The flyer came in the local newspaper. I noticed the PriceSmart foods name and expected that the closest one was in Surrey. I remember stopping at one on the King George highway and struggling with the self-service check out. I think we had to walk in through a picket line to get in the front door. The union was peeved that the parent company called the Overwaitea Food Group switched the premisis from its former Save-On-Food brand and fired all the senior, highly-paid workers.I did notice that the flyer showed the grand opening of a store not far from here. We seldom have the need to cross into Burnaby on Marine Way. The brochure said it was at Byrne Road but I could not picture anything in that area. It was just industrial and agricultural land as far as I could recall. So, I drove only a mile and a half beyond the Queensborough Bridge and sure enough, there it was! There is a whole business development with a Canadian Tire, London Drugs, Mark's Warehouse and the small shops that surround anchor stores like calves to a teat.
I suspect the shopping area is targeted to those on Burnaby's south slope that don't wish to tangle with the crowds at Metrotown. Retail keeps getting larger and larger. It also continues to get closer and closer.