New Seasons Market (Seven Corners)
This Portland grocer buys from Oregon farms and gives away a tenth of its after-tax profit. This is the Seven Corners store on SE Division. The chain announced its sale to Emart's US arm in December 2019.
Why go
New Seasons opened in 2000 and grew to eighteen Portland stores.1 It and its California sister New Leaf were the world's first grocers to earn B Corp certifications,
and both give 10 percent of after-tax profits to local charities.1 This is the shop for a rental kitchen and a Willamette Valley cheese.
Order this / avoid
- Order: Oregon produce and the local makers on the shelves, which is what the chain is built to carry.1
Good to know
- Ownership: the chain announced its sale to Good Food Holdings, a US subsidiary of the South Korean company Emart, in December 2019. Management stayed.1
Verdict
listed — A neighborhood supermarket, and the reason it is in a food database at all is the sourcing model: Oregon growers and local makers, and a B Corp that hands 10 percent of after-tax profits to local charities. It is the shop you use when you are cooking in Portland rather than eating out. Nothing found in this pass says a word about this particular store, so it sits on the bottom rung and stays there until somebody writes about the counter rather than the company.