Giant Tiger announced that they’re expanding across Canada - this was the grocery store I’d go to when I lived downtown Winnipeg so fingers crossed they’re looking at downtown saskatoon! If anyone’s interested in sharing with any dtnyxe reps to maybe spur the conversation, might be a good time to do so as they haven’t confirmed what locations they’re looking at yet…
https://www.narcity.com/giant-tiger-...-300-locations
I don’t think we’d ever see a premium grocer in our downtown with our current demographic, so Giant Tiger is honestly probably the most perfect grocery we could see coming to downtown.
Any insights on best spot for a Giant Tiger or Freshco downtown? My fav location would of course be near the most population dense block ~25th and 5th - maybe Baydo’s retail space could handle one big grocery store?? That would be more useful than their planned coffee shop/subway/restaurant plans!
If that was the case, I’d also love to see a “climate friendly” pedestrian overpass at 25th and 5th - encouraging easier pedestrian cross-ability to our new hundreds of soon to be neighbours on the other side of 25th. This would make carrying groceries back and fourth across 25th (which has a long light) a bit easier as well in winter which is a huge limitation to a downtown pedestrian focused grocer.
Another solution would be to connect all of the underground parkades in the area and start a bit of a tunnel system - this is how my winnipeg downtown condo was set up to the underground food court downtown. Maybe in 50 yrs ha.