Bulk Barn — Restaurant in Nanaimo

I do love that I can find some hard to find grains and pulses at Bulk Barn but it really could be so much better. It's such a shame that half the store is dedicated to just junk food, while it's tough to find some basic cooking ingredients such as cannelini beans, regular black beans, red beans (they're different from kidney beans but a common bean used for chilis), whole red lentils, just to name a few. Canada is a leading producer of some of these pulses and you can't find them anywhere. At least bulk barn has farro and pearl couscous! Also a hard find around here at grocery stores. I grew up eating these foods and I understand they are less common here, but is the Canadian diet really that limited? The same pasta, the same usual wheat grains, green lentils, split peas, and tons and tons of candy. The poverty of selection for non-sugary foods is a sad reflection of the standard canadian...

Very disappointed with their inconsistent policy guidelines and hard nosed inflexibility of senior employee regarding reusable containers. On a previous Sunday a freezer ziplock bag was accepted as I asked when I had a hard container weighed, today they wouldn't accept the 3 reusable ziplock freezer bags that I filled. These are not their disposable single use plastic ones that they supply or just a produce one use bag from a grocery store, but a practical, designed for reuse plastic alternative and best for space utilization in a freezer. The lady at the cash however was pleasant and friendly and is much better suited in dealing with customers than...

This Bulk Barn location is clean, well cared for, with attentive staff. They offer your typical Bulk Barn deals such as Senior and Student cheap Wednesday. The reason this location lost a star is due to the constant lack of closing twist ties with the paper on them to write the order number. They are also often out of pencils, so we have restored to bringing our own and writing on the bags if we run out of...