Operates on a daily basis, the shoppers drug mart is another grocery store I often frequent. As I mentioned in my Walmart review, certain items appeared cheaper in price and hence u need to do a quick scan through the pile of weekly flyers/coupons delivered to your doorstep every Thursday.
Accordingly, the dairy product are often priced lower than anywhere else. We realized the yogurt especially Danone's are cheaper than most grocery stores. For a pack of 8mini, it goes for $4.99 but other groceries can sell them for more than $5. Get your Neilson fresh milk at Shoppers, u could saved quite a bit here. It came in packs of 3s, totaling 4L each stored separately in a plastic bag, bundled up and selling at $3.97 for skimmed milk at 1%. No coupons required for the deal. There are plastic jars available in the store to bring home to store their milk. Generally, people buy the milk in bags and make a tiny opening at the tip to serve while holding each pack in the plastic jar. That's what people do here. I find it very interesting when C told me. We never did that at home, in fact, none of our pasteurized milk is packed this manner, all in elongated milk carton.
The milk at 1% tasted quite good, not too diluted even though it has been labeled as skimmed. There are 2% and chocolate flavored ones. The store also carry a small range of staples like commercial wheat loaf, English muffins, bagels of different flavours, sugars, coffee/tea sachets, cereals, muesli, candies and chocolates, pops, butter, household necessities. They even sell greeting cards and cosmetics. The pharmacist is stationed at the medical section round the clock from the time the store opens till it closes at 12midnight. That's the requirement for shoppers to remain operational each day, the pharmacist need to be present in the drug mart without fail.
The staff at the cashier are very friendly and help you with your queries at all times. They took time to attend to u, asking if u need help but instead of tailing u, they let u have your personal shopping space to shop freely. I always enjoyed the retail service in Canada, so far shoppers drug mart in Ottawa has been very exceeding. A few outlets I have been to are Rideau Center, St Laurent Center & this one at Alta Vista. read more