• The Guardian (Charlottetown), Canada
• Jul 27, 2020
• A5

ALI­SON JENK­INS LO­CAL JOUR­NAL­ISM INI­TIA­TIVE RE­PORTERChef Lucy Mor­row pops out of the Terry’s Berries food truck win­dow for a chat with owner Terry Nabu­urs.

BOR­DEN-CAR­LETON – Any­one look­ing for a smoothie from Terry’s Berries in down­town Char­lot­te­town will be out of luck this sumer.

For 2020, Terry Nabu­urs firedup his bright pink 1981 Dodge

B200 and drove away fromsmooth­ies and the old menu hiscom­pany de­liv­ered at the cor­nerof Great Ge­orge and Wa­ter streets.He pulled the park­ing brake onthe grass out­side Lone Oak Brew­ing Co. in Bor­den-Car­leton and isof­fer­ing some food served up byone of Canada’s top chefs, LucyMor­row.

“Bor­den is def­i­nitely an up-and­com­ing place,” said Nabu­urs, ad­ding Lone Oak has tapped into some­thing spe­cial and gained a lot com­mu­nity sup­port.

“A lot of our nor­mal cus­tomerbase in Char­lot­te­town justwouldn’t be there this year, with

no tourism,” said Nabu­urs.

He al­most didn’t open the truck this year, but when he heard the new brew­ing com­pany was look­ing to col­lab­o­rate with some­one to serve food, Nabu­urs knew he could do it.

Es­pe­cially with Mor­row at the helm.

“We’re re­ally happy to have chef Lucy on this sum­mer. I think happy is a tremen­dous un­der­state­ment,” said Nabu­urs, about the sec­ond­place fin­isher on Top Chef Canada. “I don’t want to say it be­cause she’s here, but, to me, she’s the best.”

Mor­row called her de­ci­sion to run the food truck “one of those COVID plans”.

“I had my plans for the sum­mer and then ev­ery­thing got changed.”

Mor­row was look­ing for akitchen for the sum­mer and likelyex­pected to be con­sid­ered forwork in one of Nabu­urs' other es­tab­lish­ments – Wheel­house in Ge­orge­town or Thatcher’s at Bog­side

Brew­ery in Mon­tague.

The of­fer she re­ceived was a curve­ball.

“What do you think about being on the food truck out in Bor­den?” Nabu­urs pitched his idea.

“That sounds kind of fun,” Mor­row replied.

She knew Lone Oak was bring­ing some life to the coastal heart of P.E.I., and wanted to be a part of it.

To de­sign the menu for the lit­tle pink truck, Mor­row col­lab­o­rated with Nabu­urs’ ex­ec­u­tive chef.

“We just wanted peo­ple to be able to see things they en­joy and serve a cou­ple re­ally good sand­wiches – and sup­port as much lo­cal as we can,” said Mor­row.

The sum­mer 2020 menu in­cludes the best-sell­ing Salt­daddy lob­ster melt – a com­bi­na­tion of fresh lo­cal lob­ster, chives, their house cheese blend and dux­elle – a lo­cal mush­room paste with gar­lic, shal­lots and but­ter.

An­other pop­u­lar choice is the

Ceretti’s sausage sand­wich fea­tur­ing sausage made by the lo­cal gro­cer on a cia­batta bun with mari­nara, cheese, ba­con and scal­lions.

“The lo­cals are re­ally happy to see that name on the menu,” said Mor­row.

“It’s a pretty renowned name around here,” added Nabu­urs. “I’m bi­ased now, but trust me, it’s one of the best sausages I’ve ever had.”

Nabu­urs plans to keep the food com­ing four days a week in Bor­denCar­leton year-round, as he con­tin­ues to grow his en­ter­prise from its mod­est start mak­ing smooth­ies in the re­fur­bished de­liv­ery truck.

• The Guardian (Charlottetown)
• July 21, 2020

Walmart Canada said on the Monday it plans to spend $3.5 billion over the next five years to strengthen its e-commerce business, as the COVID-19 pandemic prompts a largescale shift to online shopping.

The Canadian arm of the world’s largest retailer also said it would renovate over 150 stores, more than a third of its network, to add more equipment such as shelf scanners, robots and more convenient self-check-out options.

Walmart, like many other grocery retailers, has seen a surge in online demand as consumers limit trips outside their homes. The company’s online business grew 74 per cent in the first quarter ended April 30.

As part of the investment, Walmart also said it would spend C$1.1 billion on building two new distribution centres and promised to create hundreds of construction and supply chain jobs across Canada.

Walmart Canada added that it would expand in-store pickup to about 270 stores – or 70 per cent of locations – by end of 2020.