Posts Tagged ‘Nofrills’
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
The randomness of life has once again asserted itself in Agincourt Mall, in front of NoFrills, Kennedy/Sheppard at 09:15 June 03 2011, an older Italian lady fell, cut her finger and could not get up. Her elderly husband could not help her and he was very distraught. A crowd gathered and we assessed her condition, which seemed not life threatening. Eventually an ambulance came and took her away. What was surprising to me was my reaction: Because she fell down in the middle of the road in front of our busy NoFrills, on the grounds of Agincourt Mall, that we were in danger of getting run down by dangerous and inattentive Scarborough drivers.
Tags: Agincourt, Agincourt Mall, ambulance, cut on finger, elderly, fall, Italian, lady, No Frills, Nofrills, speed bump
Posted in Learn, Nonsense, Retail | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Crest toothpaste. From $2.37CAD at Walmart down to $0.75CAD, saving 68.35% off retail
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Extreme Couponing is a TV series on Discovery Channel that follows the trips of people who can buy $1,000 of products but reduce their total cost to $50 through the use of manufacturer coupons. Extreme they are, organized as well as driven by a personal urge to save. Many came from experiences where they had nothing or were about to file for bankruptcy. Here in Canada their tactics do not work the same, so I set out to find the best strategy for couponing in Toronto, Canada. My example is the purchase of Crest toothpaste, 130mg, discounted 68.35%. I cannot come close to the 95% discount of the Americans, but will keep trying.
Tags: Canada, coupon, Crest, Discovery Channel, Extreme Couponing, Nofrills, Price Chopper, price matching, toothpaste, Walmart
Posted in food, Learn, Retail | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
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Sometimes our Canadian multiculturalism goes a little too far, even for a Chinese Canadian like myself. Here in Toronto, Canada and especially in Scarborough, my area of the world is biased towards Chinese, especially from the Mainland. Nofrills, a local big box grocer, decides to put Billy Bee Honey, 1 litre bottle on sale for $6.88CAD. This is high quality Canadian honey, which I have used for many years without issue. At the store I pick up four bottles and head to the cash, only to find that those I picked up are not the ones advertised on sale. The difference between the two: the advertised honey has an English-Chinese label and the one I picked up has an English only label. It was annoying to have to drop my bottles of honey at the cash, reenter the store and purchase what Nofrills calls “ethnic” Billy Bee honey. I am all for ethnic but please do not discriminate against English only labels and products. Nofrills, intended or not, you need a smack upside the head.
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 Billy Bee Honey: Bottle on the right called ethnic is on sale, the one on the left is not |
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Tags: Billy Bee Honey, Canada, China, chinese, discrimination, Honey, labels, Mandarin, multiculturalism, Nicks, Nofrills, Scarborough, Toronto
Posted in China, food, Nonsense, Retail | No Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
This mystery shopping test was done on Friday April 3, 2009, accompanied by my son. It was raining heavily and mad dashes from the car to the store entrance made us soaked. Still, it was +10C, and is expected for spring. Trip review: Price Chopper A, Nofrlls C.
General Notes
Toronto has a varying climate with 4 distinct seasons and significant precipitation. In the winter we can get a snowfall of 20cm in one day. Copious amounts of rain can fall, as is the case today. It has been raining hard today. Toronto is expecting 10-20mm of rain, so much so that you still get very wet running from the car to the store.
Tags: Canada, mystery, No Frills, Nofrills, Price Chopper, review, shop, Toronto
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
This mystery shopping test was done on Friday March 13, 2009, accompanied by my daughter. She rarely goes with me because she believes, and rightly so, that grocery shopping is boring. I try to impress upon her that without someone doing the shopping we would run out of food and therefore starve because we have no direct conduit to a grocery store built into our house. Trip review: Nofrlls B+, Walmart B
___Nofrills, Kennedy/Finch, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Objective: Sale priced tetrapack apple juice and general weekly shopping.
Tags: battery, cashier, mystery, No Frills, Nofrills, Ontario, review, scanner, shop, shopping, Toronto, Walmart
Posted in Retail | 2 Comments »
