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Originally Posted by The Familia
Freshco sucks. They turned our neighbourhood Sobeys in Evanston into a Freshco and I hate it. Terrible bakery (there is no bakery, just pre packaged bread), no deli or fresh made things, produce is very limited and always in poor shape, and nothing is ever cheap. Never notice anything cheaper than Superstore would have. The meat department is Ok only because it’s a Westgate meats and they have some variety. Seafood is non existent. The actual layout, quality of interior design, and look of the store is as gross and cheap looking as you can imagine.
Did I miss something or is every Safeway going to be transformed? I’m sad the Whitehorn Safeway turned to a Freshco. That was was first job as a bag boy in the 90’s. I also remember shopping there when it was Food for Less….now I have to visit the nostalgic Calgary thread.
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I think I live pretty close to you.
For me the biggest problem with Fresco, is that if they are a discount store, then sell me bulk packaging where you get the unit cost really low. Instead it's all small packaging and not overly expensive for small packaging, but very expensive per unit cost compared to Walmart/superstore/Costco... I feel like I might as well get groceries at Dollarama.
Walmart and SaveOn have grabbed a big chunk of my market share directly because of the brand change Sobeys made there.