Grocery Stores
Canadian Wholesale Club
About Canadian Wholesale Club
Buying in bulk is a different exercise from the weekly grocery run. Case sizes, cash and carry pricing and a warehouse layout suit restaurants, caterers, camps, clubs and large households rather than somebody picking up dinner on the way home. Canadian Wholesale Club operates on Penticton's Main Street corridor, the commercial spine that carries most of the city's shopping traffic through the middle of town.
A wholesale operation serves a wider area than its own city, and in the South Okanagan that reach counts for a lot. Penticton is the supply centre for Naramata, Kaleden, Okanagan Falls and the smaller communities in every direction, and the region's food businesses swell dramatically with the summer trade. A cafe that runs quiet in February can be feeding a beach crowd in July, and the buying pattern shifts underneath it.
A few questions save time on a first visit: whether a membership or a business account is needed, what the pack sizes look like for the items you actually use, and whether anything can be ordered in rather than bought off the shelf. Bring something to carry cases in, since bulk buying rewards a vehicle with room in the back of it. Several other businesses share the same address, which is worth knowing when you are hunting for the right door, and the Main Street corridor keeps everything else an errand of this kind might need within a short drive.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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