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Originally Posted by esquire
Ironic given that a lot of the regional malls spent most of the last 30 years getting rid of grocery store anchors.
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Ironically Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby has three anchors that sell groceries - Real Canadian Superstore, T&T Supermarket, and Walmart (just opened in 2018 in a former Target space). And there’s a Save-on-Foods across the street. That Superstore is the craziest, most packed grocery store I’ve been to in the world. I can’t even imagine the lineups right now with Coronavirus.
In London there’s still a few malls with national grocery store anchors - Metro at Cherryhill Village Mall, Food Basics at both Sherwood Forest Mall and Oxbury Mall...and I think that’s it. In Toronto there’s still at least one Loblaws in a mall - Bayview Village.
What’s the deal with Save-on-Foods anyways? The name sounds like a discount retailer, but it’s far from that - probably the most expensive of the grocery chains in BC, not unlike Metro in Ontario. (Their customer service is also among the best in the industry, IMO)