What do the locations of big-name grocery chains, independent businesses and fast-food enterprises tell us about Scarborough versus the East York/Beaches areas?
The Good Neighbour Project, a volunteer organization that launched in March 2020 to deliver groceries and other necessities to the vulnerable, has helped thousands of people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its volunteers have no intention of stopping.
Demand for grocery deliveries are surging because of the coronavirus pandemic. DuDu offers home delivery of items from an Asian supermarket.
Taylor Trudel, 23, walks along the produce aisle, her black shopping basket swinging lazily at her side. The voice of Canadian singer Bryan Adams floats down softly from the speakers, not quite loud enough to drown out the buzzing of the fluorescent lights. Trudel reaches her hand under the spraying mist of the produce shelf and carefully places some lettuce in her basket.