Store Facts: Loblaws Heartland Mississauga ON

Welcome to another Store Facts Post! Today's store will be the Loblaws in Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga. This store opened sometime before June of 2003. This store has the older Market decor package, which is becoming rare as most stores with this decor package has been remodeled to Great Food or Inspire. Aside from that, it's you typical older barn-model Loblaws store.

Layout

The layout follows a typical Market Layout with produce and service departments on the left and a later addition of Joe Fresh and Books & Magazines in the front right of the store. This store still has its Market signage intact, complete with old U-Scan Self Checkouts and old flooring. There's no map since I only been in here a few times. I may upload one in the future.

Aerial View

Below are a few Google Earth aerial views of the Loblaws. Not much changed to the building itself between 2003-2019 aside from more stuff being built around the store.

Google Earth Satellite Imagery from June 2003

Google Earth Satellite Imagery from June 2019

This is a interesting Loblaws. They are usually not this bad at not remodeling (or at least updating the signage) a name-sake store.

Until next post, DZ

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