Marco Ovies is a staff writer for Dished Vancouver, covering food news in and around the city. He loves cats, overpriced iced coffees, and a good cheeseburger.

<p>Folks in Burnaby will no longer be jealous of their neighbours in Vancouver and Coquitlam now that No Frills, the Canadian discount supermarket chain, shared online that it plans to open a new location in their neck of the woods.</p>
<p>&#8220;BURNABY, get ready!🔥🔥 Something HUGE is dropping soon, and we’re so excited to meet our new neighbours!&#8221; wrote No Frills on its Instagram.</p>
<p>No Frills is a discount supermarket chain owned by Loblaws that, as its name implies, cuts out extra services and &#8220;frills&#8221; to reduce costs. One of the ways the chain does this is by leaving items in the cardboard boxes rather than unpacking them.</p>
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<p>The first No Frills store opened in Toronto in 1978. Since then, the chain has opened over 300 locations across Canada.</p>
<p>An opening date for the new grocery store has yet to be announced, but patrons can expect to visit sometime in early 2026.</p>
<p>Recently, No Frills was named one of the <a href="https://dailyhive.com/canada/air-canada-no-frills-trusted-brands-canada" target="_blank">most trusted brands</a> in Canada at the annual BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards, which honours the brands Canadians trust the most across consumer products, food and beverage, grocery retail, health &amp; OTC, home goods, petcare, services, and retail and restaurant categories.</p>
<p>The awards reflect the opinions of 45,394 Canadian shoppers who collectively provided 240,033 brand evaluations across 363 categories in the 2026 BrandSpark Canadian Trust Study.</p>
<p>Among the winners, No Frills and Maxi (both discount grocery stores owned by Loblaw) were voted the most trusted grocery stores for low prices nationally and in all regions, including Western Canada, Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic.</p>
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<p>However, not all Canadians are happy with the grocery chain. In 2024, Reddit user herec0mesthesun_ shared their <a href="https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/discounted-groceries-no-frills-not-worth-it" target="_blank">disappointment at the quality of the discounted produce</a> sold at No Frills.</p>
<p>“Even the 50% off in produce isn’t worth it because they’re either moldy, slimy or just rotten and stinky. 🤢” they said.</p>
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<p>This isn’t the first time shoppers have complained about “rotten” food at Loblaw-owned stores, with others sharing photos of <a href="https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadians-call-out-loblaw-selling-moldy-expired-food" target="_blank">mouldy and expired food</a> being sold by the grocery giant.</p>
<p>Are you excited for this new No Frills location? Let us know in the comments.</p>
<h2>No Frills — Burnaby</h2>
<p><strong>Address: </strong>4780 Hastings St., Burnaby</p>
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A Canadian discount supermarket chain has shared that it will be opening a new location in Metro Vancouver in early 2026.