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A West Coast Mango Quest
Fruiticana founder Tony Singh spent years cultivating a kingly mango to stock his grocery stores.
Publisher: TheTyee.ca
Author: Christopher Cheung
Date: April 18, 2022
Tony Singh is on his way to the mango room.
It takes a while to get there from his office even though they’re in the same building, because his cavernous warehouse in Surrey’s Newton neighbourhood is a vast 125,000 square feet. This is the headquarters of Fruiticana, the grocery chain Singh started back in 1994. He’s grown it into an 18-store empire across B.C. and Alberta, beloved by locals for fresh produce and South Asian kitchen essentials...