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| - As a child of the suburbs, this is about what I'm used to in terms of grocery store size, so it marks one of the few times I'm not disappointed in terms of selection. Having said that, the layout is bass-ackwards, and prices are about what you'd expect for Longo's.
PROs:
-Big selection
-Great prepared foods
-Large space to contain said large selection
-Nice staff
CONs:
-The layout is disjointed at best - like the Future Shop at Yonge and Dundas, this feels like they had a pre-defined shape and sort of poured the store into it. Stuff that would be near each other in other stores - spices and baking supplies, for example - are separated by several aisles. If you come in via escalator and leave the same way, there's no buggy return - walk over to the elevators, drop it off, then back to the escalator in the middle. You can get to the checkouts from both ends of the horseshoe that is this store - the express ones one way, the regular ones the other. You can't see the express ones from the regular ones. There are several freezer cases that wheelchair-bound people will never be able to access due to the giant freaking pillar right in front of them.
Stuff like that.
-Longo's prices, which seem to actually be about on par with Sobey's prices downtown. I work in Oakville though, so at lunch I get a taste of what cheap food was like out that way. Ah, memories...
I should probably come here more often, but Sobey's is literally a 30 second walk from my door, so we'll see what happens with that.
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