This monster of a store is visible from the 401, and if you live anywhere in the area, you've been watching its construction for years. Once in a big pile of nothing, all of a sudden the "Village" at Scarborough Town Centre has sprung up into a suburban outdoor mall, albeit across the street and annoying to get to without a car.
The biggest part of the Village is this Superstore, which is ENORMOUS. So big that I don't want to fluff up the review, so I'll get down to the basics.
GOOD:
- Joe Fresh Style! Great clothes, cheap prices. This location puts a LOT of stuff on sale as well, I've snatched up a couple tank tops for $2.98 and dresses and shoes for $9.99. Absolutely love it.
- Good Life location upstairs! Only good if you're a woman though, sorry guys.
- Decent sales on groceries. Cheap fruit and veg sometimes, decent selection of PC products and efficient deli counter.
- Lots of takeaway food. If you're too lazy to cook, they have a ton of pre-made stuff to bring home. Would be even better if this was close to where I work...
- Big Housewares section, big drugstore, big magazine rack, everything is big, big, big. TONS of staff to accommodate the huge store.
- They charge for bags so everyone has to use reusable ones! Yay! Expect to hear lots of grumbling from the elderly about this. Also they have a decent organic/health food section but some of their stuff is crazy expensive.
BAD:
- Everything is TOO big. It takes two hours to go through the entire store, and even I, a lover of grocery shopping, do not want to be in here for two hours. Also the store seems to be designed in the opposite way of every other grocery store -- shouldn't all the produce be on the left side instead of the right? When I shop here I end up going backwards, which is dangerous because Joe Fresh is on the left and there is the possibility I will spend all my money on clothes instead of food.
- Sometimes things are ridiculously overpriced. Generally I'd rather go to No Frills or Price Chopper to save those extra cents.
INTERESTING:
- Usually there is a lineup for the self checkout and there are 5 or 6 cashiers sitting there with nothing to do. Hilarious how everyone wants to "play" cashier but not actually be one in real life.