Grocery Stores
Simply Market
About Simply Market
A city of roughly forty five thousand people supports more than one kind of grocery shopping. Vernon has the large lots out toward the edges, and it also has smaller food shops set into the downtown blocks, the sort of place you walk into for one bag of things rather than a week of them. Simply Market trades at 3419 31 Ave, in the middle of that core.
Independent food shops carve out their own niche, and no two land in the same place. Some lean toward fresh produce and daily staples, some toward imported and specialty groceries that the big chains will not stock, and many fill in around prepared foods, dry goods, dairy and household basics. Because floor space is limited, the mix is deliberate rather than exhaustive, which is why the useful question to ask at the counter is whether something can be brought in or ordered by the case. Small shops are frequently more willing to do that than a large one, and the answer tends to arrive on the spot rather than through a head office.
Downtown Vernon rewards shopping on foot. The main street core keeps its storefronts close together under shade, with Polson Park at the edge, so a grocery stop folds neatly into a run of other errands rather than needing its own trip. Parking on the surrounding avenues fills through the middle of the day and loosens in the late afternoon. Late summer is the season to watch, when produce from the orchards on the benches and the market gardens north toward Swan Lake reaches its peak and the valley briefly grows more food than it can eat.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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