The Pharmasave at Broadmead has picked up a national retail award not generally handed out to pharmacies. Later this month the location’s front store manager Rhea Cavelti and assistant manager Michelle Beaumont are going to Toronto to pick up the 2016 Retailer of the Year Award, as chosen by the Canadian Gift Association, known as CanGift.
“We are so excited, it’s humbling to receive an award, as a pharmacy, that gift stores could win,” Cavelti said. “It inspires us to look for unique items for our customers.”
The store opened in Broadmead Village in 1991 and is locally owned and operated by Andrea Hyndman, Satnam Lalli, Michelle and Dave Jeske. About 2,000 of the 10,000 square-foot store is dedicated to giftware and décor items from Vancouver Island and around the world.
The store is involved in many fundraising campaigns including Canucks for Kids, Canadian Cancer Society and Variety the Children’s Charity and other local non-profit groups, schools and community fundraising efforts.
CanGift’s Retailer of the Year Awards are based on retail criteria such as visual merchandising and store design; business achievements; advertising and public relations; and community involvement.
The awards ceremony in Jan. 29 in Toronto.