Why Loblaws is losing money
“Nope.” – The acting store manager in the Loblaws at Broadview and Danforth on Sunday, when I asked if he could do anything about the lineup that snaked from the one open non-express checkout all the...
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Supermarket Finds: Code 4651
While I recognize that memorizing all of those codes can be difficult for cashiers and it can’t be easy telling whether that bag of apples has a dozen galas or fujis, I think that painstakingly...
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Who's minnding the store?
The problem with hand-written signs is that there’s no spell-check to fall back on. This sign in a local Loblaws, which combined two errors in one word, was the very first thing customers would see...
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More fake milk and bad customer service
Just before Christmas and not even a week after writing about fake milk products, I bought a tub of my regular yogourt, President’s Choice Organic strawberry fruit-bottom yogourt, to be met with a...
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Shortly after posting Tuesday’s mini-rant about Loblaws PC Organics yogourt, I received a second reply from Loblaws customer service: Dear Mr. Dodge, Thank you for taking the time to pass on your...
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Supermarket Finds: Individually wrapped mandarins
So the East Dodgeville Loblaws is now carrying individually wrapped mandarins. I’m not sure why these little oranges need to be wrapped in plastic when all of the other ones seem to survive just fine...
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Supermarket Finds: Individually wrapped cantaloupes
When nature’s wrapping just isn’t enough. No longer content with wrapping each little mandarin in its own plastic packaging, the East Dodgeville Loblaws had a rack of individually wrapped cantaloupes...
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Supermarket Finds: Chocolate Soda
I saw a row of President’s Choice Decadent Chocolate Flavoured Soda bottles on a shelf at Loblaws around Christmas and had to pick one up to Risa’s vocal disapproval. It’s for science, I told her....
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Supermarket finds: White condiment
What on earth are they putting into this stuff that they can’t even call it vinegar? I thought this was a one-off thing, but they have a whole line up of condiment: If I’d had to guess, I would have...
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Supermarket finds: Fromidable!
“Cheese-tastic” is a passable name for this Cheez Whiz knockoff at Loblaws, but the French version is amazing. “Fromidable!” indeed.
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