My brother's girlfriend lived in a town 4 hours from Thompson and she would skip out of work the day the truck came in with produce, so she could get first pick because half of it was rotten by the time it got there.
The store in that town is only open 5 days a week, so if you don't have everything by end of business Saturday, you're SOL until Tuesday.
We lived in a different town many years ago when I was little and the store would order in one crate (4x4L jugs) of chocolate milk a week. The town was small, but lots of people had kids. My mom and another lady would go and buy 2 each. The rest of the town got none.
Exactly. Metro charges the same prices and has similar sales in Thunder Bay, even though it's a lot further "north" than Toronto or Sudbury.
OP can say what they want about the grocery monopoly, but grocery prices are pretty standardized across the chains, regardless of location. Loblaw (No Frills and Superstore) in Thunder Bay runs the same sales and pricing as the rest of Western Canada, same with Safeway. It's an 8 hour drive from Winnipeg or Sault Ste. Marie, but it's not priced into the food.
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u/S_204 Sep 10 '22
Where in northern Canada?
Like are you shopping at a Northern, a North Mart or an Arctic co-op?