TossYourJacket
Senior Member
As if cheese is ever not delicious.
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News on retail chains (was: New Mall Retail)
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Towered
Superstar
I despise cheese.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Fine, more for the rest of us.
I don't know, I wouldn't want to try Casu martzu for one.
AoD
Northern Light
Superstar
Fine, more for the rest of us.
I don't know, I wouldn't want to try Casu martzu for one.
AoD
Well thank you for making me look that up!
Since I know a huge range of culinary offerings from around the world; and that was new to me; I am forced to make others as off-put as I; we shall all blame Alvin!
From Wikipedia:
tripwire
Active Member
Um, are you supposed to eat the larvae with the cheese then?
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
The wikipedia article described it under the consumption section. "pitter-patter" sound - bon appetit!
AoD
Rather late to this.
Dominion was on the north side, torn down before the Loblaws (which was a bigger, better, and more successful store. You'd get to the Loblaws from the mall corridors by going through the original Gourmet Fair. Before Sherway was a figure-8 shape, it was an S with the square in the middle and two short halls that led off the other points of the S. The Dominion was at the end of the northwest hall. I think it went at the time that the figure-8 completion was done.
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Northern Light
Superstar
Your youthful vibrance is deceiving........who knew you remembered these pre-historic times! LOL
I was trying to dig up pictures of the original supermarkets at Sherway; I'm usually rather good at this sorta thing........
So far I can find pictures of every inch of Sherway as it was.........except the supermarkets!
Since I found others, I'll stick just a couple here, credit embedded in the image:
Look at how different it was............not just from today.........but from everything else.............
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Towered
Superstar
Your youthful vibrance is deceiving........who knew you remembered this pre-historic times! LOL
I was trying to dig up pictures of the original supermarkets at Sherway; I'm usually rather good at this sorta thing........
So far I can find pictures of every inch of Sherway as it was.........except the supermarkets!
Since I found others, I'll stick just a couple here, credit embedded in the image:
Look at how different it was............not just from today.........but from everything else.............
Those pictures are depressing.
AlbertC
Superstar
Good Earth Coffeehouse is set to open locations at select Indigo bookstores across the country, as a replacement for some closed Starbuck spaces:
retail-insider.com
Indigo Announces Coffee Concept as Replacement Tenant for Former Starbucks Locations: Interviews
A Canadian company will replace Starbucks in about half of the Indigo Books & Music storefronts after Starbucks closed hundreds of locations during the pandemic.
retail-insider.com
Northern Light
Superstar
Good Earth Coffeehouse is set to open locations at select Indigo bookstores across the country, as a replacement for some closed Starbuck spaces:
Indigo Announces Coffee Concept as Replacement Tenant for Former Starbucks Locations: Interviews
A Canadian company will replace Starbucks in about half of the Indigo Books & Music storefronts after Starbucks closed hundreds of locations during the pandemic.
Never tried them, but I'm more than content see Starbucks go. Aside from general disdain for their product quality or lack thereof, their position inside many other chains (see Loblaws) strikes me as damaging for their brands as well. There's so much more you can accomplish either with your own brand, or working with a smaller (better) cooperative partner.
Richard White
Senior Member
I found myself going to the Starbucks in Indigo more than I go to the ones in Loblaws. For me, it is more of a natural fit in Indigo in a 1990s coffeehouse sort of way.
That being said, Starbucks is a shell of its former self. I remember when they had leather chairs, coffee tables, etc. They were an actual café.
Now they are more of a fast food chain than anything else.
AlbertC
Superstar
Nadege Patisserie are opening a new location at Bloor West & Albany in the Annex area, at the former Starbucks:
afransen
Senior Member
They indeed serve pretty distinct segments--which is very obvious if you shop both. I don't know how much Costco's new business-oriented stores (kind of acknowledging their main channel is consumer oriented) are targeting the same food service clientele Wholesale Club serves. They converted their St Catharines store. I haven't been there to check it out yet given their even more restricted hours. My extended family that lives there was pretty miffed though as Costco flanked that store with two new builds but 15 -20 minutes away in either direction down the QEW.
afransen
Senior Member
I think plastic baskets are going to make a big comeback with the coming prohibition of single use plastics.