Escalating coronavirus (COVID-19) case counts in British Columbia include employee infections as reported by major national grocery and drug store chains operating in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
Loblaw Companies Ltd, the parent company of retail chains Shoppers Drug Mart and Real Canadian Superstore provided updates to its COVID-19 employee case listings on March 24, 25, and 26, indicating the following:
- Real Canadian Superstore, 7550 King George Boulevard, Surrey: The last day the team member worked was on March 14.
- Real Canadian Superstore, 19800 Lougheed Hwy, Pitt Meadows: The last day the team member worked was on March 17.
- Real Canadian Superstore, 2332 160th Street, Surrey: The last day the team member worked was on March 12.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 20159 88th Ave, Langley: The last day the team member worked was on March 18.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 7820 Williams Road, Richmond: The last day the team member worked was on March 17.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 8962 152nd Street, Surrey: The last day the team member worked was on March 17.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 22441 Dewdney Trunk Road #102, Maple Ridge: The last day each of the two infected team members worked was on March 19 and 23.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 45905 Yale Road, Chilliwack: The last day the team member worked was on March 18.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 3025 Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam: The last day the team member worked was on March 23.
- Real Canadian Superstore, 8195 - 120th Street, Delta: The last day the four infected team members each worked was on March 16, March 17, March 18 and March 20.
- Real Canadian Superstore, 3185 Grandview Highway, Vancouver: The last day the team member worked was on March 14.
Additionally, Loblaw is reporting a new employee coronavirus infection for a worker at its Sewak's Your Independent Grocer, located at 8200 Bear Paw Trail in Whistler, which is in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. That store employee was last on the job March 22.
None of the locations are listed as potential COVID-19 public exposure sites by Fraser Health or Vancouver Coastal Health.
Loblaw-owned T & T Supermarket posts employee case updates on its website, however, the company has not had a case to report in British Columbia in the last two weeks.
Sobeys Inc, which operates stores like Safeway and Thrifty Foods, updated its B.C. coronavirus case tracker this week to include a second store employee COVID-19 case at its Thrifty Foods at 171 Brew Street in Port Moody. In addition to a previously reported infected team member who last worked March 16, a newly-infected store associate last had a shift on March 17.
