Pacific Fresh Food Mart is at least as good as it ever was, and possibly even better. I could live…read morein this store. Let's start with the prepared foods counter, which consists of a number of warming trays for hot items, a counter with a stack of steamers for dim sums, and the typical chinese BBQ display window, with the hanging, reddish-hewed ducks and pork sides. My husband and I have found some of their take out foods to be on the bland side, but the BBQ and the bakery items are total winners. My daughter loves to get a take-out combo tray of BBQ pork (char sui) and roasted pork belly for her workday lunches. We also love to take the BBQ pork buns camping or on road trips. They make a very tasty, clean, hand-held snack. I've also tried their dim sum, and it was very good, for dim sum prepared and then held warm for a while. Their Youtiao (fried dough sticks), shao mai and har gao are always great. They've recently introduced stuffed tofu to the dim sum counter, and I will have to give that a try. The meats, from both the Halal and Non-Halal counters are excellent. The have very competitively priced meat that it always fresh. Pacific also has some great weekly specials, many from their seafood counter. Once, I bought snapper for a fraction of what it would cost in a mainstream grocery store. I've had their lobsters and crabs too: all excellent. Now, moving to the produce aisles, you will find a vast assortment of exotic fruits (what else should I call them? are Dragonfruits and Mangosteen exotic??? Or am I indulging in Orientalism). This section of the store smells beautiful, fragrant with ripe fruit. The produce aisles also boast a copious selection of Chinese greens, such as Yu Cai and Snow Pea Tips, which the regular grocery stores do not carry. Finally, the dry goods aisles offer many good deals on all sorts of things, and is a great source for all the chinese and japanese sauces that you could ever wish for. It's such a pleasure to have this wonderful supermarket so close to home!

Solid Asian grocers in a pinch if you're in the Pickering area. It's located across the mall and is…read morefairly easy to find parking. If you're looking for Chinese ingredients specifically, it's a bit limited. You'll find most of what you might be looking for, but I feel like they don't carry a lot of the popular brands that we're looking for. I think they support really a wide variety of Asian necessities, so it's more geared for variety. If I want something in particular, I pretty much never find it here, or I find a weird brand I haven't tried. It's a really clean store and well organized. Staff are super friendly. The hot food table has a few options, plus there's a sushi stand, but I think the food is just so-so. We've not quite enjoyed the quality there, but I think it's fair to say that most of these types of eateries are not the best. They make everything in a large batch, and while some flavours hint at authenticity, the quality is quite meh. Again, great place to go for your basic necessities and pricing is fair.

They got a deal going on right now for $20 bucket of wedges and wings. I have PC Express so…read moredelivery was pretty much "free". When it arrived the wedges was cold but the wings were still warm. However they forgot to give me my dipping sauce! Also I order naked wings and they gave me breaded wings! They also only gave me 29 wings when it was suppose to be 30! It wedge tasted pretty darn good as it was well seasoned. The wings were lacking a tiny bit as it wasn't crispy anymore. Even though they messed up on my order, it still tasted pretty good so I would probably order from them again especially at that price.

Since my last review of the Pickering Loblaws, they've renovated and upgraded some of their…read moredepartments. Recently, in response to economic tensions with the U.S.A., Canadian products are labelled with the maple leaf. This labelling is usually accurate, but best to check anyway. The loyalty card is one of the best out there, and every month I save a considerable amount of money. Just remember to open your app and load the offers! Starting with the prepared foods and deli counters, the chicken counter has the ubiquitous roast chicken, which every grocery store with a prepared food counter seems to stock. It's good, but I recommend the chicken fingers even more. I'm not much of a chicken finger fan, usually, but these are amazing. On Tuesday, they are on Special! The deli counter is well stocked with a wide range of cold cuts and meats. I'm sad that they no longer stock Greek Feta, as deli Feta difficult to find in Pickering. Moving on to the bakery, the in-store baked breads have been vastly upgraded, and you can now get some bakery quality breads here. This is a welcome change! The health food section is excellent for a grocery store, and you can get all sorts of healthy and organic things there, as well as vitamins. They stock rye flour, and its one of the few places that carry it, as well as Bob's Red Mill grain products. The adjacent pharmacy has basic pharmacy needs, and they fill prescriptions also. The Joe Fresh clothing section sells a variety of reasonably fasionable clothing (for a "grocery" store). The wine and beer selection is also great, featuring mostly Ontario products. The grocery aisles are much narrower than they used to be, and sometimes it can be a challenge to get through! Here, the selection is much the same as it always was. The PC and No Frills brands are generally very good value, and sales are well advertised in the flyer. Recently, the International Foods (both fresh and frozen) offers a bigger selection, selling, among other things, frozen Chinese selections from T & T. This is a great upgrade!. It was true 3 years ago, and still is; this would be a great destination in a zombie apocalypse. You could literally live in this store. They even have alcohol to calm your nerves in such a crisis!

Don't ever call these people. I called to ask for a specific product if they can take a look if…read morethey carry it and she said no and then she said no again and then she hung up the phone on me. That's what you get if you go to blue sky . They will not get a penny from me!! I live 10 km away from their location. No wonder they only have 3.0 stars out of five !!!Absolutely rude. DONE-BANG!!!

If I could sum up my shopping experience, it would be, "I'm loving it!" Even in COVID-19 times,…read morethey are well stocked with fruits and veggies which have been essential in staying sane by still cooking fresh meals. The staff are still courteous and take extra precautions by wearing masks and gloves in the store.

Attended their grand opening for new management however foods and many items did not have any kind…read moreof process tags.... They didn't even greet people just stood around outside taking pictures infront of their cars? Poor customer service already and had high hopes.

It was my first time trying the La Rocca Chocolate Fudge Brownie Cheesecake and it was so delicious…read moreI had a chocolate-gasm with every bite! A friend got it from this Farm Boy location for my birthday and I had to write a rave review. I loved the combination of tastes with the creamy vanilla cheesecake, dark chocolate ganache, homemade brownies and a heavenly pool of buttery caramel on top! One of my favourite new cakes!

Reasonable prices, good selection of food both fresh and hot and the staff is friendly. Definitely…read morerecommend.

Clean place , staff are friendly they match about 3 to 4 places flyers which helps quite a lot …read more Food is fresh and well kept . And also provide rain check when its out of stock

FreshCo is a member of the Sobey's family. It is the cheaper more down-to-earth alternative. It's…read morekind of hit or miss with what you can find here. We came here while they seemingly had specials for Diwali. There were a lot of Asian vegetables that are hard to find like Indian and Chinese eggplant as well as some melons and root vegetables. I was pretty impressed with the freshness and overall appearance of the produce as well. I expected most things to be cheaper at Freshco than say a Sobey's or a Metro. The ground beef was not actually cheaper and was almost a bit pricier. They have a limited selection of meats so I wonder if it was the scarcity that made the price higher. There is also no fresh seafood at this location. We were looking for scallops and they didn't have frozen ones either. An employee that we asked about the scallops actually didn't know what they were and pointed us in the direction of the scalloped potatoes, oops.

Tip: Collect PC Optimum points at this store…read more A few months ago, I was at Rexall at the corner of Finch Avenue and Dixie Road. In the same plaza was Derek's Your Independent Grocer store. It intrigued me back then, especially with a Loblaws store close by on Kingston Road. I needed to get some groceries before I took in a matinee flick at Cineplex in Pickering. My original thought was to hit the Food Basics near this movie theatre. My route had me passing by this grocery store. Hey, why not give this place a try? I was driving eastbound on Finch Avenue. I took a right into the parking lot. It was spitting rain. I parked fairly close to the entrance and walked over to the entrance. I like that shopping carts don't require that you scramble for change to unlock it. I got a smaller one, as I didn't need a ton of items for this haul. I then walked in. I always like visiting a supermarket that I've never been to. I liked the produce section. Everything looked fresh. It wasn't overwhelming, as it is smaller supermarket. Prices are slightly expensive, as it's technically affiliated with Loblaws. However, I like the selection and variety. I needed celery and an avocado. They were both in pristine condition. The latter looked like every one was super ripe, but it wasn't the case when you held a few in your hand. I got a pineapple. There was a sale. Yay! In the prepared food section, wings were on sale. My highlight was seeing a perogies meal, complete fried onions and coleslaw. Wow! It was cool seeing sushi pockets in the frozen food fridge in both tuna mayo and salmon teriyaki. I grabbed the former to try out. This store also had beef rolls for hot pot. Impressive! I got a box of St Hubert tourtière in a pack of two that I've never seen before. I liked the smaller size that you can heat and eat. I wasn't planning on getting any pop here. However, I saw 7up in zero-sugar watermelon. It was new to me and a limited edition. I needed to get a case and did. This place had a ton of ICEE drink packs. It gave summer vibes early. I found the discount section. I ended up getting some ramen and a pack of PRIME drink packets that were heavily marked down in price. There was so much to see. I was extremely happy to have found bottles of furikake. I grabbed a bottle. This store has human cashiers and self-checkout kiosks. I went with a female cashier who was pleasant. She admitted that she was tired when she asked me for my PC Optimum barcode a second time. She had already scanned it. I was pleased to see a lavender reusable bag that I could purchase. I've been shopping with a reusable Yelp bag for a few years that has lost a lot of its insulated lining and had seen better days. This lavender bag was larger and would be a nice replacement despite not being insulated. This woman was great helping me place my items in my new bag. I put in the remaining items as she was getting me Disney stickers. I paid with a credit card. I tapped and was done. I thanked this woman and rolled my groceries over to my car. I then put my cart away. I liked shopping here. It had everything that I needed and a lot more. (182)

$4.50 for a bag of ice!!??? What a scam!…read moreShame on you Allan!! $3.50 same day price at the convenience store across the street. $2.75 same day price at the LCBO. Do not tolerate this!!