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Renos enhance shopping experience at Esquimalt
Shoppers at the Esquimalt Country Grocer have likely noticed both a little more elbow room lately, and a lot more selection! From the front of the store to the back, the focus has been on maximizing the space available – for customers and staff to move about the store, and to stock more of the items shoppers want. “The customers have been very happy with the changes. We have all brand new tills and customer service desk, which has improved traffic flow immensely,” says store manager Brad Boughton, who designed the tills with the help of a local carpenter. “It’s nice to be able to support these young local guys.” Shoppers will also notice three new cooler cases at the front of the store, chock-full of mid-week specials and other treats. The former post office space is now an expanded nutrition and wellness section, in response to growing interest in supplements, vitamins and other natural products. One of the biggest areas of growth
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Brad Boughton, manager of the Esquimalt Country Grocer, in the store’s newly expanded wellness section. shoppers will notice is in the deli and ‘grab-and-go’ area, perfect for lunch or a quick and easy dinner for the family during those busy fall evenings. In addition to an expanded cold beverage cooler, check out the new 24-foot deli case for prepared meals, sandwiches
and salads to complement the existing deli and bakery items, and a full eight linear feet of cut fruit and vegetables. “We’ve really expanded our grab-and-go offerings,” Boughton says. Still to come this fall are new produce tables and some bakery updates.
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