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Originally Posted by Loco101
The grocery stores in Timmins get the worst of the fruits and vegetables. It's really sad. We often don't even get things that are normally found in groceries stores if the suppliers or warehouses don't have enough. The warehouses in the GTA give priority to the South while we get the worst.
It's not the same in Rouyn-Noranda which is supplied from the Montreal area. They have much better and fresher stuff.
Is T-Bay similar to Timmins when it comes to the poor quality or lack of produce?
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The quality isn't too bad (I shop at Superstore, which gets supplied out of Western Canada), but sometimes we run out of a large amount of things. Not just "there's no celery right now", but like, "There's no leafy greens, no peppers, no potatoes, no onions, no celery, no bananas, no pears, no garlic, and no strawberries" kind of stuff. I send pictures like this to a friend of mine every once in a while as a joke about life up here:
Like, this isn't too unusual for Superstore. I went there a few weeks ago and one side of the produce section was just lettuce. There were no carrots or turnips or beets or celery or anything on that side, it was just hundreds of packages of lettuce.
There was actually one time a couple months ago where I went to Superstore and my list was basically milk, eggs, potatoes, carrots, peppers, onions, bread and chicken. The only thing I was able to actually buy was carrots and milk, because all the other items were completely out of stock, unless I wanted quail eggs or little thai chilis or shallots. If you're buying the stuff from the middle aisles, all the processed food and baking goods that are more shelf stable, they're more reliable on that. But anything that expires, there's certain times of the week where "the truck hasn't come yet" and they just have nothing left. I've had to go to multiple stores before to find a bag of yellow potatoes. Walmart doesn't seem to have this problem but they put all their produce individually into plastic bags and I refuse to buy it like that.
Superstore's bakery section is also really bad if you want plain white bread, but fantastic if you want rye. They've got like 80 different kinds of rye for some reason, but literally only three kinds of white bread: Wonderbread in a 2 foot long loaf, store baked bread with the thickest, hardest crust ever and giant holes throughout, and Old Mill which never grows mould or expires. It just turns grey and slowly shrinks.
The red onions they sell here, I swear to god, they drag them here from Mexico. You can barely even tell they were onions, it's insane how gross they are. People still buy them! But you have to remove like a third of it to get to anything usable! I love red onions but I never buy them because not even Safeway—which by far has the best produce here, slightly better than Metro—ever has decent ones. Maybe there's just something about red onions that makes them naturally covered in what I'm guessing are cankers? I actually found an article about bad onions in Bangladesh and I swear to god the photo of bad onions is exactly what Superstore puts on sale as "fresh produce"
https://www.thedailystar.net/news/onion-of-discord
Like, a few of those are maybe usable, but... would you?
Also Superstore's sweet potatoes are — massive, they're priced at less than a dollar a pound usually, I only buy one and it's never less than $2.
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