10/18/2026
A Thank-You to Our Community
To our volunteers, supporters and neighbours — thank you. ❤️
So many of us have had our comfortable way of life taken away almost overnight by an injury or a medical issue. It's frustrating, and it limits what we're able to do physically. We wanted to find a way to give back, so with the help of friends and family we set out with one goal: to help others going through similar things — things that are out of their control.
With the help of Laila and Freddy, his family, their team and ours — Richard, Vinnie, Doug, and of course Charles, who guided us through that very first location — Savecofoodoutlet was able to come to be. And so many more. 🙌
Now Jenny, Stan, Nadar, Sophia, Sky and Michelle, and a list that goes on and on of hard-working, community-minded individuals do the heavy lifting every day. They enable me to do what I can, and to support the community that supported me and my family. Saveco, now run by Freddy and Laila alongside their Costless Liquidation Outlets, keeps growing.
None of the food would be here without the farmers and their hard-working families — the ones up before daylight, through every season, in every kind of weather, so the rest of us have something to put on the table. Thank you. 🌾
Along with that growth come the donations from everyone helping us — bagging sales for customers, greeting customers, leaving extra bags behind for those who forgot theirs, and doing the lifting. As Richard put it the other day, he'd gone through over two tons of carrots and beets and wasn't quite halfway through, with the potatoes, tomatoes, onions, turnips and so much more still to do. I felt awful that I couldn't do it — but it got done. 🥕
And now, with the help of Hope Harbour Ministries, another local organization, and friends, volunteers are starting to step up to help us help our community.
And to you — the wonderful communities, your families, friends and neighbours — thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙏
And a special thank-you to the Angel behind the scenes, who works quietly and prefers to stay just that — private, like us. You know who you are, and so do we. What you do makes all of this possible. ✨
A special shout-out to Tim for stepping up and supplying space for us at our newest location in Simcoe, Ontario — 175 Robinson Street. 📍