The start of 2021 has meant more Metro Vancouver stores being hit with COVID-19 cases involving staff members.
The Real Canadian Superstore on 120th Street in Delta had a staff member testing positive – they last worked on Dec. 28, but due to reporting times the exposure was only listed on Jan. 5.
Another Superstore saw a worked testing positive – this time at the S.E. Marine Drive location in Vancouver. They last worked on Dec. 30.
The Superstore at19851 Willowbrook Drive, Langley, had team members who tested positive on a presumptive test for COVID-19. The last day the team members worked was on Dec. 21, 23 and 27.
A worker at Alfie’s No Frills on West 4th Ave. in Vancouver tested positive and last worked on Dec. 31.
Multiple workers at the Superstore in Surrey on 104 Avenue tested positive, but Loblaw has listed the dates they last worked on its website that tracks cases.
A worker at the Safeway on Luckakuck Way in Chilliwack tested positive and last worked on Dec. 27.
An employee at a Coquitlam Safeway also tested positive for the coronavirus. That’s according to the grocery chain’s parent company, Sobeys Inc., which issued an exposure notification for its 580 Clarke Road location on Christmas Day. The company indicated the worker last worked at the store Dec. 22.
Two employees at a Real Canadian Superstore in Coquitlam also tested positive for the coronavirus in the store’s third exposure notification in less than a month.
The chain’s parent company, Loblaw Companies Ltd., listed an exposure notification Tuesday, Dec. 22, noting the employees last worked at the store on Dec. 12 and Dec. 18, respectively. This is at least the third time the Real Canadian Superstore in Westwood Mall, located at 3000 Lougheed Highway, has been hit with COVID-19.
As the largest food retailer in Canada, Loblaw oversees a large portfolio of brands in addition to Real Canadian Superstore including T&T Supermarket, No Frills Supermarket and Shoppers Drug Mart, among others.
T&T, which is also owned by Loblaw, posts employee COVID-19 test positive cases on a public webpage. The Asian grocery giant has not reported any recent store worker cases in British Columbia following a single case reported by the company Dec.14 at its Lansdowne mall location in Richmond, involving an employee who last worked Dec. 8.
- With files from Cameron Thomson, Vancouver is Awesome and Stefan Labbe, Tri-City News
