A busy grocery store bustling with shoppers only a few weeks ago, Food Island is now shuttered and empty, with some in the Asian community saying they feel a particular loss over its closure.
The store, an anchor tenant of the Oxford and Wonderland shopping plaza, specialized in Asian groceries and closed earlier this month. Shoppers who spoke to CBC News said they knew something was up when the stocks on the shelves started to dwindle without being replaced.
“[The closure] really surprised us, and it’s had a really big effect on our life,” said Rui Yang, an international student