Grocery shopping with ease
Sponsored Content - Jul 19, 2021 - Think Local

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Okanagan Falls finally has a grocery store again, and this time around it has never been easier to go shopping.

Little Falls Foods is the town’s new grocery store, courtesy of Derek and Dahlia Millington. It is located at 5129 10 Ave., and it gives Okanagan Falls residents the ability to shop without having to hit the highway.

Thanks to an online ordering system that is easy, functional and prolific, residents don’t even have to leave their homes to shop or get some of the Okanagan’s freshest foods delivered right to their doors.

“With developments in technology, we’ve got a great mix of new-fashioned and old-fashioned at the same time,” Dahlia says. “Our store is like an old-fashioned mercantile and grocery warehouse with a big focus on customer service. At the same time, it’s also got a state-of-the-art online store and inventory management system that makes shopping so much faster and efficient for people.” 

There are many facets of the Little Falls Foods website that make your shopping trips not only convenient, but perhaps even more affordable as well. For example, if there are essentials that you buy weekly, all you need do is click the ‘re-order’ button in your account to put all of those items in your virtual cart. Using the sort and filter function, you can limit the price range of items in view. Or you can search for your item directly using the ‘search’ feature. No need to walk up and down the aisles looking for that one thing on your list.

The technology also allows for you and your family members to add their requests to a favourites list. So your family can build its own little store to shop from. And how many times have you stood in the aisle at the grocery store, staring at an item and wondering if you have it at home? Now you can just walk over to your cupboard to see if you need to buy more or not while shopping.

You can also shop at any time of the day. “It could be a matter of three minutes and you’re done,” Dahlia says. “We’ve worked hard to make the system as user-friendly as possible.”

Looking for items is remarkably easy and advanced as well; you can simply type in one ingredient, and the website will produce a list of every product that features it. Or you can have the products grouped by theme, like ‘gluten free’ or ‘Italian foods,’ as examples.

Most importantly, however, the technology is safe. “We care a lot about our customer’s security,” she says. All you need to do to create an account on the Little Falls Foods site is add in your name, email and a password. 

Pick-up is always free. Delivery is free within seven kilometres if you buy $50 worth of groceries. There is a $5 charge for delivery otherwise.

One other distinctive feature of Little Falls Foods is that it doesn’t sell meat. This makes it the largest vegetarian grocery store in the Okanagan. The store is garnering a lot of attention for its broad and unique product base.

This article is written by or on behalf of the sponsoring client and does not necessarily reflect the views of Okanagan Edge.


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