A Guide to Grocery Shopping in Calgary

If you're new to Calgary or don't know much about where to shop your groceries, this post may help you. However this is not all about bargins! This is about where you can see the most beautiful women and the least attractive and repulsive ones! But stop right there! I'm not a pervert. Everyone is attracted by neatness, cleanness, beauty and such. Maybe not everyone. I am. So here I'm going to have ranking of grocery stores and supermarkets of Calgary here. Go through and absorb the information, if you're interested. If you're not please leave without making crude comments:

1) Grocery shopping combined with sighseeing of some of the most beautiful women in the world is offered by Calgary Co-op, Midtown Market! You should mainly go on weekends but weekdays after 16:30 MST also offers good samples. Nevertheless I don't know how the word " Some " could be used for women which actually is a countable term! However you need to keep this in mind that Co-op is generally considered expensive store. It times they have sales which eases of the pain of the shoppers and that's mostly, similar to the other stores, during the weekend. The other thing that I would like to mention is that their membership is a joke. I was member for nearly 9 years and I never got a single Penny back from them! Eventually when my card was broken, I didn't even bother to get a new one! 

2) If you like to see strangely-dressed and styled boys and girls and the same time do a little grocery shopping or have a light meal, I would recommend to check Community Natural Foods on 10th Avenue, SW. You, without a doubt, would see really beautiful girls and women, again and I can tell you that competes with the above store! There in that store you mostly pay for what you get but a number of their items could be found in other stores either at the same price or even a little less but It's not recommended to stay away. They have nice items. I haven't tried their café yet because I normally don't eat outside but it's most of the time packed until they run out of food but then you know if that is packed, that does not necessarily mean it's a good food. Most of McDonald's are packed at noon as well. What does that imply? It means that the majority of the population, even in a country which is considered DEVELOPED don't know sh*t about good food and the right way to eat.

3) Most of Safeway supermarkets, especially these days that the price of almost everything has gone up, provide reasonable prices compare to other stores. There was a time that I only went to Safeway for grocery shopping but know at times I have to check cheaper store, by travelling longer, to find a deal but that's not the case most of the time. Perhaps only 1 out of 10 shopping. Most of the customers of Safeway, in most locations, are the people who either have no other grocery store nearby or don't care about what they pay for whatever they get but there's no doubt that Safeway is most of the time less expensive compare to Co-op. 

4) Now we arrive at The Canadian Super"asshole", one of the most disgusting firms on the face of the earth. People so cheap and nasty that I wish someone could do something catastrophic to the company  that they cannot stand on their feet again! These cheap bastards didn't even have a website when I first came to Canada and I'm not here even for 20 years! Not to mention the disgusting behaviour of them over bread price-fixing! They later offered a $25 gift card but led to more controversy! They needed personal information of the people, I guess including SIN(!) and some refused to provide and I don't know what happened eventually! 

Nevertheless Super"asshole" is a good place for buying fruit, seafood, olives and a number of other items but at the same time a number of items are as disgusting as cat poop! To name, and I'm serious and suggest you to stay the hell as far as you can: Bread and everything in their bakery, most of the meat, particularly Ground Meat of different type, all of the canned food, mostly the stupid brand of No Name®, most of dried fruits, they are from cheap sources where they use all sorts of chemicals to dry the fruit, as well they use low-quality ingredients, anything in their sandwich and deli department and a number of brands of Cheese. 

Do keep that in mind that Super"asshole"'s locations are different. Going to the one in Sunridge or Westwind is equal to going to a corner store in Mogadishu, Somalia, during years of civil war or going to a shop in Amritsar, India! Dirty and nasty floors, customers who have not showered for days and use handmade cheap clones(!) to make themselves good-smelling! It's possible to get yelled at or get hit buy a shopping cart! When you park in the lot, you subject your vehicle and whatever is inside to a big risk but that is everywhere but the risk is a little higher in there. Customer service is even lower than 0! There are places that you go and they don't have customer service. In Super"asshole" the people who are supposed to help you, particularly in those two locations, in fact disturb you rather than helping by their lack of knowledge, skill and understanding of English and that applies to the majority of workers there. Once it took me three people to make them understand what I was looking for and they eventually were not able to help! 

5) And the last but not the least the nastiest, most disgusting, dirtiest and lest appealing grocery store in the entire Northern Hemisphere: Wal-Nasty-Mart! Everything I wrote about Super"asshole" is true and you multiplied that by 1000 and you get the review for Wal-Nasty-Mart. Beside if you go to Westbrook and Marlborough locations you will see the most hideous and horrendous creature that they ever existed in Canada: Extremely obese Aboriginals who have at times half of their tribe with them making strange noises and going from isle to isle, African kids who ride disabled people's motorized cart between the isle and they don't care if they hit you, all sorts of crooks and bandits who just come in to shoplift, you name it. Once I even saw a man who was dressed like Bin Laden and I'm not exaggerating! Seeing these unpleasant people, floors, at time covered in grime and dirt, careless employees and issue such as these made me not to go there any more.

Final Note: I don't consider CASCO even as a store to go into. Let alone shopping in that. So I have no review for that but saying that is a big goose egg!

I hope this rating helps the shoppers. If you like it then you like it. If you don't then you're someone who fools him/herself because that's all based on personal experience and all true. And I'm no cheap man to purchase disgusting, chemically infused, artificial food!

(Photo: For this post I am using a quite different picture! This was taken last week in a Punjabi store in the northeastern part of the city where these people live. It used to be a FutureShop! The store is not as bad as it should be and the prices are good but I didn't buy anything at the time. It's only good for daily shopping if you live in the neighbouring area. For me who lives just by himself and at time is too tired to wash fruits and vegetables, that would be a mistake to shop here)