12-20-2019, 09:43 PM
(12-20-2019, 09:38 PM)MidTowner Wrote:(12-20-2019, 09:26 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Farm Boy's largest store, the new TrainYards flagship, will be 38,000 sq ft, so not huge by supermarket standards. Their newest urban format, in Rideau Centre, would be under half that size, I believe. I haven't really heard much about what their expansion plans are - there are two new stores coming in Ottawa and they were looking at opening urban formats in the GTA, but beyond that I haven't heard anything. I think they should be looking at opening a full store in Waterloo, although I don't know where I'd put it.
Certainly not huge, no. Urban Fresh locations are less than 20,000 square feet, and it looks like several of Farm Boy's latest stores are in that range, too, one as small as 12,000 square feet.
Latest press release about expansion lists seven new stores in the GTA over the next two to three years, and one in St. Catharines.
That might be the new Rideau Centre location. It is a true "urban format", heavy on the prepared foods and, from what I've seen, wildly successful.