Freddie’s No Frills

never enough cashiers, long lines, products not priced, items on sale hidden, hard to find, employees with skids blocking aisles.
wildly varied prices… last week a lemon was less than 45 cents, now it’s 60 cents for the same lemon. that’s a hell of an increase!
horrible place

Although it’s very conveniently located at the end of my street, Freddie’s No Frills just happens to be the worst grocery store I have ever visited. No matter what time of day you go, there are always line ups. I’ve often dropped in for one item and had to wait 10 – 15 minutes to checkout. The «1 – 8 Items» line is often abused by people exceeding the 8 item limit by many items. It is not policed in any way by the staff.
Freddie’s also runs out of groceries a lot! The fresh produce section is a joke. How can you run out of cucumbers by 11am on a Saturday morning? There have been no frozen french fries of any type for over a week on multiple occasions now. Heck, they even run out of staple items like Tropicana orange juice, coffee cream and cheese on a Saturday morning! These are not just one offs — They seriously run out off stuff all the time. It kind of defeats the purpose of going grocery shopping at Freddie’s No Frills if you have to end up going to another grocery store to finish your shopping.
The shelves are re-​stocked during the day, so the aisles get blocked with skids of produce waiting to put away. It makes for a very uncomfortable experience in the aisles.
In the year and a half I’ve been going to Freddie’s, I’ve never seen a manager! Freddie is none existent! That just confirms to me that he really doesn’t care about his customers.
There’s an obvious morale problem at this store and I think it’s caused by the management.
Freddie’s No Frills needs a major shake up. The owner and management need to get a better grip and start ordering stock properly so they don’t run out of produce on Saturday mornings. The shelves need to be stocked at quieter times of the day and the staff need to start caring about their customers.

Patrons who want a more inexpensive option than the Loblaw’s down the street at St. Clair and Bathurst come here.
But you «pay» for it in other ways. The store usually lacks cleanliness and there are item in-​stock issues especially for the flyer items that lure you into the store in the first place. There are a whole bunch of missing prices tags throughout the store as well.
If you are willing to overlook these issues and it is a convenient location for you, it will get the job done and most likely on budget. Just don’t expect it to have gourmet items such as international cheeses or premium services like a deli counter (like the Loblaw’s down the street).

(3.5÷5) No frills seems to be positioned as the discount retailer or the cheaper end of the spectrum of large groceries. It does this fairly well imo. Coming from the Caribbean this no frills actually reminds me of the larger Supermarkets back home.
The layout and navigation is simple and straight forward. You would not find as much variety here as you would in the more upscale groceries, their organic selection is limited, but still there is quite a bit being offered with many cheaper alternatives and no name brands for those looking to save a buck.
The produce offering (fruit, veggies, herbs etc) beat my expectations for such a store and I found this and the meat to be noticably well priced. However, some non-​food items and snacks I found to be priced at or higher than other groceries, though I will note that there were cheaper brand alternatives available.
When I visited the store there were 2 cashiers and 1 express Lane open. I have experienced this at Metro as well, however, at no frills it seems people are coming to purchase larger amounts of groceries which take longer Check out times. The cashier was quick and friendly. Also there were people working in the aisles, but again, this same thing happens at other groceries and asking them nicely to allow you space never hurt anyone.

Open some checkouts! I’ve put my basket down and walked so many times. Also, why do the staff need to bring the giant skids out on the floor during business hours. That should be reserved for the night shift. (If they have a night shift). It’s not No Frills stores in general that are bad, it’s this store. Unfortunately I’m stuck going there. Do you think Freddie will read this and make some changes? Rhetorical question.

I was looking for a review of a burrito place on St. Clair when I noticed that there were reviews of Freddy’s No Frills and thought «who the heck reviews a No Frills on Unilocal?»
Well, I’m glad I clicked on this. It was a good laugh because the reviews here are spot-​on. They cover all the bases, except one — this store will have the weirdest stuff in stock but will lack the most usual staples. It’s a shopping experience akin to doing your groceries in Communist Hungary.
For example, they’ll have an extensive selection of tripe, but won’t have homogenized milk.
They’ll have six different sizes of frozen shrimp and the weirdest no-​brand frozen steaks, but they’ll have no chicken breast (fresh or frozen) and for flour the only thing they’ll have in the store is ten-​pounds bags of no-​name whole-​wheat.
They’ll have kumquats in the fruit section but will carry only one variety of apple. Sometimes there are three brands of unflavoured gelatin and mupltiple varieties Italian sodas but only two flavours of cake mix. Other times they’ll have nine flavours of cake mix but no diet coke and no maple syrup.
It is the weirdest grocery store I’ve every frequented.
PS — To add: I have seen Master T of MuchMusic VJ fame here on a few occasions. So this review should be closer to 2.5.
PSS — Oh, and they carry the Pride of Pennsylvania, Herr’s Potato Chips, all year round. So maybe this should be a 2.75 out of 5.
PSSS — So, in the end, I guess I’m the kind of person who reviews a No Frills on Unilocal

Fred’s offers a range of quality products, including fruits and vegetables, at a very
reasonable price. The store is clean and well organized and the staff are knowledgeable and helpful.
Michael Wheeler
Toronto

This is the closest grocery store to my house so I go here frequently. It’s almost always dirty. The stock guys are ALWAYS in the way. ALWAYS. I’ve never seen a cashier smile and they ALWAYS talk over their shoulders to the cashier behind them while they are ringing in your things. ALWAYS. The other thing you can be sure of is that they will ALWAYS be out of whichever pasta is on sale that week. ALWAYS. This place could be easily improved. Sweep sometimes. Give your employees a few hours of customer service training. If you know a product is popular with your customers order more. Problems fixed. I’m giving two stars because I haven’t seen any live rats running around the place. Yet. Oh and prices are good if they ever have what you are looking for.

The store isn’t bad. It’s fine. It’s reasonably clean and it has pretty much what all the other No Frills have. There’s a decent selection of veggies and meat, as well as all the other staples you need. It’s got the basics.
There’s also tons of parking, though I do feel like I’m in a bit of an obstacle course in there. Tons of people walking around the parking lot at all times.

It would be wrong to compare any No Frills to the average Loblaws (or Sobeys). They just don’t play in the same league. That said, Freddie’s No Frills barely lives up to the many other crappy No Frills locations. Joe’s No Frills (at the Dufferin Mall) is much better — cleaner, brighter, better selection and often cheaper to boot! How does that make sense?
Freddie’s is just plain bad. Bad selection. Poor cleanliness. Surly staff. Surly clientele (can you blame us?). Terrible produce. And anyway, Freddie’s pic makes him look like a gangster.
As many say, we go for the convenience, not the shopping experience. Our hope is that as the Wychwood area of St. Clair keeps getting better and better, those of us in the neighbourhood will get a little competition to choose from. Would it kill you, Freddie, to renovate the store so you can still compete when a new guy inevitably moves in nearby? How does Loblaws let you get away with running such a dingy place? Shame.

Pas mal pour les petits portes monnaie surtout au niveau des fruits et légumes!
Celui ci est assez petit mais on peut faire ses courses pour les besoins les plus important! !Juste faire attention aux dates des viandes que vous achetez, c’est souvent limite!

Bön, faut pas être regardant sur le quartier et les boutiques alentour. No frills c’est un peu le Leader Price ou ED canadien. Présentation correcte sans plus, service plutôt rapide malgré le manqué de sourire. Moi j’en demande pas plus tant que c’est pas cher et de qualité.

This No Frills is on my way home from work … plus there’s a liquor store next door.
I stopped in yesterday for the first time on my way home from work.
It looks like a big store but it’s actually a small crappy store. There’s not a lot of choice. The workers were stocking shelves when I was there. There were stocking carts in the way and the workers were quite abrasive (obviously no customer service training). The lack of signs made me wonder what the cost of things were.
I won’t be back. The one at Lansdowne/​Dundas is so much better.

Its not quite as bad as the New Jersey [Pancha’s @ Dufferin/​Eg] of No Frills, but its pretty bad. Let’s say its the upstate NY (Buffalo area) of No Frills.
Cons:
Crappy neighborhood
Not that Close to the TTC bus stop
No butcher or seafood counter
Fairly small store
Often crowded at checkouts
[some] Unfriendly/​poorly trained staff and management
Low stock of shopping carts, and some are in poor shape
Grubby-​ish looking store in need of a reno
Pros:
Low No Frills pricing
If this place wasn’t the only grocery action around I would go elsewhere. But alas, there is Loblaws way to the East, and Metro waaay to the West.