Who we are
We’re the Gunsolus family and the team that works with us on Rye Street. We plan food orders with Ontario families, item by item, and deliver them on our own truck. Here’s who we are and how we work.
Google groups our reviews into topics, and meat quality comes up more than anything else.
All our meat comes from Ontario farms, and it’s all-natural. It’s cut and wrapped for your order after you’ve told us what you want, then stored in our freezers in Peterborough until it goes out to you.
This is the part that surprises people first time round. You tell us how thick you like a steak. What size roast fits your oven and your table. How much ground beef you’ll actually get through in one go. Whether the chicken comes whole, halved or in portions.
It’s written on your order, and that’s how it comes, labelled so you can find it in the freezer. None of it costs extra.
Three families have run Shopease in that time. Since 2018 it has been the Gunsolus family: Steve, his partner Meghan and their daughters Scotland, Margo and Eva.
We’re growing, and the business runs on a team. Food Planners sit down with families and build their orders. The office books the deliveries and keeps the paperwork straight. Our drivers carry the food in. A lot of our customers first heard about us from a parent, a neighbour or somebody at work.
Things sometimes go wrong in a food business. Here’s a customer describing what happens when they do.
That’s the standard we aim for. Whoever carries your order down to the basement freezer works for us. If something isn’t right, call and you’ll talk to someone in our office.
These are printed on the order you sign.
Everything we deliver carries a 12-month quality guarantee. Your unit prices are locked for 36 months from the day you sign. And you have 14 days after delivery to tell us an item doesn’t suit your family, and we’ll replace it.
You sit down with one of our Food Planners and work out how your family really eats on a Tuesday night when everyone’s tired. They’ll ask what nobody in the house will touch, and roughly what you’re spending on groceries now.
Then they build to that number. The order is meant to replace part of what you already spend, and to last the length of your plan. If it doesn’t, that’s ours to fix before you sign. The call is free and nobody asks you for payment details.
You get the quote in writing and sign online when you’re ready. We pack the order, deliver it on our own truck, and call you before the plan ends to talk about the next one.
We’re at 7-774 Rye Street in Peterborough. Fair warning, it’s a working warehouse and freezer, so there’s no storefront to wander around and it isn’t much to look at. But if you’d like to put a building to the name, call (705) 745-4242 first and somebody will be expecting you.
The quickest way to check us out is our Google reviews. Our customers wrote those, and a lot of them mention how many years they’ve been with us.
All over Ontario, on routes that run out of Peterborough. Home here in the Kawarthas, down through Northumberland, into Oshawa and Durham, east to Kingston, and north to North Bay and Sudbury.
Every town we call at is listed on the where we deliver page. If you can’t see yours and you’re not sure, text your postal code to (705) 304-0080 and we’ll tell you straight either way.
Our customers think so. Meat quality is the topic that comes up most in our Google reviews, and more than one review describes trying grocery store meat for a while and coming back. Our meat is all-natural, from Ontario farms, cut and wrapped for your order, and it stays frozen from our warehouse to your freezer.
Yes, and it costs nothing extra. Steak thickness, roast size to fit your oven, ground beef in the pack size you'll get through in one go, chicken whole or halved or in portions. It's written on the order, and it's cut the way your family wants.
We are. Shopease Foods Inc. has been trading out of Peterborough since 1984 and we're on our third family of owners. You'll find us at 7-774 Rye Street, and the phone numbers on this page reach actual people.
The Gunsolus family: Steve Gunsolus, his partner Meghan and their daughters. They're the third family to own the company since 1984.
Call us and you'll talk to our office. You've got 14 days after delivery to tell us an item doesn't suit your family and we replace it, and everything carries a 12-month quality guarantee. One customer's review mentions us replacing a Christmas ham on Christmas Eve.
No. Nothing shows up unless you ordered it. You agree on an order and we deliver it. Near the end of your plan we call you to review it, and if you want another order we build it on that call. Nothing renews on its own.
No. Your Food Planner tailors the order to the freezer you already have, and we may bring it in more than one delivery. If you want more room, we sell chest and upright freezers at our cost.
No. To quote you we need to know how your household eats and roughly what you spend. Payment only comes up once you've decided you want to go ahead.
Take the two-minute survey and we’ll draft one from your answers, or book a free consult and build it with a Food Planner. No obligation, and nobody asks you for payment details.
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