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An independent corner store in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's center since before the malls.
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A corner store in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
Main Street runs through the oldest commercial grid in Chilliwack, the blocks that grew up around Five Corners where Yale Road, Young Road and Wellington Avenue converge. Zando Market carries a Main Street address inside that grid. The downtown holds about 31 per cent of the city's residents, more than any other neighborhood, and a good many of them live within walking distance of a shop of this kind, which is the whole point of a corner store and a fair part of the reason the format has not died here.
Convenience retail does more real work in this city than the phrase suggests. The municipality covers 261 square kilometres and is thinly settled outside the central L, so households in Greendale, Rosedale, Yarrow or up on Promontory can be a ten-minute drive from a supermarket. The village and crossroads shops that serve them often double as the post drop and the lottery counter. The downtown grid is the other half of the picture: the nearest supermarket may only be a few blocks off, but a few blocks is still further than the corner. Branded petrol station kiosks and national chains are left off this list, which leaves the independents, and most of those are family run.
No phone number and no website are published for this business, so there is no way to ask ahead about anything at all, and hours are not recorded. What a shop like this actually stocks varies enormously from one to the next, from a wall of drinks and confectionery to something closer to a small grocer, and there is no substitute for walking in and looking. A shop with the word market in its name may lean toward groceries rather than confectionery, though the term is used loosely across this trade and settles very little on its own. The address is the reliable part of this record; everything else about the place needs a visit to establish.
In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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