Sucks about Henry's, but I am not sure if there is any brick and mortar business that won't follow suit, at least they are doing it early on and not wasting time trying to keep shit afloat when there is no point. If they were able to do this quick chances are these stores were already on the chopping block for some time now. I think it's a good opportunity for a lot of these retailers to cut out the low performing profit centers via restructuring and double down on their profitable locations and online. It allows many to get out of long term leases/severance liabilities at a reduced cost if they do it now under these conditions than trying to maintain status quo.

Customers at Longo’s locations across the Greater Toronto Area will now be required to wear masks or face coverings while shopping in the stores.

At a crown corp I used to work at .... they mandated a 20% reduction in fees that contractors can charge, so that kinda sucks.

https://www.cp24.com/news/longo-s-says-c...tores-1.4923329

They can't, I keep talking to my guys that run commercial Class A + some independent strip malls. From the restaurants at the class A 50%+ are gone, not coming back and closed for good. The strip malls are fairing better, I think this is because it's usually independent smaller landlords/cheaper rent/both scrappy entrepreneur types (not franchise owners) and are working together.

Crazy to hear you are down to 5%, damn. I remember visiting one of your locations in Barrie, it was a main strip (can't remember the name of the street), place was popping and food was great but you were entirely setup for dine in. Are the government programs going to be enough to get you through?

Feel safer shopping at Asian grocery stores now. Everyone there including employees wear masks.
Went to Nations today, they were handing out gloves and masks as people enter.
No line ups.

I only have 2 of my 13 tenants that have been able to pay me for May including myself.

That location is our biggest and sprawls across 2 buildings. Our capacity is around 550 and we haven't had a single person in it since March 16th. It's a big restaurant that pivots to bar at night. We shut down for a renovation in January that we hadn't fully paid for, so this hit us at a really really bad time financially.

Luckily I pulled out a lot of weed money that I've been sitting on, so we'll have no problem making it through... but our burn rate between the 4 locations is about $15k/week right now.

i gotta say, this line bypass for front line workers is nice. granted, i don't use my super powers for evil, but masked up and everything and went in, was in and out in 5 mins. they let me go infront of everyone lined up outside and waiting for the cash too.

i gotta say, this line bypass for front line workers is nice. granted, i don't use my super powers for evil, but masked up and everything and went in, was in and out in 5 mins. they let me go infront of everyone lined up outside and waiting for the cash too.

this is why were doing as much of our grocery shopping online either amazon or pay and pickup, no going in stores

... Have ... Have you tried?

Amazon's like 3-4 weeks out for random shit even if you have Prime membership, and last we checked diapers were out of stock.

Order Online + Curbside Pickup for groceries? Forget it. Timeslots are unavailable, whether it's direct with the store (Fortinos, Walmart), or thru Instacart, etc...

I'm the peasant that does our shopping now (unless the wife does what she wants when she wants and gets takeout) ... and we spent $1800 fucking dollars last month ...

We also picked up a fridge + freezer and shoved it into the basement ... Need to start prepping/packing meats into smaller portions into freezer bags etc... FFS eggs, fucking eggs get the beatdown each time and we lose a few FML we go shopping.

... Have ... Have you tried?

Amazon's like 3-4 weeks out for random shit even if you have Prime membership, and last we checked diapers were out of stock.

Order Online + Curbside Pickup for groceries? Forget it. Timeslots are unavailable, whether it's direct with the store (Fortinos, Walmart), or thru Instacart, etc...

I'm the peasant that does our shopping now (unless the wife does what she wants when she wants and gets takeout) ... and we spent $1800 fucking dollars last month ...

We also picked up a fridge + freezer and shoved it into the basement ... Need to start prepping/packing meats into smaller portions into freezer bags etc... FFS eggs, fucking eggs get the beatdown each time and we lose a few FML we go shopping.

Was gonna order some Mobil1 from Canadian Tire since it's 45% off.

Put it in cart.
Says "In store purchase Only"




I changed the location and it worked.
I guess some locations don't even offer Curbside pick ups.

How is the produce using these online ordering things? I'm really picky when it comes to produce and it probably makes up 80% of my grocery bill. Pretty sure I don't want someone else picking my veggies and fruits for me.

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i gotta say, this line bypass for front line workers is nice. granted, i don't use my super powers for evil, but masked up and everything and went in, was in and out in 5 mins. they let me go infront of everyone lined up outside and waiting for the cash too.

Anybody nervous about Quebec's restrictions easing up? I'll admit that I am nervous because there's nothing more that I would love to have life to go back to normal.