Joe’s No Frills

No Frills is my local grocery store. I’m usually in at least once a week.
The store is well kept and clean — prices are comparable to other stores and while I crave a little more variety in stock sometimes, I’m quite happy shopping here for the basics.
Staff are friendly while not always knowledgeable — I asked for tahini once and I got a blank stare back as if I were speaking in tongues. I did eventually find it on my own though.
Stock seems a bit low on occasion but the store is good on social media and while it took a while for me to get my favourite peanut butter (crunchy, no sugar added) it eventually reappeared on the shelf.
If you shop at any of the loblaw’s stores on a regular basis, please collect pc points. It’s really worth the few seconds it takes to find your card or open your app!

Yep folks.
Four stars for No Frills.
I mean it’s SO cheap…
I love to make chocolate fondue.
They got for 1.00 each dark or milk choc bar.
And the huge I mean the huge one are under 5.00 $
Yes it’s like going to Costco…
I mean it’s not fancy at all…
And yes you need to pack your bags.
But I don’t care. I love it.
Party time? They got PC pops for 1.00 $
A buck for a 2L of pop it’s purfect!!!
The best part is for 6.00 $…
You got the best PC frozen chicken strips ever.
Super easy to cook VS popular brand.
Yes I am a fan for yearS now!
By PC I mean their home brand.
President Choice. Good stuff!

…there everyday price are good … the staff is great but it’s frustrating to go get a sales item … and it’s not there on the first day of the sale

Was a big fan before Feb 2015. Shopped there all the time and promoted it to everyone. However seems as if the business model has changed since renovations (less aisles/​shelves). Prices are not as amazing as they once were. I’m noticing products promoted as a weekly sale special price… which use to be the regular shelf prices only a few months ago. I’m not a numbers guy or have done the research… but they seem to be about 30% more for a lot of the products I liked.
I am a fan of the President Choice line of products… and as the advertisement says…“It’s worth switching stores for it.”. However they now carry far less President Choice items… especially the sauces.
I will still visit it once in a while for good specials… but it won’t be the main option as it was before. While I find Safeway too «vanella» with it’s options and in house product lines… the meat and seafood products are superior to No Frills. So I guess most my shopping will be back to Safeway for main products and local side street vender for fruits and veggies. «Too Bad. :(

terrible place have sales but dont have the items called manager was no help

Generally the prices here are ok, but don’t expect them to live up to their ‘Price Match Guarantee’. Regardless of following the stipulations in their fine print, the management always has some reason why they can’t offer the same price on the same product from another store.
Produce is oftentimes left rotting on the display stands, and the selection of items is lackluster. Most shelves are crammed with No Name and PC brand which, though they may be cheap, are that price for a reason. And the attitude from the employees just astounds me — they stand behind their til with such a ‘hard done by’ attitude, like we’re so inconsiderate to bring OUR items to THEIR checkout lane.
Overall, this really just has location going for it, but if you don’t mind a walk, I’d suggest Independent Grocery on Davie Street. MUCH better prices, selection of food, produce, organics, and nice customer service to boot.

Worst Owner Ever!
Drives customers away with his horrible attitude
and when i asked a question was absolutely no help.
I dont know how that place even survives between the
despicable management and unruly owner.

Stayed at the Coast Plaza for a couple nights. The Coast is connected to Denman Place Mall. There is even a door in the hotel to enter the mall from so you don’t need to walk outside. There are a surprising number of interesting places within this mall including a Shoppers Drug Mart, a beer and wine shop and this No Frills store.
No Frills (aka Joe’s No Frills) is a grocery store. As the name indicates, the store is pretty no frills. The interior is rather aged looking, but the store is serviceable and clean. The focus here is on the prices as they should be.
The store does have a large produce area and the grocery section is pretty sizable. Though there is less emphasis on fresh meats. And I don’t recall seeing any fresh seafood here. I would suggest going to Safeway or Whole Foods instead for this.
For groceries though, I think this is a great store. It has Grocery Outlet like pricing on some products. You definitely can find some good deals here. Plus I noticed that this store has a better selection of ethnic offerings than the regular grocery stores in the Seattle area. You can find Indian and Chinese items alongside the typical grocery offerings which is awesome.
While I don’t think all your grocery needs are met by shopping No Frills, I would suggest shopping here regularly as they have plenty of deals. And go elsewhere to buy whatever you can’t find here.
Final Note: Remember to bring your shopping bag. Otherwise fork over a nickel for each plastic bag you need.

Convenient location, with the added bonus of being connected to the plaza mall too.
Quite bright, organized and lots of space to move around surprisingly.
Side street parking available too.
just early closing hours considering, 10pm.
and bring your own bags, 5cents for plastic.

Oh No Frills.
Your dollar days make me swoon.
When I enter your doors, with the glaring bright fluorescent luminescence, white tiles, and so many yellow signs and I see those beautiful numbers:
$ 1.00
$ 1.00
$ 1.00.
I, and my chequing account swoon.
But for real. Yesterday I got 2 FULL racks of ribs for $ 7.00. 3 backs of soba noodles for $ 1.00 TOTAL, a box of mandarin orangs for $ 1.00 and sushi rice for $ 1.00.
Talk about helping my budget out tremendously. Plus my husband was stoked on life when he got to eat a full rack of slow cooked bbq ribs for dinner.
I wish every day were dollar day.

This place is a hidden gem for me to stumble onto!
With Whole Foods, Urban Fare, and a nice Safeway nearby in Coal Harbour, one hardly ever treks a few more blocks to find this West End neighborhood grocery store.
Everything here is priced reasonably, and their special sales items stacked near the entrance has some unbelievable great deals! I even met the owner Joe himself, working just like any other, stacking veggies near the front the first time I went. It’s kind of funny when the SO pointed on the wall of the large picture of Joe and said «Oh, guess it was the store owner who just helped us!»
I will be coming back for fresh fruit and veggies soon. Beware this is not a high end organic frou-​frou place though. But you can still stock up on your basics for fairly reasonable price and very fresh produce.

A grocery shop that has everything you need and gets the job done. Why spend more for food when you don’t need to. It’s a little messier than your usual grocery store, but I guess that’s why they’re price are cheaper. If you want a «nicer» place to get your grocery; you’ll need to go else where.
Tip: Don’t ware nice clothes here and be ready to say excusqueezeme.

Yes, it may be a retro discount grocery store in the middle of a senior’s mall, but hell; once you get past the feeling of looming death around every corner, it aint bad!
Sure, there’s safeway nearby, but I’m not paying Five dollars for something I can get here for Three!
This place is for people like myself: Working class, not picky, and really just want to go home and make some dinner to feed myself for another week!
I like how nonchalant the staff are as well: They don’t need to prove themselves to anyone. They’re at work, and they know they’re at work. To hell with sickening sweetness! (Exactly how I am at my job!)
PS. If the meat looks bad, don’t buy it! Simple as that!

The low prices may get you all hot and bothered. Any of the No Frills are great, essentially a supermarket equivalent of a ‘Dollerama”. Well, not that cheap, just discounted. Best part is, no membership needed either, they’ve even got a decent selection of organic produce.
The real reason I go there is because of the over use of the color yellow.

If you’re bent on being an elitist boob you’re going to have no trouble finding fault with No Frills on Denman. It is no more all things to all people than any other supermarket in West End. I have had very little issue with the produce, in fact No Frills has been my go to place for seedless green grapes because they are fresh and usually a dollar/​pound less than Safeway.
I do not buy meat there, but then I don’t buy it at most supermarkets either. I go to a proper butcher shop. For processed packaged frozen foods such as pizzas you won’t go wrong with No Frills. You get the same brands as larger establishments but almost always for less money. I can sacrifice ambiance for consistently lower prices. Think of it this way, for every dollar you save at a place like this, it’s another dollar you can spend on your OWN environment. You choose.
They’re not open as late as the other guys but late enough that I can enjoy an evening walk down the hill to buy the few items I generally get at one time there. Staff have been uniformly courteous if not outright friendly. Sometimes you have to make allowances for culture, and that sometimes English is not the cashier’s first language. Lighten up, they deal with snarling people like you all day, flash a smile and ask how their day is going, it will brighten their day.
The store doesn’t have the same squeaky clean vibe I get from say IGA on Burrard, perhaps the starkness of the décor doesn’t lend itself to «feeling» clean. It doesn’t smell odd or anything like that, certainly it doesn’t have the musty smell that the renovated former Super Valu on Davie still has despite their over three month reno.
Beware that as far as I know they only accept MasterCard, debit and cash. You cannot check out with Visa or American Express.
It’s a place to go get food, not a place to hang out. As a utilitarian mission-​focused shopping experience it works just fine. And it’s pretty cheap too.

The meat, oh the meat. If I had a nickel for every GREEN piece of meat I’ve found there…
The vegetables, oh the vegetables. If I had to make a movie about them, it’d be called «Never Been Washed».
The staff, oh the staff. They can cloud even the brightest of days. If Pooh Bear shopped here, they’d make Pooh Bear cry. Penitentiary for the specially bitter and heinous?
Anything sealed in a bag is OK. They won’t always have the best prices, so do your price-​checks at other supermarkets beforehand. I’ll grant them their biscuits and packaged dry foods (chips, baking ingredients, etc) are usually the lowest prices around. BUT, running the risk of being sorely depressed after being unnecessarily yelled or scorned at by the No Frills staff serves as a deterrent enough for me to pay a little more to shop elsewhere.

Eeeugh, whatever you do, do not — let me repeat, DO NOT — touch the baskets. Yellow like the colour of my skin reflecting the fluorescent lighting and bouncing from the sickly bright yellow signs, these bad boys show every. single. grubby little hand that has ever touched it and every. single. spill of milk that has been left to harden and cake on to its plastic exterior. If you must touch, be sure to use your other hand to pick your veggies.
But it’s a No Frills, so I’ve got No Expectations in terms of overall cleanliness.
What I do expect are cheap prices (buck ninety nine sticky rice, anyone?) — and cheap prices are what I get. I wouldn’t ever buy meat here (I’m picky like that), but the organic free run eggs are awesome, juice is always a better value than anywhere else, and cleaning products are dirt cheap… you know, kinda like the dirt encrusted yellow basket you’ll place it in.

They do have low prices on lot of the items, not all, but on most of the stuff. I don’t like to buy my produce there but packaged items, A okay.
The store is pretty small. They don’t stock some of major brands but I do like their brand of yogurt. It’s not cheap though. They are pretty comparable in prices to other brands.
But apparently, you can bring in different stores’ ads and they will match the price if they have it in stock.
But one thing that irked me was when I purchased a pack of chicken wings. It was in my fridge for couple days and when I went to cook it, it had gone bad.
Totally spoiled, the smell was awful and when I went to return it, the cashier told me that I couldn’t return for money, only exchange for another meat product of the same value. This was fine with me but they were kinda rude about it. Hey it ain’t my fault that it went bad.
(I overheard the cashiers’ conversations complaining about customers while I was exchanging, they are not a very happy bunch there). But then again, they probably get paid s*** and have to deal with customers all day. That might make me bit of a complainer too.
Overall, I don’t mind shopping there but I only pick up only selective items (packaged and their yogurt). I would be more careful about their meat in the future.
And they only accept Mastercard, Debit or Cash.

Really horrible produce: low quality, no selection, and way way way too expensive for what they’re offering. Kind of surprising, actually — I was expecting maybe second-​tier fruits and vegetables at rock bottom prices but what I saw was wilty greens and semi-​rotting fruit at prices that are twice as high as they should be.
The prices on packaged food are not phenomenal either. Forget about meat or cheese, you might as well go to Safeway or IGA. And they don’t accept visa, which is very inconvenient.

If there was ever a zombie apocalypse, this is the first place the zombies would take over. This place literally looks like it should have been in the movie ‘Zombieland’ (I don’t think I’ve said the word ‘zombie’ enough. Zombie, zombie, zombie).
This place is a bland, drab, kinda grubby and as depressing as it gets. The horrendous florescent lighting doesn’t help either. When they said ‘No Frills’, they really meant it.
BUT… If you ignore that gross feeling that you’ve stepped into the 70’s, this place isn’t half bad. Considering the area, the prices are pretty great (Safeway and Supervalue = pricey). The selection can be pretty limited though. Plus, they always tend to but the S-​L-​O-​W-​E-​S-​T cashiers into the express line. Porque???
All in all, in an area filled with overpriced grocery stores, No Frills is a great place to save some cash. and get a mild case of depression.
Zombie…
p.s: The parking options here are BRUTAL. It’s street (metered) parking, and extremely limited.