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Nester's Market
About Nester's Market
A short walk to pick up dinner rather than a drive across town is one of the everyday advantages of living downtown, and Nester's Market gives that option to the offices, apartments and older houses packed into the core of Kelowna. The store holds a grocery address at 1111 Lawson Avenue, a few blocks back from the Okanagan Lake waterfront, and the line for the store is 250-717-8263.
Neighbourhood grocers of this size work differently from the warehouse format out on the highway. Aisles are narrower, produce turns over faster because the floor cannot hold much of it, and the meat, deli and bakery counters tend to be staffed rather than self serve. That suits downtown living, where fridges are small and shopping happens in short trips rather than one big weekly run. If you are after something particular, a cut of meat, a case of something ordered in, a cake for the weekend, a phone call is usually quicker than walking the aisles and hoping.
Parking in the core is the usual Kelowna calculation: easy enough outside the summer peak, tighter once the beaches fill and the festival season starts. From Pandosy or the Lower Mission it is a short run north along the shore, and from Glenmore it drops straight down into the city centre. The chain keeps a page for the Kelowna store at nestersmarket.com. For anyone new to the valley, downtown is one of the few districts where a full grocery trip on foot is realistic, and this stretch of Lawson Avenue is part of the reason why.
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