It’s one thing to open a brand new food store, but it’s another thing entirely to open a new one without ever actually closing the old one.

That’s what Bosa Foods has been doing for several months now at its 7,900 sqft address on Kootenay Street. They’ve been hard at work slowly modernizing the interior on Sundays and after the last shoppers leave on weeknights.

Readers may recall how Bosa triumphantly returned to Victoria Drive in 2017 after shutting down its iconic, 60 year old store two years previously. This is a very different transformation. Instead of being a “from the ground up” construction, they’re taking a fully-functioning building that is barely a decade old and retrofitting it to make it even better.

This means more deli cases, a new finish on the floor, a more efficient checkout area, a commissary kitchen, an expanded collection of kitchenware items, a new demonstration kitchen on the mezzanine (with seating for 36), and much more.

If all goes according to plan (and it has been smooth sailing so far), shoppers can expect the new and improved Bosa Foods to be finished this October. In the meantime, we suggest you keep exploring its many aisles, challenged to find what changed from the day before.

Bosa Foods (Kootenay St.)

Neighbourhood: East Vancouver

1465 Kootenay St.

604-253-5578

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