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Nesters Market
About Nesters Market
Filling a cooler for a week beside the lake is one of the standard Osoyoos routines, and Main Street is where most people end up sorting it out. Nesters Market sits at 8130 Main Street, in the downtown core where the highway, the shops and the beach access all run into one another. A full grocery shop in a town this compact does a double job: it feeds a permanent population of a few thousand through the quiet winter months, and it absorbs the summer surge of families who arrive with a rented cabin and an empty fridge.
Grocery stores of this size generally carry the whole weekly shop rather than a narrow selection, which means produce, dairy, meat, bakery, frozen goods, pantry staples and the household items that sit alongside them. Departments differ from one store to the next, so it is worth a call to 250-495-6818 if you need something particular, such as a custom cut from the meat counter, a platter for a group, or a cake ordered ahead for a family gathering down at the beach.
Timing matters more here than in most places. Osoyoos swells through July and August, and again in the weeks when the valley fills for harvest and wine touring, so the middle of a hot Saturday afternoon is about the busiest a small town grocery gets. Early mornings and evenings tend to be calmer. Store information and any online ordering options are set out at nestersmarket.com, which is useful if you are driving down from a colder part of the province and want to work out what to bring against what to buy once you arrive.
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In the Downtown Osoyoos neighbourhood of Osoyoos.
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