Like giant ice cream trucks, supermarkets on wheels get ready to roll into the neighbourhood

jackrabbit000 wrote: ↑ Two of my cousins work for Sysco. Sysco@Home is not cheap. The reason why they are doing this is because their warehouses are full and there's no place to send the stuff plus like everyone else, they are hurting for business and it helps by keeping layoffs lower. Most of the places they normally deliver to are closed right now.

jackrabbit000 wrote: ↑ True enough. But you can split the case with someone else. My cousin's can get it cheaper because they work there but we usually split it 2-4 ways like a case of 56 oranges or 10 kg of chicken wings.

imoo2u wrote: ↑ For myself, it is A BIG NO for having big trucks (over 15ft long) driving around or parked in my neighbourhood.
More open to smaller size grocery trucks like those used by couriers (FedEx, UPS, Purolator) at a fixed date/time routine.

HammerRFDer wrote: ↑ I think the saddest part about the article is how farmers markets are expensive. They used to be cheap because they cut out the middleman. Then they became expensive because people started to value that and now I never go!


If you’re in Toronto, don’t worry. The city will make complicated and pointless rules to keep the idea dead.

Just like food trucks.

It’s a city priority to make sure businesses can’t get around paying high rents. What could go wrong?

bylo wrote: ↑ Like giant ice cream trucks, supermarkets on wheels get ready to roll into the neighbourhood

Soichiro wrote: ↑“Mobile is the way of the future”: A Q&A with the owner of Grocery Neighbour, the new supermarket on wheels hitting Toronto’s streets soon

You’re not going to find toilet paper or paper towels, which are big and bulky and take up too much space. Those aren’t the kind of items where you realize at 3 p.m. “Oh shoot, we’re all out.”

Blanche123 wrote: ↑ Thank you bylo. I sent an e-mail to the company asking that we be notified when/if the food trucks will be in our area of Toronto - or close by car to our area. I do not object to the Large Trucks, after all, we have garbage trucks, moving vans, construction trucks, ice cream trucks etc.

We also remember the milkman, the bread man, the vegetable man and heck, even the blocks of ice being delivered for the "refrigerator". I wish they still existed.

I think it is a great idea. The problem for us with Sysco is the amount you have to buy. There are just the 2 of us.

Thanks again. I realize that the service will not start until summer, but it is something.

Blanche123 wrote: ↑ @PointsHubby - I too would love to see bread delivery to our home or at least to our street. Back in the day, the "regular" breads and sweeter bread type options, including donuts, jelly-rolls etc. were very good, fresh, and most importantly, not "Frankenfood" as in NO Wonder Bread meant to last forever. The bread man came to my aunt's street at least once, sometimes twice a week.

I really hope Grocery Neighbour serves our neighbourhood, or at least somewhere close to us in Toronto. It sounds as if they had a lot of input - mine included!

I wish that Farm Boy had the home delivery or pick-up options that Ottawa currently offers. I told our relatives in Ottawa about it and they intend to try it out. So far Farm Boy in Toronto is not offering the service.