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SAVE-ON FQODS has brought its procery selling concept to the North Shore — to a popular response.

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While some consumers
are eschewing Save-On in

WHEN THE North Shore’s latest grocery
store opened its doors a few weekends back
it did more than just give consumers another
store to choose from they went to put meat
and potatoes on the table.

Save-On Foods,
located at Marine Drive
and Bridgman in North
Vancouver, helped launch handling regulations —
# grocery price war and came as the grocery scene
its presence kas heavily on the North Shore was
influenced the entire settling into a new regime

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shopping scene here, that relied heavily on
The opening of the Sunday opening.
bulk food store — touch- The increased

ed with controversy over awareness of Sunday as
the changes in bulk food another shopping day and

couver-wide
stores fought to maintain
their share of the market.

municipalities
nas 4 large deyrce of ap- est has touched off

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convenience (iat likes the do it yourself
brought consumers, lad approach
North Van- shopping, the
opening as weeks of operation
Save-On have generated
large crowds as grocery

arrival of shoppers check out
Foods came 2a new operation.
that has As has been the experi-
in other enee in other
and that municipalities, that inter-
serve-yourselt outlet for other outlets

a store- dustry us a whole goes
through a shake-out in
response to the arrival of
everyone the newcomer.

surroundings, a growing
number are finding they
like the concept of shopp-

more often
the packing boxes they
arrived in’ and ;
the items that are bagged
nackaged ut

bins, making it possible
for the shopper to pick

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That convenience,
along with the price
structure, is one of the
major reasons for the
sugeess of the Save-On
Foods concepts at
municipalides throughout
the Lower Mainland.

The addition of the op-
tion of bulk-food  pur-
chasing on a major scale
has proven popular with
consumers elsewhere and,
if the fine-ups here are
any indication, that op-

tion has won its share of

North Shore friends as

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