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| - I like Bestco. For me, it is a large No Frills with a Chinese specialization.
Reasonably clean and decent pricing. It's a large supermarket with good amount of selection. For the most part, their flyer specials run on for the entire (flyer period) week, as opposed to just the weekend.
I do nearly most of my grocery shopping here at Bestco (it's nearby and convenient for me). It has the Chinese greens that I like, and a decent-enough-quality of salad greens for my ("Western"/"White") salads. You can get two decent quality romaine lettuce heads for about $1.00-$1.50. I think I purchased a beautiful, large head of red-leaf lettuce (labelled as green-leaf) for around $0.70. Then, there are your regular carrots, tomatoes, celery, etc.
I only mention the lettuce because, oftentimes, the lettuce is wilted at Chinese groceries. Not to say that this place is the exception. But, it is an exception most of the time. (There have been a few instances where I have seen wilted edges on the green leaf lettuce. The romaine is generally a winner.)
Their meat counters often have specials. The only problem (aside from the language barrier for me) is that the meat specials often sell out by the time I come grocery shopping in the evening.
I like that they have a small section for discounted produce that is going bad/not-up-to-par. I see workers re-organizing and sorting the produce into containers. You can see the workers clean the meat and seafood counters at night, closer to closing. It's nice to see that there is some sort of standardization going on.
The store is still fairly new and it is still shifting around it's organization of their shelf items. I hope they fix that soon, because it's somewhat chaotic for me and it's difficult for me to find the items I want.
It has a small food court, but I have never tried their food court items. They offer baked goods, breads, cakes, stir-frys, bbq meat, sushi, and probably another array of items I missed.
Since summer is right around the corner, they are currently selling small containers of flowers and vegetables. I found kale! The only place I have seen it in Toronto so far. Small containers of four seedlings are $1.29/each. I believe they also offer Chinese vegetables as well, but I cannot read the Chinese labels.
In terms of parking, it is a breeze on weekdays. And a nightmare on weekends. All the roads leading to the entrances/exits of the Chartwell Plaza/Bestco are cracked and filled with huge potholes.
Open until 11pm everyday/7 days a week. Cash/credit/debit. Shopping carts take loonies.
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