Farm Boy, the boutique grocery store with the cute name, is set to open its first downtown store at Leslie St and Lake Shore Blvd. East. The news is causing a fair stir on Leslieville Facebook. Opening day is January 31. Farm Boy got its start in Ottawa and has opened stores across southern Ontario with one in Etobicoke. But it has not ventured downtown before now. It also has newly-infused cash from owner Empire Company of Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Empire Company picked up Farm Boy for $800 million in September. Empire notably is the parent firm of Sobey’s. This corrects other information posted earlier.
CHEESE DISPENSING BILLBOARD?
It takes a bit of work to wrap one’s mind around a cheese-dispensing billboard, but that’s what Taco Bell is promoting for its store at 482 Queen West on January 19. Is a cheese dispensing billboard like a utility pole that dispenses yogurt?
