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| - This brand new No Frills, does not give you the dirty dungy yellow feel that you get from most other locations. In fact it's the complete opposite! Bright lights, high ceilings and neatly stocked merchandise makes a huge difference and goes a long way.
Yesterday I spent 1.5 hours here grocery shopping for a cottage trip. I came out with 2 carts full of stuffs, I felt like I was on Extreme Couponing but lacking the coupons.
Parking is free for 90 mins. All you do is go up to the machine,1) press the blue button 2) press the green button - no need to stick any change or card in the machine.
The produce section was well maintained, and I'm always impressed by the guys that constantly go and inspect items as they re-stock and check for moldies and remove them. They were pretty friendly about it when I passed them a moldy box of strawberries. It's not their fault, it does come like that in the batch.
Corn today was 10 for $5. Apples for 0.69/lb. Potatos $4/10lbs. Box of blueberries $3.99 (why are they always so $$). Box of strawberries $2.99. Usually the produce here is fresh. And for more pre packaged items, there are price checked weekly.
A bulk section follows, but mainly only nuts and candies.
Then the Bakery Section. Unfortunately No Frills doesn't really carry non-pre packed bread, and there were only two loaves of baked bread - and no one there to slice it. If it wasn't for this cottage trip, I would have gone elsewhere to buy. There was no Spelt bread.
The meat section lines the back wall. Chicken was all sold out at $1.30something / lb. Burger patties at 30% off was the same price as the frozen ones at the back but with less preservatives.
I also discovered that the Sausages in the meat section have all natural ingredients including a Hog Casing, than the ones in the bacon and cold cuts section.
The aisles were clearly marked, with price checks almost everywhere. Lots of things to buy, wide aisles made for easy maneuverering of all my stuff. They had a lot more selection than I would have expected for a No Frills, including lots of Gluten Free products you only see in Big Carrot or something. Even my Hemp granola bars were cheaper here by 50c than in Bulk Barn.
Classico tomato sauce was $2 on sale.
And I love seeing prices that are only 2 digits with a decimal place to the left.
Milk, and eggs are along the far East wall. And Ice Cream near the front.
There is also a pharmacy section with shampoos and bandaids and things, just like a Loblaws. I swear you'd like you were in one.
You forget you are in a No Frills and really pleased with the prices of everything. That is until you get to the cash.
Cash lady wasn't cheery at all, and kind of needed a pick me up after shopping til 9pm. We held up a bunch of people with all our stuff, but it's not my fault that they only had 3 registers and no one opening another till.
I guess no one buys this much stuff because the conveyor was small and narrow, and she didn't bat and eye or gave a crap that she squished all my chips.
You still bag everything yourself, but with this much stuff and use of lots of boxes and what not, we needed to do it ourselves.
I love shopping at No Frills because for 15 people for 3 days I spent $300. This one especially.
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