Gordon’s No Frills

OMG it’s my favorite of the three No Frills now (Broadway by Cambie and Pine/​West 4^th being the other two). This place is HUGE! I love the free big parking lot. I also love how big the place is. This is more like a regular grocery store than the other two. Their selection is HUGE!
I was literally shocked at the rack of lamb, tons of huge hams (as in Christmas dinner size for 8+ people), halal meats, etc. What’s next, oxtail and innards like kidney, liver, gizzard!!! (But seriously, that’d be amazing because I happen to love all those too).
I still can’t get over how big this store is. Half of this store alone is the size of the Pine/​West 4^th location. Also, I really liked how many checkouts were open so there was no line at all. Same pricing as the other locations and not half as busy as the other locations.

What a place!!! Some good deals to be had… been there a bunch of times now and every time I seem to have gotten there right after numerous busloads of old Chinese people were dropped off… better to go later in the evening… after the busses leave again ;)

This is a newer No Frills, but I won’t be going back. The clientele is too sketchy for me. The fact they have a security guard in the grocery store section (as opposed to near the exits) says it all.
Nothing wrong with the inventory, store, or prices though. As good as any other No Frills.

And the gentrification continues… The corner of Clark Drive and Hastings Street is not a high rent section of east Vancouver, but it’s getting that way, thanks in part to stores like No Frills. When I first started staying in the neighbourhood, one had to be careful not to step on a spent syringe and you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a couple of hookers. Each year has brought new delights to the ‘hood; first an oddly out of place Vespa dealer, then some treadyesque coffee shops and diners, more recently No Frills Grocery store. To wonder at its success in this neighbourhood is only to try to get a parking spot in its awkwardly small parking lot. No Frills offers a low budget shopping convenience to all that enter its bright yellow walls. With a decent, and more importantly inexpensive, selection of everything from produce and baked goods, to frozen foods and all those bright yellow generics, this grocery store is here to stay. Directly across the street from Vancouver’s classic Waldorf Hotel, No Frills is a peak into the future of this corner of east Vancouver, and where the Waldorf’s Tiki bar has failed, No Frills will invigorate. Gone are the hookers, mostly, and with the addition of No Frills, this part of east Van. is slowly cleaning the dirt from under its fingernails. Viva la Evolution.

Now I have a new place to kill time while waiting for my car.
I normally wander to the Gourmet Warehouse to look at all the things I don’t need… but I can only wander around for so long without them thinking «What the eff does this woman want?» Now I have a new place to go.
This place is mad busy on a Saturday morning. They have great sales on essentials every week… I hunt out the bags of avocados for $ 2.99… or the bacon that’s bogo… or the cheap Rooster brand of condensed milk. Oh and they have the mini bags of Orville Redenbacher Sweet and Salty popcorn sometimes.
It seems to be a popular location for all the peeps moving into the neighbourhood. The last time I was there, it was Gordon himself who hopped on the cash register to help the rush.

Wow. This is a spectacular place to shop! The store is always bright, clean and well stocked. The floor staff is amazingly knowledgeable and helpful well beyond normal grocery store standards. I am very surprised at some of the negative reviews on here as I shop here quite frequently and have had nothing but positive experiences. Bottom line if your want great prices paired with excellent service and an nice central location, you need to check this place out.

Idiots slacking off I’ve called 6 times and no answer. I need to know where it is I can’t believe they don’t answer the phone must be some really slow people working here

As usual, many incompetent reviews aimed at the irrelevant: a cashier could be having a bad day (hence the below-​expectation service), you could be coming in at the last batch of the best deals (timing is indeed everything), and so on. I’m here to give a competent (objective) review…
I recently moved nearby this nofrills (about 5min with bus/​15min walk), and it seems to have been the best test-​trial option in terms of distance. I live alone and my groceries are limited beyond normality, so cheap prices, decent variety and so-​so quality will do just the trick for me personally. Upon walking to the store from the bus stop just 30sec away, my expectations (for the worst) were absolutely blown away into a land farther than Narnia. On the outside, decent parking, new-​looking building design and a decent amount of Unlock-​With-​A-​Loonie shopping carts. Walking in, I notice an above-​expected quality of cleanliness, space and a logical entrance/​exit/​cashier lanes design. Beyond that (the real «meat»), their selections are absolutely beautiful. Vegetables and fruits, meats (halal too), chicken (halal too), frozen, fresh, and the whole 9 yards of Superstore-​comparable goodness. Prices and stock simply turn me on. $ 25 and 15min later and I walked out with my weekly supply of groceries (some of my purchases were monthly maintenance items).
In conclusion, I couldn’t be more pleased with discovering this store. Skip all negative comments (after you waste your time reading the awe-​inducing incompetence of their reasoning) and take my word for it and give this place a try; of course that’s if this location is convenient for you.

I like this spot! This store is a 80’s throwback when Extra Foods had stores (maybe they still do but I haven’t seen any lately). No Frills has no frills but it is a clean efficient and spacious spot where everything is laid out in a well organized manner. Parking is tricky as spaces are a tad tight. Prices and selection are pretty good.
Recently, I patronized not knowing about their Dollar Sale. One brand and variety of soup went for a dollar a pop! At Walmart, that same can would cost $ 2.19, $ 2.79 at Superstore. At No Frills, I cleared off the shelf using the box liner holding the cans! No limit means I can do that! I also picked up a bagged salad, tomato sauce and sardines!

By far the nicest one. Higher ceilings, wooden planks to give that cozy look and even a bit dimmer than the Fraser one which is clinic bright.
More aisles but most importantly, most are manned (or womanned lol).
A great selection of ice cream, with good deals on Chapman’s but not the Klondike. Good thing they price match.
Big parking lot on the west side.

Good prices for sundries; produce is generally cheaper over on Commercial Drive at some of the smaller shops though.
I’d give this place more stars, but the cashiers make too many keying errors. Seriously, I’ve been here over a dozen times now and over half of those times I’ve looked at my bill once I got home and saw that they put in the wrong produce code and overcharged me for something or even charged me for an item multiple times – kind of defeats the point of discount grocery shopping, right? Funny that I’ve never had a keying error in my favour, either…
Tl;dr: they try to pressure you into grabbing your stuff and getting out as soon as you’ve paid, but take the time to review your receipt before you get out the door to save a couple extra dollars they overcharged you.

I’m not sure why this only grocery store in the area is not getting better reviews.
–new
–clean
–great prices
–good variety
If you’re looking for organic, free range, local, this is not the place. This is a conventional grocery store that is much needed in an up and coming neighbourhood.
The produce selection exceeded my expectations.
I’m giving this place an extra star for the fact others have rated it so low and I was so pleasantly surprised.

I had heard from a few people that No Frills is super cheap. So i decided to go grocery shopping there and check it out for myself.
WORST IDEA EVER!
The environment at No Frills is sooooo depressing. The colors on the wall, to the hobo people all around the store made me literally want to puke. No wonder everything is so cheap there. I called my man and started crieing to him on the phone. I was just so disgusted about the whole environment. I forced myself to grocery shop because I had already cabbed it there and needed groceries. All the veggies looked awful. The bread selection was a joke. They had no Sour Dough bread. Which is an essential in my place.
There is a reason why no frills is so cheap. When you need groceries pay the more expensive price and go somewhere classy with normal looking people to get your groceries people!
I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT IN NO FRILLS AGAIN!

I love discounts. I am a discount wh0re when it comes to shopping. My motto is that the cheaper, the better. This is like a Superstore but with all the generic and cheap brands all in one building which makes it convenient for price comparing. The only problem is that the atmosphere is really unappetizing to do any shopping from the color scheme to layout. It feels so depressing that you feel sad inside to even make anything out of the cheap eats. I am all about gaining meal inspirations from cheap ingredients but where was the inspiration? Customer service is really bad, they look depressed working there. I would be too if I had to be in a building with mustard yellow walls. Getting inside and out of the building is a bit of an annoying maze. They only accept MC and debit for cards. After going to the til with $ 50 worth of stuff I had to leave it all behind which was even more depressing. No CC signs anywhere to indicate this. I saw a CC terminal so just assumed they took all major credit cards.