This store has superior selection, quality, and presentation of fresh goods, as well as generally helpful employees, compared to nearby Walmart and Superstore competitors - as one would expect from its higher pricing. However, it is seriously lax about Covid19 precautions. Unlike Walmart and Superstore, it does not regularly clean shopping baskets between uses, instead just providing a station for customers to disinfect the handles themselves. Most do not. The interiors of the baskets are visibly filthy. The lineups of customers waiting for checkout are placed so that close contact with shoppers moving between aisles cannot be avoided. The employees working on the shelves often linger in the middle of the aisles, so that one cannot pass them without close contact. The self-checkout machines are poorly programmed - if the customer makes a keying error, there is no delete or backspace option, and assistance from an employee must be summoned - which wastes employees' time, and causes unnecessary close contact between customers and employees. read more
