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Richmond neighbourhood set to finally get new supermarket

Save-On Foods will open later this month at Garden City Shopping Centre, 18 months after taking over from IGA
Alan Campbell
Alan Campbell

The residents of a Richmond neighbourhood will finally get a new supermarket, 18 months after their long-serving IGA closed its doors.

Garden City Shopping Centre – at Garden City and Blundell roads – is about to get a Save-On Foods, with the store set to open on Thursday, March 23 at 7 a.m.

People living in the area have been desperate to get a supermarket option closer to home since IGA shut up shop in the fall of 2021.

The Richmond News reached out to Save-On Foods last week for more details about the opening but have yet to receive a reply.

The News reported at the time of the IGA closure how the supermarket staff at the time were not being retained by the incoming Save-On Foods.

Despite repeated attempts, the News was unable to get a response from either IGA or Save-On Foods.

Staff at the IGA contacted the News at the time to say that none of the workers were unionized and none of them were being kept on when Save-On moves in.