Yoke's Fresh Market is an employee-owned Spokane, Washington

Spokane, Washington

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-based chain of grocery store

Grocery store

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s founded in 1946 by Marshall and Harriet Yoke. The chain was established by their son Chuck in the 1960's and now encompasses 13 stores in Washington and Idaho

Idaho

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, primarily in the Spokane area. In 1990, Chuck sold the chain to the employees. John Bole currently directs company operations.

Recently, the chain had begun expanding towards the southeastern portion of Washington, with three stores in Pasco

Pasco, Washington

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, Kennewick, and West Richland

West Richland, Washington

West Richland is a city in Benton County, Washington, United States, served by three elementary schools and a middle school , with an annual budget of about 30 million dollars. The population was 11,811 at the 2010 census...

.

The chain specializes in fresh local produce (and of recently, had a bi-weekly promotion called "Fresh Friday", (which has specials on fresh produce, as well as seafood or fresh meat), and a once-a-month breakfast cereal

Breakfast cereal

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 sale on Fridays. However, starting on May 1 of 2009, a new promotion came into existence, known as 'The Fresh Board'. Weekly, promotions of groceries are posted outside the doors of the Yokes' markets, as well as the insides of the stores.

Yoke's also has a store-owned cattle company featuring 100% Hereford

Hereford

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 beef, as well as an in-store gourmet cheese shop featuring cheeses from all over the world. Also near the cheese shop are olive

Olive

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 bars with a variety of brine-cured and oil-cured olives, as well as other relishes.

Many of the stores also have branches of Global Credit Union, some featuring drive-in banking.

Spokane, Washington locations

• Airway Heights - 12824 W. 14th.
• Argonne - 9329 E. Montgomery
• Deer Park
  Deer Park, Washington
  Deer Park is a city in Spokane County, Washington, in the United States. The population was 3,652 at the 2010 census.-History:Deer Park was officially incorporated on June 24, 1908. Deer Park got its name when railroad surveyors saw deer grazing in the area. Deer Park was settled in 1889 when a...
  
   - 810 S. Main St.
• Indian Trail - 3321 W. Indian Trail Rd.
• Market - 14202 N. Market
• North Foothills - 210 N. Foothills Dr.
• Sprague store was closed in late 2010.

Washington: other locations

• Kennewick, Washington
  Kennewick, Washington
  Kennewick is a city in Benton County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Washington, near the Hanford nuclear site. It is the most populous of the three cities collectively referred to as the Tri-Cities...
  
   - 1410 W. 27th Ave.
• Pasco, Washington
  Pasco, Washington
  Pasco is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Washington, United States.Pasco is one of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington...
  
   - 4905 Road 68
• West Richland, Washington
  West Richland, Washington
  West Richland is a city in Benton County, Washington, United States, served by three elementary schools and a middle school , with an annual budget of about 30 million dollars. The population was 11,811 at the 2010 census...
  
   - 1401 Bombing Range Rd.

Idaho locations

• Kellogg, Idaho
  Kellogg, Idaho
  Kellogg is a city in the Silver Valley of Shoshone County, Idaho, United States, in the Idaho Panhandle region. The city lies near the Coeur d'Alene National Forest and about east-southeast of Coeur d'Alene along Interstate 90...
  
   - 137 N. Hill St.
• Sandpoint, Idaho
  Sandpoint, Idaho
  Sandpoint is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Bonner County, Idaho, United States. Its population was 7,365 at the 2010 census.Sandpoint's major economic contributors include forest products and light manufacturing, tourism and recreation and government services...
  
  - 4500 N. Highway 95