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| - If this location weren't so conveniently located for us, we would probably never shop here. As others have noted, it's an especially frill-free No Frills.
Some of the more interesting things about this location:
- for some months, they had a notice taped at their entrance doors pre-apologizing for the quality of their produce due to supplier problems (strangely, I never actually noticed much of a quality difference, but maybe that's because I didn't buy whatever produce they were talking about - the notice was not specific, and I didn't care enough to ask)
- they've recently started selling styrofoam trays of meat that are a "pork and beef blend" - I've seen this at other No Frills and other discount chains, and am not a fan - there are obviously no guarantees yet about what percentage of the tray is pork over beef, so watch for this, (out of curiousity, bought one, and as suspected, it tasted extremely porky) they still sell beef only and pork only trays - stick with these and help nip this practice in the bud
- there are occasionally "sketchy" people in the store, but considering the demographics of the area, this shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, everyone needs to eat. I have never seen any egregious events or confrontations at this store, either between the customers and other customers or the staff
- they have a yellow cart way at the back southeast corner loaded with their discounted items. It's always been a bit of a mystery to us how some of the items that appear there are selected (some are obviously near their expiry dates, or are products that are being phased out, but a good proportion of others don't fall into either of those categories)
Given the fact that they have a smaller square footage than other No Frills locations, they actually have a decent selection. Being smaller, popular sale items sell out very quickly, but if you're desperate there's always the much larger location up by Lansdowne and Dundas (within 15-20 min walking distance, depending how fast a walker you are).
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