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An owner-run food shop, near Garrison Crossing.
Seventeen thousand hectares of Chilliwack is farmland, carrying more than 700 farms, and close to 30 per cent of the local economy comes off that ground. It is the largest dairy producing area in British Columbia, with poultry and greenhouse growing behind it. The practical result for a shop selling food here is that the supply lines can be extremely short, shorter than a supermarket buyer would ever bother with. Clancy's Meat Co. is listed under grocery, which on this site means the independent half of that trade; the national chains are not included. The name points in an obvious direction, though the record itself goes no further than the category.
The postal code places it in Vedder, which runs from the Sardis edge down to the river and has been the fastest-growing neighbourhood in the city. Most of that growth is at the south end, around Garrison Crossing, built on the grounds of the Canadian Forces base after it closed in 1997, and Vedder now holds more people than anywhere in Chilliwack but the downtown. That is a lot of new households within a short drive, and it is the kind of catchment a specialist food shop needs in order to work outside a high street. The customers are there, in other words, and close by.
Nothing else on the listing is filled in. There is no street address, no website and no phone number, which puts a limit on how much use this page can be on its own. What is stocked and how it is sold are unknown here and should be treated as such. Vedder is where the record stops, and it does not narrow things past the neighbourhood. Turning up and asking is the only route this page offers, so it is worth arriving with a question rather than a shopping list.
In the Vedder neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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