“He really lived for the customers, and you could see that. He wouldn’t even close for the store for a few minutes if we asked him to. ‘No, my customers. It’s not good for the customers.’ ”
– Thevarani Kumarasamy, Luxmii’s Video Grocery, on her late husband’s passion (John Lehmann/John Lehmann/Globe and Mail)
“It has a little bit of everything. It has foods from all around the world.”
– Rose Shahrokni, Danial Foods (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)
“We really didn’t know the community [when we first opened], we kind of plopped in. But now, because we’ve been here so long, we know the neighbours, the neighbour’s kids. Some of those kids [left home] and came back as adults.”
– Harry Mah, McGill Grocery (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)
to get it and come back to see the ad in front of this gallery.
![“We really didn’t know the community [when we first opened], we kind of plopped in. But now, because we’ve been here so long, we know the neighbours, the neighbour’s kids. Some of those kids [left home] and came back as adults.” – Harry Mah, McGill Grocery (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)](http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/189/news/british-columbia/article4575969.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/web-bc-stores29nw3.JPG "“We really didn’t know the community [when we first opened], we kind of plopped in. But now, because we’ve been here so long, we know the neighbours, the neighbour’s kids. Some of those kids [left home] and came back as adults.” – Harry Mah, McGill Grocery (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)")
