Awards and Recognition

2022 Natural and organic brokerage, Yin Yang Naturals features Marlene's Market & Deli for Independent Retailer Month. Read here!


2021 Whole Foods Magazine names Marlene's Market & Deli Retailer of the Year! Read the whole story here.

2019 Marlene and her stores have long been proud members of the Provender Alliance. The Provender Alliance is a pacific Northwest-based, non-profit trade association of natural products companies and associates, with membership from all over the United States and British Columbia. 


At the Provender Alliance 2019 Annual Members Conference, Marlene was awarded The Pioneering Woman Award for having the courage and foresight to grow the Natural Food Movement one small, exceptional step at a time.


Marlene was honored for her lifetime of achievement as a leader and entrepreneur in natural foods and healthy living. She was praised for her unparalleled commitment to education and customer service – which remains in effect today. Nothing too small, nothing too detailed was beyond her notice. From the many employees who will tell you that she personally showed them how to wring out a rag, to teaching her staff and customers what it means to eat healthy – Marlene will always be remembered as a friend of the Provender Alliance.

2008 Natural Products Association names Marlene Beadle as one of three recipients of the Socially Responsible Retailer Award. The award is granted to member companies that excel in integrating social responsibility in multiple aspects of their businesses including volunteerism, education, employee empowerment, environment and health. Marlene receives her award at the 2008 NPA Convention in Las Vegas in July of 2008.


This year (2008) I nominated Marlene Beadle of Marlene’s Market and Deli for the Natural Products Association (NPA) Socially Responsible Retailer Award, and to my great delight (but not surprise), she won! As a long time customer and business associate of the stores, I believe that Marlene’s not only embodies, but exceeds all of the requirements listed for the recipient of the award: community involvement, education of employees and the community at large, living wages and benefits, donation of goods and services, and involvement and support of the natural foods industry. Not only that, Marlene’s offers so very much more!


When I moved here several years ago, the first thing I looked for was the local natural foods store. I knew that was where the center of my community would be, and Marlene’s did not disappoint! For years, Marlene’s has been my local natural foods store, and I am so grateful for all the services they offer. At Marlene’s I’ve attended and given lectures, learned cooking and healthy eating and living tips, tried yummy new foods and products at demos, indulged in foot reflexology and massage, shared meals and tea, had business and personal meetings, gotten involved in political action, benefited from education and personal enrichment, sent my friends there to shop and participate, and have even received donation items for various non-profit organizations. Last, and most importantly, I even met my very favorite Reiki and spirituality teacher at Marlene’s!


Marlene’s has provided all these benefits to me – just by buying my family’s food there on a regular basis. I had the pleasure of sitting with Marlene one night at a conference, and overheard her tell a beginning health food owner from a small store in Oregon, “We have to do what the big stores do, only we have to do it BETTER!” From my personal point of view, Marlene and her staff achieve this daily. I’m so pleased to see them get the recognition they deserve for running a local and community supportive business! Thanks to all of you and congratulations on winning the NPA’s Socially Responsible Retailer Award Marlene’s Market and Deli!


Laurie Bock

Owner, Transformations


2005 NNFA-Northwest names Marlene Beadle the Pioneer Award recipient. The Pioneer Award is given each year at the Northwest Region’s annual trade show. The Region’s definition of “pioneer” is someone who leads the way and sets a good example for others in the industry.


2004 National Nutritional Foods Association grants the NNFA Crusader Award to Marlene Beadle. This award recognizes individuals who have made notable contributions to the natural products industry above and beyond commercial success. In a press release announcing the award, NNFA writes:


“As the owner of Marlene’s Market & Deli and as an industry member for 27 years, Marlene Beadle has done much to further the education and well-being of her customers. Her commitment to the industry includes serving a number of terms on the NNFA Northwest Board of Directors, as secretary/treasurer and as a state representative”.


1999 | Marlene Beadle co-founds The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods with Craig Winters and Alex Schauss, Ph. D.


1998 | Health Food Business magazine names Marlene’s Market & Deli “one of the top 10 health food stores in the country”.


1993 Marlene’s is named “Top Mid-Sized Health Food Store” by Health Food Business magazine.


1991 Marlene Beadle co-founds Citizens for Health with Craig Winters and Alex Schauss, Ph.D.


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