Bananas, bread

I visited this store in the mid-afternoon, so I'm not sure why it looks so dead in these pictures. The mall across the street is always busy whatever time of the day I visit with my grandparents, so this is strange. The produce department at this store hardly feels like a big chain store, with the cheap-looking price tags and boxes of stock stored under the displays; even the classic Walmart flip-chart price signs look weird in this ketchup-and-mustard color scheme. 

Note that things here are sold by the pound -- like most English-speaking countries, Canada is inconsistent with units, and from looking around various Vancouver-area grocery chain websites, it appears that pre-packaged items have their weights advertised in kilograms, but items sold by weight are mostly (but not always) priced per pound. For example, this week's Real Canadian Superstore sale ad (at least the one their website shows me) shows per pound prices for everything except for one item which is per 100g, while Sobey's (Thrifty Foods and Safeway) uses per pound pricing for the produce and meat departments but per 100g pricing for the deli, seafood, and bulk foods departments. You know, maybe being the one country that uses non-metric units for everything isn't so bad after all. 

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