everything but a bit expensive than other grocery stores in the city.

Russell Algar

Good meat

Bobby Pruitt

Better prices than Ferraro Foods, and just as good of a selection, if not better since they had more organic, and specialty diet foods. Their general selection was top notch too.

Stephanie Lauze Levesque

Awesome store. Great staff

Tee Dee

One day I hope to be rich enough to shop here..

N B.

Good selection of organic produce and packaged goods. Prices here make Whole Foods Market seem like a bargain, but it’s the only organic game in town...for now.

Will L

This place is great. Staying in Nelson for a few days and have been there four times. Great local and artisanal food with friendly staff. I wish it was my local grocer.

Gerry Peters

This may be the finest grocery store I have ever been in. Wonderful high quality selection. Many unique products and supplies. A huge in-house salad bar. Bakery, sandwiches, sauces etc. Even a nice area to sit and enjoy a snack.

Tony Yeow

I miss the buffet and the sandwich take out. Otherwise it's a well stocked store.

Ryan Chamberlain

Great produce and exotic meats! Super friendly staff.

Bobby Jackson

I shop at the Co-op somewhat regularly, and almost every time I'm there, there's music blasting out of the produce department. Today it was audible throughout almost the whole store. I do like the store, but I'm tired of the loud bass all the time. It's very unprofessional.

RhiGin

We got smoked meat for our wedding here and it was delicious. They had it vacuum sealed for us a few days before, on the day of we slowly reheated the brisket, which we served with ay jus and the pulled pork with bbq sauce. Both were great and they got the stamp of approval from my aunt who used to own a bbq restaurant.

Ty

This is a great business model for a grocery store. Tons of great products, more than or comparable to Whole Foods yet retains a local, home grown feel that WF chains do not have. Great staff and an awesome vibe.

Chris Goggins

This is grocery store heaven for those that can afford it. The cafeteria is excellent as well.

Danny Owsnett

The best grocery store in Nelson bar none.

Hazel Forrester

Wonderful range of products/produce with a great cafe as well.

Nate Harris

Wish i could afford it

Alex Joseph

Lots of variety of you can afford it

cmccaughna

New building, nice selection or organic and health foods with a nice cafe. On the pricey side.