After having dinner with a friend in the West Island, he asked if I wanted to go shopping here as…read morewe were in the area.
As I wasn't under any time schedule, I mentioned that I didn't have any issues with it.
I've been to the C&T located in the Ville Saint-Laurent / Cartierville area but this is their recently new location in Pierrefonds.
This C&T location recently opened in Pierrefonds and was very large and clean. At the time that my friend and I arrived, there was plenty of available free parking close to the entrance.
The large shopping carts work with the coin deposit/release system which I'm not a fan of. I know why a lot of stores implement this (mostly grocery stores) but since I'm one of the people who despite what the weather is like, I will always return my grocery shopping cart back to the area that they are supposed to be located after I put the items into my car, I find it more of a nuisance and I often don't carry a loonie or a two-nie with me to release the shopping cart.
Luckily here, they have smaller red plastic grocery carts that you can use. These grocery carts can't leave the store so whatever you purchase in the store, you need to take them out of the cart and bring them to your car or whatever means of transportation you used to shop here.
This place is very large and very clean. As it just recently opened, hopefully it stays this clean since the C&T location in the VSL/Cartierville area isn't as clean. I believe that this place opened in June 2023 (I visited in late July 2023).
There is a minimum $10 amount if using your credit card for purchases.
The prices were typical for a larger Asian grocery store and I found the prices to be very competitive and the fresh produce prices that I looked at and was interested in were lower than some of the prices that I saw in the bigger chains (Provigo, Maxi, Metro, Super-C, IGA).
I can see myself returning here if I'm in the area. The only negative is that I need to make sure that I have my grocery bags or a loonie/two-nie in order to use the grocery cart if I'm purchasing a lot of items (and I generally don't have/keep my empty grocery bags in my car).