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LETTERS: Shopping options needed in New Westminster

Editor: Re: Buy-Low shoppers upset at store closure, Record , Aug.
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Buy-Low in New Westminster is closing.

Editor: Re: Buy-Low shoppers upset at store closure, Record, Aug. 9

Although we’ll also miss the occasional “can’t pass up” sale items offered at Buy-Low, I don’t think the word “competition” really fits in this case, as Buy-Low is owned by the Pattison group, who also own Save-On-Foods.

I’m sure a lot of folks were wondering at the time the Buy-Low opening was announced, why Sobeys/Safeway had to sell off a store so they’d not be a threat to the competition, yet the Pattison group, i.e. Save-On-Foods, Buy-Low, had no problem having a monopoly.

It would be nice to see a competitive and reasonably priced grocery/food store that has no connection to Sobeys/Safeway or the Pattison group take over the Buy-Low spot as it’s long past due we had another choice. 

J O’Reilly, New Westminster