General Retail News

[tomh009]

It looks like J&P grocery is unfortunately closing. I personally only made a few attempts to shop there last year. I liked what they were trying to do, but felt it was too expensive.

It was pretty expensive, and the convenience store in outside my building was often closer and cheaper.  I did shop there from time to time though...

Rather disappointing for the community to be sure.

It's unfortunate, for sure.

But J&P never lived up to (at least our expectations): we were expecting, or hoping for, an urban-format grocery store. What J&P had was a very limited selection of relatively expensive niche items, more so than Vincenzo's. There were a limited number of shelves, and not many choices on those shelves, either. No "normal" milk and eggs, for example, and very few fruits and vegetables. We found more options at SDM, Legacy Greens and New City, so unfortunately we rarely shopped at J&P, as much as we had been waiting for their opening.

My understanding was that the business had been running on the strength of the lunchtime take-out/catering business. I wonder whether it's this business that lost a big customer, triggering the closure of the store.

Maybe our expectations were not realistic or unreasonable. But I'm still hoping for that urban-format supermarket somewhere in DTK. However, at least now we have the additional option of taking the LRT to Valu-Mart in Waterloo.