Northern Light
Superstar
So Saturday August 21st.
(or possibly the Friday, depending on whether anyone is changing the signage on weekends! )
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So Saturday August 21st.
(or possibly the Friday, depending on whether anyone is changing the signage on weekends! )
Rufus8
Active Member
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee so excited! Of course it will not compare to heading down Cherry Street and getting some cheap Chinese food for dinner but it is nice they are trying to maintain a place downtown, or rather that Loblaws is permitting them to be downtown.
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Northern Light
Superstar
The new 'unpacked' area of the Big Carrot is open.
The Big Carrot introduces “Unpacked”
Grocer serves eco-conscious consumers with new waste-free zone
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bedoozled
New Member
Anyone know the square footage of the new T&T space (compared to the previous one)? I'm curious what their offerings will be compared to the Cherry location...
Northern Light
Superstar
The new store is 27,000ft2. The old Cherry St. Store was 40,000ft2
CharmAlarm
Active Member
Sobeys at Dupont and Shaw supposedly closing October 7, according to one of the cashiers. Farm Boy at Litho, a block east, looks far from ready though.
Rufus8
Active Member
The other thing is the staff. Cherry St had the most wonderful staff, they were all so nice and enthusiastic.
Northern Light
Superstar
T&T (downtown) is open as of this Friday at 9am.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
It's still pretty large as an urban store - especially as an ethnic supermarket.
AoD
Northern Light
Superstar
I didn't suggest otherwise, merely answered a question.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I know, I am just thinking it is a lot larger than I thought they would have been able to manage at an urban site.
AoD
Northern Light
Superstar
I haven't seen the layout; but my off-hand assumption is that the cuts will come in seating, hot-food, and general merchandise, along with a slightly tighter layout.
I'm fairly sure there won't actually be fewer skus in the grocery section. (though maybe fewer facings)
I imagine they'll try to keep most of the hot food section; I wonder, assuming they do, whether they move to commissary some of it.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I can't imagine they'd cut hot food - given the location (near U of T); in fact I can see them cutting meats/seafood and even produce space to keep space for prepared foods.
AoD
Northern Light
Superstar
I'm not thinking cutting the offering; but the seating space, and some of the kitchen spaces, that accounted for a lot of the area at Cherry St.
That's why I mentioned commissary for some of the of the food.
Its a good way to save space.
I do expect they'll cut down on ft2 square in those other areas.
But the challenge is, you don't want to cut 'essentials' or what your store is known for' in any great amount.
At any rate, we'll see what they did soon enough!
AlbertC
Superstar
Huge lineups for the new downtown T&T on opening day. Someone in the area told me that the line now stretches east along College Street, and wraps downwards on Spadina towards Nassau Street.