A couple of Mondays ago, I was driving over to Mississauga on highway 409, not too far away from my workplace. I had the day off. I noticed a text message appear on my phone.
My car takes text messages and reads them to me. This one said that all laptops worldwide were down and to not reboot them. It seemed like an ominous, suspicious scam, but maybe not. I took the next ramp off the highway, which was Islington.
I do miss this area. I used to stay at the Delta. I don't know what happened, but the hotel looks like it's permanently closed. It's such a shame, as I loved staying at this hotel.
Just north of this hotel is a plaza with a Walmart and Scotiabank. I pulled in and parked in front of this Dollarama.
The emergency broadcast text was legitimate. It was from my employer, but it never stated that detail. I looked at the incident number in the text message and I recognized it as being an internal one. I logged on to my work e-mail on my phone and it was indeed a valid issue.
Luckily, I was off from work. This broadcast text kind of ruined my not logging on to check my messages, but it would have been stressful trying to do work when you can't.
Anyway, since I was parked in front of this Dollarama, I might as well go in and check it out, right? Right!
This dollar store is decent. I saw mini Star Wars oven mitts that were cool. I didn't need any. If I did, I'd get the pair with R2-D2 and Grogu.
I'm glad that I stopped by. I got sugar-free chocolate orange mints. I tried them when I got home and they are yummy. The candy aisle is extensive.
I also needed cotton swabs. I got a package of 500. It's my first time getting them at a dollar store. I hope they are good.
The phone accessories are cool. I enjoy looking at them.
I also like the food and drinks aisle. I picked up a small bottle of Diet Pepsi. It's oddly priced at 87 cents.
This store has self-checkout kiosks. I still like interacting with a human being. I got a nice woman who helped cash me out.
She asked if I needed a bag. I didn't and saved one.
I paid with my debit card. All done! I wished this woman a nice day an left with my purchases.
There is plenty of parking in this plaza. I was here at around 10:30 am. It wasn't packed, but it did have a fair number of shoppers in the store.
I enjoyed shopping at this Dollarama. I'd return when I'm in the area again.
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