Yes please this is in my area I was wondering what happened and looking for the full scoop! There is another spot on Weston road that sells expired hair and beauty products … I found a relaxer from 2018!!!! It’s probably still there now tbh if you walk in
Keep up the good work! Keep them who cater to the West Indian community to a certain higher standard. I was approached to do financing before in the pandemic.
You guys are so bad minddddddd... Jesus christ. But pleaseeeeeee while you're at it, make a video how she lost everything AND BOUNCED RIGHT BACKKKKKKK!!!!!! NO MATTER HOW MANY of you roaches try to paint her bad ( and for the record, I'm a black woman simply supporting black businesses)! UNBIASED. She is in the process of reopening an even BIGGER grocery store up innah unno rass 😂😂😂😂 weh unno ago do now? Dead? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Go be productive in life and STOP WATCH PEOPLE AND TRY BRING DOWN YUH OWN PEOPLE IT CANT AND WON'T STOP GOD PICKNEYYYYY...😂 Unno nuh see see she just SOLD OUT COMPLETELY at IGLOO yesterday??? Badmind a kill unnoooooʻ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jodi-Ann Bonnick-Anderson, the proprietor of a West Indian grocery store in Canada, is currently facing charges in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, accused of defrauding over $10 million from various business operators. One complainant alleges she received $3.2 million worth of groceries without payment. On another note, it's crucial for our community to support successful Black-owned businesses that not only deliver quality services but also prioritize customer and employee well-being. This situation highlights financial mismanagement and business shortcomings, as suggested by both financial issues and negative feedback from employees and the community. Its important to support the right black business that supports and gives back to black communities by not ones that does the bare minimum...
I heard a lot of people complaining that a lot of the products in the shop was out of date .... I don't think them products coming to their shop was their interest in the business it's something else
She owes my friend 20K for not paying for stuff she ordered from her business ….never paid employees is now in custody in jamaica - like … bad character . I see some ppl defend her in her comments but do we defend those millionaires who built pyramid scheme and ruin ppl lives ?? It’s a character issue . Jodi is of poor character . It can’t fix when you’re like that unfortunately no matter how creative she is she’s a criminal.
Now that she’s in jail…it’s a clear indication that she was justifying her actions, to make it seem as though she’s a victim. She gave it a good “run” in false pretence. Come on, she was scamming people, that’s in itself is wrong, on all levels. I don’t care how well she was running a “business” it was not an authentic, hard working, honest way of doing it! We’re being distracted by her “self pity” story, that we’re not paying attention to her actions and all the people that she scammed, knowing full well what she was doing. God will pull you down.
I'm a old white dude who lived at 5 needle firway for years as youngster tough area if you a knob but I always rember how nice the older people who ran these little markets were sad to see this happen
I saw this coming. I’ve shopped there twice. The second time she asked me to follow her on insta so i did and she followed back. A week later i got an inbox message saying she’s stuck in Jamaica as her purse with her phone, passport and money was stolen in halfway tree and she wanted me to wire her some money until she returned. She claimed she only had her daughter’s iPad and used it to access instagram. I immediately called the store but no one answered. I instantly blocked her and never went back.
$100K / week is not a lot of money when you account for salaries, rent, getting inventory/ paying vendors, taxes, business expenses/ licenses, maintenance, utilities, saving for unexpected expenses … etc. She wasn’t financially and business literate and described more focus on the image of success (eg. Trips, shopping etc.) than the principles needed to sustain a successful business. I hope it was a lesson learned and she will be successful on her next venture.
I would say because I live nearby she was not making g that ki d of money. She was a scammer and that was it. I would notice the men who Shop there were being overcharged without knowing, because they never paid any attention to their cash register. Some of the people behind the register did not even know how to use it. They would charge different prices every time you went there for the same thing. The hydro bill, the landlord these people are owed thousands. My symphony goes to the landlord whose building is still vacant, will likely be for a few years
A 100k a week for 4 weeks is a lot of money. I ran a successful business on 30 to 40k a month. Poor management. I doubt that she made that kind of money.
@@HiSayIt the gyal a tell pure lie 199k a week first of all she only have 4-5 people working in the store their salary come up to about $3500 if do much she is a teeef and in shady business.
It's very difficult to support Jamaican owned businesses when this is the ignorance, unprofessionalism and lack of quality one has to deal with. Word has it that the owner was recently charged in Jamaica for fraud.
I’m from the west end and it’s not uncommon for West Indian Owners to not pay their workers or underpay them. It’s unacceptable and unprofessional. I have had the same experience time and time again. It’s sad because these kinds of stores could be so successful but owners choose to be cheap and unpredictable.
This is why we cant get no where. How many Island grocery stores are there compared to east Indian, italian. Yet we cant trust. Taking sh#t and not paying for it 😔
My daughter and my grandson, who was a few months at the time, went to support her business. She was selling Red Stripe Sorrel for $10 a bottle!! 😮 and without liquor license, at the time (not sure if she got it after) that time. Her approach was not so nice. She looked at my grandson who is a baby, as if he did something wrong. My daughter who noticed her behaviour towards a tiny baby was weird. I also hold the same last name as her, and I asked her where her relatives were from, and she was so vague about it. The way she was as if I came to “beg” her something…. I only asked her, because of the name (slave masters) last name. 🙄 I never went back there, because I don’t think she was that authentic. As a matter of fact, no one at the time was selling the Red Stripe Beer Sorrel except for her…. She sold items that most Caribbean stores couldn’t find. Also she was scamming people in Florida and got caught. This should tell some of us, [NEVER] look at what other people have! Some people post dem “fancy” lifestyle on social media and make it look as if they’re it. And always using “God” name for her “blessings” I’m not surprised that she would go to Jamaica, and try to do the same thing…but Bob Marley says “you can fool some people, but you can’t fool all the people all the time!!”
😢 Bad money management, when you're supposed to reinvest your money back into your business. You spending on the big house and car is a real stupid investment
Was way overpriced.....my boyfriend got me ice cream from there ...I was frighten when he told me $80 for 2 small containers of ice cream that was filled with ice. I use to go there for Easter bun...there were fresh and regularly priced....but everything else was priced out of this world.
Someone wasn't managing the money,probably spending on personal luxury items instead. $20k a day ? There is NO reason you couldn't pay $4000 a month in rent.You could have paid your rent up for 6 mo at a time. Everybody that has a business idea shouldn't go thru it until you've taken classes in how to properly run a business ‼️Why do ppl blame mental health when it's their fault that they won't own up to.
@SuperLovezone Even if someone wasn't managing the store properly, it still doesn't add up for the way she treated people on a whole and her workers as well! In life you reap what you sow! I don't like when people treat other people like dirt
I visited her grocery store on Jane & Weston when she just opened. At that time, all her food was fresh, but overpriced & and there was not much traffic of customers it was fairly new. How she treated her employees turned me off, so I didn't return She scammed too many ppl & had the chance to take accountability for her actions & change. God don't like ugly. GREED IS ONE OF THE DEADLY SINS .... SHAME ON HER!
In the UK there's both best before and use by dates on food and beverage products. There's also businesses that sell expired products by the pallet for pennies each unit, I think this is what this woman done, she purposely bought expired stuff for next to free and made big big money.
Wow! I never really thought about it that way but it sounds right. 🤔 Now that you mentioned it, I don’t think she’s the only one that does it. My goodness!
This is so sad all around kt…I have shopped there twice with my daughter and it was ok we picked up a few snacks and my daughter did check the dates on the items but the lady at the cash looked very disconnected from the place she just scan bag and cash me and that was that didn’t say hi didn’t ask if I found everything nothing at all was said and when I said hi she barely wanted to say hi but now knowing back story that some of the workers weren’t even getting paid it is very sad to hear…I hope the workers found better employment opportunities and I hope Jodi don’t go mad from all of this because this is a lot for 1 person to handle regardless of the actions that she took that got her where she is now…mi shame an ah nuh mi…black ppl let’s do better with and for each other we would be some much further and better in life
In London/UK, you can buy a huge pallet of fruit or veg that needs to be consumed with 2 days for stupid cheap, good for juice/smoothie trucks but not for shops like this.
@@mandip2254 this incompetent woman, they did not even know how to use the cash register, it would take them many minutes to clear 1 item. Many men in the store were overcharged because men tend not to look at the bill. 100 thousand a week nonsense, not wit the few people I saw going to the store. Every one I met said they were not nice. Of course I did not care, her Porsche was the deal, let these people see the expensive car I drive. Sad
Don’t feel sorry for her at all her business was cover an she got found out instead of working things out here left Canada went to Jamaica an still get lock up it’s hard to feel sorry for someone who lacks accountability
Wowwww.....really this girl had her babk acct with over 250k posted on IG...and not paying her workers...Shame😮. Money not handled properly. Maybe Auntie Donna can assist her and give her some marketing advice 🤔 😉
I saw the restaurant on Instagram posted by Marv, the service was horrible, no chef was there to cook the food, so I was asked to wait 15 minutes for the chef to get there but I waited longer than that and no one showed up. She kept making excuses and then the prices were extremely over the top. I left there so embarrassed to have followed the Instagram account and to waste my time and money travel from Ajax all the way into downtown Toronto for a waste. Bought patties that were stale. Due to the waiting in the restaurant I ended up with a traffic/parking ticket. This was not worth a penny. Never doing this again
Question, you said you don’t always check the expiration date when you buy milk do you just take the first milk bag you see what if that milk is expired in the next three days four days you yourself can drink out three bags of milk, grocery stores they put out things and you’ll see 20% discount 30% discount That’s them showing us that look we have things that are about to expire today and if you buy it today you get it at 30% 20% so like logically you have to check the expiration dates it’s like saying this when you go to the flea market and the guy at the stallis selling something that says Gucci are you gonna just buy it? Are you gonna check if it’s real?
Bruh she really needs to stop blaming everyone else. I just realize she fucked up simple. She started to get to it when she said she got rich too fast but then she went back to blaming it on customs and people.
The workers didnt have a bad attitude. They weren't being paid thats why they had an attitude. In this day and age when everything is expensive who wants to work 4 free??? Even if tht store reopened i still would not shop there. First impression is everything. Reputation GONE!!!!! Nutten would ever get me to spend my money and support tht business!!! Especially when no respect is involved!!!!
I always walk by there and wondered why they always had a mean face to the point I’d walk out … they have like bbqs in the summer but the attitude was too much
At least she has self awareness and admitted to where she went wrong. As a business owner myself things can get very overwhelming fast if you're not prepared, especially if your doing it all on your own. At least she tried, i hope this doesn't diacourage her from improving her business. As for the mugshot from her past people are such haters👎 at least she turned herself around. The main thing that bothered me was her not paying her employees. This should never happen. Other then that i repect her for being open and honest about where she failed and respect the fact that she worked hard. Great content btw loving the channel❤
Went to the grocerystore once to get some food and they never even looked at me so I left. They catered igloo last year and they messed up there so I wrote them off.
Exactly! Distraction from telling what happened, to (self) pity. Im sorry, but she wasn’t here for her community, she was here to take the community money for her “lavish” lifestyle. We can only go so far until God humbles us….now she will be humbled. It’s sad.
My sister wanted to make the trip Bonnick's from Mississauga, but I'm glad we didn't go. We wanted to support a fellow West Indian but it's a shame that her stores had negative reviews. She knew how to market herself to the new generation and sold those hard to find items from back home.
So what does mental health has to do with you not paying your workers & treating your customers like dirt? Dont you know people like u always ends up like this? And then u tink you was gonna run out de country under a fake name & get away with it? What about de people you did wrong to and their tears pon your head? U was too hype!
She’s looking for a way out. Nothing she said sounds genuine. She’s a mastermind. I won’t be surprised if she comes up with something up her sleeve 😂😂😂
I shopped there once half of the stuff was stale, ridiculous prices and the store had a bad smell to it. Drove over an hour to the store to be so disappointed....
I shopped there once and I got some fresh parrot fishes, she had just got them so the fishes were good. I did not get the chance to go back there. I am a business owner in the GTA and I must say the badmind thing is legit in this country.
I know 3 different people that dont know each other that drove distances to support the store but they all 3 said everything there is expired. It isnt simply badmind
Here from my post on Tiktok. She had potential for her multiple businesses. The fact that she migrated here from Florida and did the same thing. You would think she would've learned when she legit got a second chance. I had a feeling something was up with her when i last went to the grocery store last April. But gave her restaurant a chance when I was passing it downtown a few months back.
Customs would only hold your murchandise if you did not pay. Sir any one can say they wanted to kill themselves. She live the big life at the expense of people whom she scammed. Just imanage if you were the one who rented her ykur store, no rent, the store is sitting there empty no rent coming in i feel sorry for the landlord.
Sound like she ah clean money...open close, open close ...come on guys! Either that or she just Over spending the money on herself, rather than maintaining. Everyone is now on this Mental Health..while they scamming people.
This b!tch *actually* crazy saying she was making 20k A DAY LMFAO. I've actually worked for businesses (dispensaries) that did those type of numbers in 2016-2018. The amount of foot traffic she would need; continuous lines, 5+ registers and cashiers on deck, open 12 hours for business, anywhere from 10-30 people standing in line waiting to be served for most of that 12 hours. This was a dispensary, very minimal overhead costs as opposed to a freaking restaurant! Her profit margins must not have been THAT great. She can't pay 4k a month but has noooo problem spending 20k at the mall lmfao get real
That’s crazy only if she was serious about running the business. she’d have trucks coming in everyday, and overnight workers, big bank, second store. This downfall needs to be studied and documented 😮
I love the way you try to stay unbiased as a journalist very admirable🫡🙌🏽 however you can’t make excuses for other people’s actions and shortcomings and nowadays everybody a bawl mental health issues instead of admitting & addressing the(ir) shit until everyone become fed up n pointing out the obvious n poxy attitude/treatment they have to try to put up with from black business proprietors/owners ….Esp when money start mek🙄 always want to support my ppls but bwoi more time dem mek it real difficult na lie
Here is the story: A Canadian citizen who is accused of receiving $3.2-million worth of goods will have to remain in custody for almost two weeks before knowing her fate. This as investigators indicated that the woman has defrauded more than $10 million from other business operators. Jodi-Ann Bonnick-Anderson is before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to answer to one count of obtaining goods by fraud, with one complainant claiming that Bonnick-Anderson received $3.2 million worth of groceries from her. Brief allegations detailed that Bonnick-Anderson operates a West Indian grocery store in Canada and credited the goods from the complainant. She has yet to pay for the items. However, her attorney-at-law, Vincent Wellesley, argued that his client did not benefit from the transaction, as she transferred the funds to a third party, who was instructed to pay the complainant. "That person has died and he was the only beneficiary of this incident. There is proof of this wire transfer in her phone," Wellesley submitted. The lawyer indicated further that his client is with child and is experiencing complications with the pregnancy. "She is being treated for a medical condition in Canada; she is spotting. She is not a flight risk," the lawyer said, adding that his client was willing to make restitution to the complainant. "She has to stay where it is warmer," responded Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque, on the heels of utterances by the prosecutor that investigators are to record further statements from other complainants. Bonnick-Anderson was made the subject of a fingerprint order and remanded in custody until February 20, when a bail application is to be heard. - T.T.
Bro everything that you are saying is true. they are rude and the stuff are expired and VERY expensive. I will continue traveling to danforth if need to
I believe you because i went there and buy eggnog and the egg was becoming chicken now and a crazy jim ice cream cake and it was just ice and i bring back the eggnog and get icecream instead and when i look on the dates of things everything a fuckry suh mi never guh back a raas
Health is more important dont buy sht for this place got really bad stomach pain and vomit after drinking some bottled jamican drink it tasted soo amazing but when i finish the drink i notic black tar in the bottom and i drink some tooo it tasted like corrosive metal 🤢
People seriously underestimate the food industry and just how hard it is. I suspect that she was able to apply for a number of Toronto grants (some grants give you $250,000 depending on your business if it's brick and mortar etc!) it looks like she spent money on advertising and when the grant money started to run out as I have seen with other businesses she didn't know what to do or didn't have the integrity/support system to I turn things around. Her claim of making $20,000 a day I think is a hauty embellishment. that would mean she is serving a minimum of 1,000 people per day spending at least $20 each. The numbers just don't make sense and to me indicates a scammer mentality, the kind of person that goes broke looking rich. It sucks because she does seem like she has a talent for cooking maybe she can start something up out of her house as a home cook. But she clearly needs to get herself out of that scammer mentality. The devil is a liar and when you make your house his home God will give you what you deserve
She knew how it worked, because she had an agenda….to live large. So, yes, no one could have done it “better” than her . “Mental health” 🙄🙄🙄🙄 She’s using all dat video to distract us from her behaviour! Kmt . 🙄🙄🙄
Bro it's sad, we need to do better, these practices work in some of the Caribbean, like where I live, however, they take these practices abroad and think they can get away with it. Bad attitude rule in our paradise Island it's embarrassing. We have food that's year years out of date, clothes on racks for years and still want the same money, if you dare to challenge they get offended. However I work for my money did not come free, and I don't beg steal or borrow from them. We need to hold them all responsible. I lived in my parents home land for 10 +. What happens is that we are not the tourist whether at home or abroad. In the country and town where I was born many years ago. We had one shop to provide Caribbean food and it's still the same 60 years later. Sad sad sad. We screw ourselves over and over again at home and abroad. Sorry for the long things. Blessed. We need to raise our standards.. Money, power success got to her head. got in
I tjink shes looking sympathy 😅 i don't believed her caused why makinh such money and not paying her workers? moreover she was over pricing people she got caught up with the crazy hype😅... and new that she was selling peopl spoid food...listening to her now what shes saying is dead also her eyes tells it all...
Ah Pinocchio sister Dat. JA judge gonna fix her. Her lawyer saying she's pregnant and has to go back for spotting. Judge seh she will be alright it's warner here remand until Feb 20th poor she.
Trust me I went in there for plantain and avocado and I saw the price!! I walked right over to no frills found them cheaper…and they didn’t even look that good all produce
Wait you were living the high life and didn't pay your employees? That is the height of wickedness. How you expect them to work for you and not get paid. Of course they're going to have an attitude. As for your customers, they too deserve better. You obviously had no plan for the future of your business and the money that you would make. I understand the issue dealing with customs, but why? Other stores bring in similar products and they are never in such poor condition as yours. Sorry for what you are going through. I really hope things turn around for you. You have extraordinary business sense, but you just need guidance and positive people around you.
If you don't pay customs, you cannot get the merchandise. The woman was a scammer like the men in jamaica scamming Canadians out of millions. I feel sorry for the lanlord whom she owes thousands in rent. The store is still unoccupied and will probably will be that way for a couple.e of years. Can you imagine you not getting the rent for your place.
Welp! Overhyped places like this has never appealed to me. Imagine spending your hard earned cash on expired trash, from a business owner who's an even bigger trash!
The cran -wata…was $$. I can’t fully member but she was selling 1 for bout $3. No Frills 3min drive to Jane & Lawrence sells few days expired cran-wata 2/99 cents and they still taste good even weeks after expiration with proper storage.
@@GRIMZSTREAMINGNETWORKfun fact cranwata is 3 week shelf life. Ntn to do with this criminal, but as a business owner, big up 3billz mi likkle chargie, but the cranwata short fi true. Years, nooooooooo.
Not once mi hear shi apologize to my people about the rotten expired food shi sell. Wolf wolf wolf the term bad mind is so cliche. Mi never buy yuh rotten food and mi naah tek yuh pill. Mental health issues is real but it’s an excuse fi yuh fi use. No frills til spills
It wasn't all that your presentation was a little bit too big for those shoes , I was just living down the Road from there I heard about their prices and never went in once, not when we got star fish just down the road from there selling the same things.😅😅😅😅
Then she went from talking about driving her kids to school crying at a steering wheel to harming herself. I’m sorry I have a child and I don’t know life without my child so kind of thoughts
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Part 2 coming soon …….👀
Yes please this is in my area I was wondering what happened and looking for the full scoop!
There is another spot on Weston road that sells expired hair and beauty products … I found a relaxer from 2018!!!! It’s probably still there now tbh if you walk in
Keep up the good work! Keep them who cater to the West Indian community to a certain higher standard. I was approached to do financing before in the pandemic.
Ramchech is her cousin
People rob their own kind however when they look at white person store they think they are ripping them off
You guys are so bad minddddddd... Jesus christ. But pleaseeeeeee while you're at it, make a video how she lost everything AND BOUNCED RIGHT BACKKKKKKK!!!!!!
NO MATTER HOW MANY of you roaches try to paint her bad ( and for the record, I'm a black woman simply supporting black businesses)! UNBIASED.
She is in the process of reopening an even BIGGER grocery store up innah unno rass 😂😂😂😂 weh unno ago do now? Dead? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Go be productive in life and STOP WATCH PEOPLE AND TRY BRING DOWN YUH OWN PEOPLE IT CANT AND WON'T STOP GOD PICKNEYYYYY...😂
Unno nuh see see she just SOLD OUT COMPLETELY at IGLOO yesterday???
Badmind a kill unnoooooʻ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jodi-Ann Bonnick-Anderson, the proprietor of a West Indian grocery store in Canada, is currently facing charges in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, accused of defrauding over $10 million from various business operators. One complainant alleges she received $3.2 million worth of groceries without payment. On another note, it's crucial for our community to support successful Black-owned businesses that not only deliver quality services but also prioritize customer and employee well-being. This situation highlights financial mismanagement and business shortcomings, as suggested by both financial issues and negative feedback from employees and the community. Its important to support the right black business that supports and gives back to black communities by not ones that does the bare minimum...
I heard a lot of people complaining that a lot of the products in the shop was out of date .... I don't think them products coming to their shop was their interest in the business it's something else
JMD?
She owes my friend 20K for not paying for stuff she ordered from her business ….never paid employees is now in custody in jamaica - like … bad character . I see some ppl defend her in her comments but do we defend those millionaires who built pyramid scheme and ruin ppl lives ?? It’s a character issue . Jodi is of poor character . It can’t fix when you’re like that unfortunately no matter how creative she is she’s a criminal.
Now that she’s in jail…it’s a clear indication that she was justifying her actions, to make it seem as though she’s a victim. She gave it a good “run” in false pretence. Come on, she was scamming people, that’s in itself is wrong, on all levels. I don’t care how well she was running a “business” it was not an authentic, hard working, honest way of doing it! We’re being distracted by her “self pity” story, that we’re not paying attention to her actions and all the people that she scammed, knowing full well what she was doing. God will pull you down.
"They used rubbing alcohol to remove the expiry date" and your laugh after reading the peanut butter part had me 😆😭😭
I'm a old white dude who lived at 5 needle firway for years as youngster tough area if you a knob but I always rember how nice the older people who ran these little markets were sad to see this happen
I had a friend who worked there. She went a whole month without getting paid. Jodi was a teeffffff
I saw this coming. I’ve shopped there twice. The second time she asked me to follow her on insta so i did and she followed back. A week later i got an inbox message saying she’s stuck in Jamaica as her purse with her phone, passport and money was stolen in halfway tree and she wanted me to wire her some money until she returned. She claimed she only had her daughter’s iPad and used it to access instagram. I immediately called the store but no one answered. I instantly blocked her and never went back.
Wow!!😮 I’m glad you didn’t believe her….
Wow 😮 that is WILD
Scam artist that!
That story 😂 is wild
“I’m not going to be wicked” I loved this new term boy- also great, well made content!
Thnx ❤
$100K / week is not a lot of money when you account for salaries, rent, getting inventory/ paying vendors, taxes, business expenses/ licenses, maintenance, utilities, saving for unexpected expenses … etc.
She wasn’t financially and business literate and described more focus on the image of success (eg. Trips, shopping etc.) than the principles needed to sustain a successful business.
I hope it was a lesson learned and she will be successful on her next venture.
I would say because I live nearby she was not making g that ki d of money. She was a scammer and that was it. I would notice the men who
Shop there were being overcharged without knowing, because they never paid any attention to their cash register. Some of the people behind the register did not even know how to use it. They would charge different prices every time you went there for the same thing.
The hydro bill, the landlord these people are owed thousands. My symphony goes to the landlord whose building is still vacant, will likely be for a few years
A 100k a week for 4 weeks is a lot of money. I ran a successful business on 30 to 40k a month. Poor management. I doubt that she made that kind of money.
@@HiSayIt the gyal a tell pure lie 199k a week first of all she only have 4-5 people working in the store their salary come up to about $3500 if do much she is a teeef and in shady business.
It's very difficult to support Jamaican owned businesses when this is the ignorance, unprofessionalism and lack of quality one has to deal with. Word has it that the owner was recently charged in Jamaica for fraud.
I’m from the west end and it’s not uncommon for West Indian Owners to not pay their workers or underpay them. It’s unacceptable and unprofessional. I have had the same experience time and time again. It’s sad because these kinds of stores could be so successful but owners choose to be cheap and unpredictable.
This is why we cant get no where. How many Island grocery stores are there compared to east Indian, italian. Yet we cant trust. Taking sh#t and not paying for it 😔
My daughter and my grandson, who was a few months at the time, went to support her business. She was selling Red Stripe Sorrel for $10 a bottle!! 😮 and without liquor license, at the time (not sure if she got it after) that time. Her approach was not so nice. She looked at my grandson who is a baby, as if he did something wrong. My daughter who noticed her behaviour towards a tiny baby was weird. I also hold the same last name as her, and I asked her where her relatives were from, and she was so vague about it. The way she was as if I came to “beg” her something…. I only asked her, because of the name (slave masters) last name. 🙄 I never went back there, because I don’t think she was that authentic. As a matter of fact, no one at the time was selling the Red Stripe Beer Sorrel except for her…. She sold items that most Caribbean stores couldn’t find. Also she was scamming people in Florida and got caught. This should tell some of us, [NEVER] look at what other people have! Some people post dem “fancy” lifestyle on social media and make it look as if they’re it. And always using “God” name for her “blessings” I’m not surprised that she would go to Jamaica, and try to do the same thing…but Bob Marley says “you can fool some people, but you can’t fool all the people all the time!!”
My gawd 🤦🏽♂️
She was not a nice person a friend of mine work for her and she still owe several weeks pay
After you name out all the material things she had, how can you ask what caused her business to closed down
I walked past there last week I didn’t know they closed down for real.. crazy
Rotten food and drink, rent and salaries not paid... all the while she out there flossing lol
😢 Bad money management, when you're supposed to reinvest your money back into your business. You spending on the big house and car is a real stupid investment
Was way overpriced.....my boyfriend got me ice cream from there ...I was frighten when he told me $80 for 2 small containers of ice cream that was filled with ice. I use to go there for Easter bun...there were fresh and regularly priced....but everything else was priced out of this world.
Someone wasn't managing the money,probably spending on personal luxury items instead. $20k a day ? There is NO reason you couldn't pay $4000 a month in rent.You could have paid your rent up for 6 mo at a time. Everybody that has a business idea shouldn't go thru it until you've taken classes in how to properly run a business ‼️Why do ppl blame mental health when it's their fault that they won't own up to.
No amount a class/training can’t stop a dam thief
@SuperLovezone Even if someone wasn't managing the store properly, it still doesn't add up for the way she treated people on a whole and her workers as well! In life you reap what you sow! I don't like when people treat other people like dirt
I visited her grocery store on Jane & Weston when she just opened. At that time, all her food was fresh, but overpriced & and there was not much traffic of customers it was fairly new. How she treated her employees turned me off, so I didn't return
She scammed too many ppl & had the chance to take accountability for her actions & change. God don't like ugly. GREED IS ONE OF THE DEADLY SINS .... SHAME ON HER!
In the UK there's both best before and use by dates on food and beverage products. There's also businesses that sell expired products by the pallet for pennies each unit, I think this is what this woman done, she purposely bought expired stuff for next to free and made big big money.
Wow! I never really thought about it that way but it sounds right. 🤔 Now that you mentioned it, I don’t think she’s the only one that does it. My goodness!
She is not explaining why she lost the business
I'm.not going to lie the store looks clean still. Looks better than most dega dega west Indian stores.
But Remember deggee diggee still open pretty look can not feed no 1 right now
“They used rubbing alcohol to rub off the expiry date” had me laughing harder than i have in months
This is so sad all around kt…I have shopped there twice with my daughter and it was ok we picked up a few snacks and my daughter did check the dates on the items but the lady at the cash looked very disconnected from the place she just scan bag and cash me and that was that didn’t say hi didn’t ask if I found everything nothing at all was said and when I said hi she barely wanted to say hi but now knowing back story that some of the workers weren’t even getting paid it is very sad to hear…I hope the workers found better employment opportunities and I hope Jodi don’t go mad from all of this because this is a lot for 1 person to handle regardless of the actions that she took that got her where she is now…mi shame an ah nuh mi…black ppl let’s do better with and for each other we would be some much further and better in life
In London/UK, you can buy a huge pallet of fruit or veg that needs to be consumed with 2 days for stupid cheap, good for juice/smoothie trucks but not for shops like this.
All of the Jamaican store check the dates on the stuff
I went 1 time, everything was overpriced and I noticed expired snacks. didnt buy anything & never went back.
Almost all those things can be had for wayyyy cheaper at Chinese grocery stores icool is 99 cents and the average West Indian store is like 2.99
Very true
Chinese using West Indian branding but they are Chinese products.
Sometimes we have to support our own though.
@@mandip2254 this incompetent woman, they did not even know how to use the cash register, it would take them many minutes to clear 1 item. Many men in the store were overcharged because men tend not to look at the bill. 100 thousand a week nonsense, not wit the few people I saw going to the store. Every one I met said they were not nice.
Of course I did not care, her Porsche was the deal, let these people see the expensive car I drive. Sad
Nice video, editing skills on point, the commentary bare jokes 😂 Sourah, wicked & lie 😂😂😂😂
Thank you 🙌
Don’t feel sorry for her at all her business was cover an she got found out instead of working things out here left Canada went to Jamaica an still get lock up it’s hard to feel sorry for someone who lacks accountability
Wowwww.....really this girl had her babk acct with over 250k posted on IG...and not paying her workers...Shame😮. Money not handled properly. Maybe Auntie Donna can assist her and give her some marketing advice 🤔 😉
@@elainejames6494I
Did she pay Auntie Donna?
exactly
Great video! People are saying been ripping people off in Florida & has some lawsuit with a Hardrock in Punta Cana too.
Oh wow!
yup heard about the FL deal but PC damn
I saw the restaurant on Instagram posted by Marv, the service was horrible, no chef was there to cook the food, so I was asked to wait 15 minutes for the chef to get there but I waited longer than that and no one showed up. She kept making excuses and then the prices were extremely over the top. I left there so embarrassed to have followed the Instagram account and to waste my time and money travel from Ajax all the way into downtown Toronto for a waste. Bought patties that were stale. Due to the waiting in the restaurant I ended up with a traffic/parking ticket. This was not worth a penny. Never doing this again
No man 🤦🏽♂️
Question, you said you don’t always check the expiration date when you buy milk do you just take the first milk bag you see what if that milk is expired in the next three days four days you yourself can drink out three bags of milk, grocery stores they put out things and you’ll see 20% discount 30% discount That’s them showing us that look we have things that are about to expire today and if you buy it today you get it at 30% 20% so like logically you have to check the expiration dates it’s like saying this when you go to the flea market and the guy at the stallis selling something that says Gucci are you gonna just buy it? Are you gonna check if it’s real?
No I said I you don’t usually check the expiry date unless it’s milk bread or egg
@@GRIMZSTREAMINGNETWORK I do check like All ways
Good editing skills and voice over 👌
Bruh she really needs to stop blaming everyone else. I just realize she fucked up simple. She started to get to it when she said she got rich too fast but then she went back to blaming it on customs and people.
The workers didnt have a bad attitude. They weren't being paid thats why they had an attitude. In this day and age when everything is expensive who wants to work 4 free??? Even if tht store reopened i still would not shop there. First impression is everything. Reputation GONE!!!!! Nutten would ever get me to spend my money and support tht business!!! Especially when no respect is involved!!!!
I always walk by there and wondered why they always had a mean face to the point I’d walk out … they have like bbqs in the summer but the attitude was too much
Don't work with u own people a FORIEGN
“Sowaaa” 💀🤣
At least she has self awareness and admitted to where she went wrong. As a business owner myself things can get very overwhelming fast if you're not prepared, especially if your doing it all on your own. At least she tried, i hope this doesn't diacourage her from improving her business. As for the mugshot from her past people are such haters👎 at least she turned herself around. The main thing that bothered me was her not paying her employees. This should never happen. Other then that i repect her for being open and honest about where she failed and respect the fact that she worked hard.
Great content btw loving the channel❤
Thanks a lot family 🙏🏾
Went to the grocerystore once to get some food and they never even looked at me so I left. They catered igloo last year and they messed up there so I wrote them off.
Do the story about her nail salon 😂
Karma is verrrrrrry real every wickedness have a end. Ms. Karma knows all the wicked addresses too much evil can never proper . PURE EVIL
Girl what you're saying makes no sense. Talk about what you've done to the customers...KMFT
Exactly! Distraction from telling what happened, to (self) pity. Im sorry, but she wasn’t here for her community, she was here to take the community money for her “lavish” lifestyle. We can only go so far until God humbles us….now she will be humbled. It’s sad.
My sister wanted to make the trip Bonnick's from Mississauga, but I'm glad we didn't go. We wanted to support a fellow West Indian but it's a shame that her stores had negative reviews. She knew how to market herself to the new generation and sold those hard to find items from back home.
So what does mental health has to do with you not paying your workers & treating your customers like dirt? Dont you know people like u always ends up like this? And then u tink you was gonna run out de country under a fake name & get away with it? What about de people you did wrong to and their tears pon your head? U was too hype!
She’s looking for a way out. Nothing she said sounds genuine. She’s a mastermind. I won’t be surprised if she comes up with something up her sleeve 😂😂😂
I shopped there once half of the stuff was stale, ridiculous prices and the store had a bad smell to it. Drove over an hour to the store to be so disappointed....
I shopped there once and I got some fresh parrot fishes, she had just got them so the fishes were good. I did not get the chance to go back there. I am a business owner in the GTA and I must say the badmind thing is legit in this country.
I know 3 different people that dont know each other that drove distances to support the store but they all 3 said everything there is expired. It isnt simply badmind
WHT fors " bad mind" have to do with her not putting away for rainy days, or selling expired good?
Here from my post on Tiktok. She had potential for her multiple businesses. The fact that she migrated here from Florida and did the same thing. You would think she would've learned when she legit got a second chance. I had a feeling something was up with her when i last went to the grocery store last April. But gave her restaurant a chance when I was passing it downtown a few months back.
I thought Danforth was the only ghetto Carribean grocery store
😁😆
Scamming from Florida to Canada and brought her business to Jamaica
Customs would only hold your murchandise if you did not pay. Sir any one can say they wanted to kill themselves. She live the big life at the expense of people whom she scammed. Just imanage if you were the one who rented her ykur store, no rent, the store is sitting there empty no rent coming in i feel sorry for the landlord.
My question to u is if the store was making all that money why weren't u not paying ur suppliers? Bad buisness will cause ur life to flunk
I ca t believe shebis bragging about making 20-30k a day. And she couldn't pay her own employees
Where to eat Jamaican take out in Durham? Only place I know is roti and ting
Sound like she ah clean money...open close, open close ...come on guys! Either that or she just Over spending the money on herself, rather than maintaining.
Everyone is now on this Mental Health..while they scamming people.
This b!tch *actually* crazy saying she was making 20k A DAY LMFAO.
I've actually worked for businesses (dispensaries) that did those type of numbers in 2016-2018. The amount of foot traffic she would need; continuous lines, 5+ registers and cashiers on deck, open 12 hours for business, anywhere from 10-30 people standing in line waiting to be served for most of that 12 hours. This was a dispensary, very minimal overhead costs as opposed to a freaking restaurant! Her profit margins must not have been THAT great. She can't pay 4k a month but has noooo problem spending 20k at the mall lmfao get real
She was she had a nail salon the police shut down then she opened this shop
That’s crazy only if she was serious about running the business. she’d have trucks coming in everyday, and overnight workers, big bank, second store. This downfall needs to be studied and documented 😮
I love the way you try to stay unbiased as a journalist very admirable🫡🙌🏽
however you can’t make excuses for other people’s actions and shortcomings and nowadays everybody a bawl mental health issues instead of admitting & addressing the(ir) shit until everyone become fed up n pointing out the obvious n poxy attitude/treatment they have to try to put up with from black business proprietors/owners ….Esp when money start mek🙄
always want to support my ppls but bwoi more time dem mek it real difficult na lie
She fucked up she overstocked
That and probably insurance or something
She's trying to find excuse for her behaviour. She wasn't feeling this way when she was going on holiday and buying up the place
Here is the story: A Canadian citizen who is accused of receiving $3.2-million worth of goods will have to remain in custody for almost two weeks before knowing her fate.
This as investigators indicated that the woman has defrauded more than $10 million from other business operators. Jodi-Ann Bonnick-Anderson is before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to answer to one count of obtaining goods by fraud, with one complainant claiming that Bonnick-Anderson received $3.2 million worth of groceries from her. Brief allegations detailed that Bonnick-Anderson operates a West Indian grocery store in Canada and credited the goods from the complainant. She has yet to pay for the items.
However, her attorney-at-law, Vincent Wellesley, argued that his client did not benefit from the transaction, as she transferred the funds to a third party, who was instructed to pay the complainant.
"That person has died and he was the only beneficiary of this incident. There is proof of this wire transfer in her phone," Wellesley submitted. The lawyer indicated further that his client is with child and is experiencing complications with the pregnancy.
"She is being treated for a medical condition in Canada; she is spotting. She is not a flight risk," the lawyer said, adding that his client was willing to make restitution to the complainant.
"She has to stay where it is warmer," responded Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque, on the heels of utterances by the prosecutor that investigators are to record further statements from other complainants.
Bonnick-Anderson was made the subject of a fingerprint order and remanded in custody until February 20, when a bail application is to be heard.
- T.T.
Bro everything that you are saying is true. they are rude and the stuff are expired and VERY expensive. I will continue traveling to danforth if need to
Waited 1/2hr for my grapenut ice cream... even the damn ice cream was stale🤦🏾♂️
She really cannot explain why she failed.
Most of those foods only give the community lifestyle d&sease.
I believe you because i went there and buy eggnog and the egg was becoming chicken now and a crazy jim ice cream cake and it was just ice and i bring back the eggnog and get icecream instead and when i look on the dates of things everything a fuckry suh mi never guh back a raas
Your English grammar is atrocious yikes illiterate
She has no remorse! She was just doing her.
The narrator’s accent is so Toronto Mon dem. I feel l am back home. 😂 I’ve never heard of this Bonnick’s store but that’s messed up.
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haha! I'm in Western Canada, but yes, I noticed the Toronto accent right away as well. 😆 W
Wow 😮 didn’t even know this was going on 😅
Just followed ❤ Toronto need content like this 🎉
Starfish market is my spot 🫶🏾
They should fifo the stuff first first out 😮😮 if that was the us they would be shut down 100%
I've never heard of that store, but I'm outside of Toronto.
Health is more important dont buy sht for this place got really bad stomach pain and vomit after drinking some bottled jamican drink it tasted soo amazing but when i finish the drink i notic black tar in the bottom and i drink some tooo it tasted like corrosive metal 🤢
People seriously underestimate the food industry and just how hard it is. I suspect that she was able to apply for a number of Toronto grants (some grants give you $250,000 depending on your business if it's brick and mortar etc!) it looks like she spent money on advertising and when the grant money started to run out as I have seen with other businesses she didn't know what to do or didn't have the integrity/support system to I turn things around. Her claim of making $20,000 a day I think is a hauty embellishment. that would mean she is serving a minimum of 1,000 people per day spending at least $20 each. The numbers just don't make sense and to me indicates a scammer mentality, the kind of person that goes broke looking rich. It sucks because she does seem like she has a talent for cooking maybe she can start something up out of her house as a home cook. But she clearly needs to get herself out of that scammer mentality. The devil is a liar and when you make your house his home God will give you what you deserve
Cant beat no frills and chiney
Not chiney😭this got to be a Guyanese person
WHERE IS THIS PLACE? Y U DIDN'T REPORT HER ?
I was going to say i never heard of it but then i saw the box juice.😢
She knew how it worked, because she had an agenda….to live large. So, yes, no one could have done it “better” than her . “Mental health” 🙄🙄🙄🙄 She’s using all dat video to distract us from her behaviour! Kmt . 🙄🙄🙄
It's this the same woman who $45,000 to file for a Jamaican man then dipped
Yes She is
Iknew sumn was up widd har from long time
Bro it's sad, we need to do better, these practices work in some of the Caribbean, like where I live, however, they take these practices abroad and think they can get away with it. Bad attitude rule in our paradise Island it's embarrassing. We have food that's year years out of date, clothes on racks for years and still want the same money, if you dare to challenge they get offended. However I work for my money did not come free, and I don't beg steal or borrow from them. We need to hold them all responsible. I lived in my parents home land for 10 +. What happens is that we are not the tourist whether at home or abroad. In the country and town where I was born many years ago. We had one shop to provide Caribbean food and it's still the same 60 years later. Sad sad sad. We screw ourselves over and over again at home and abroad. Sorry for the long things. Blessed. We need to raise our standards.. Money, power success got to her head.
got in
Its fundamental
I buy the economy size ftranks there and when I came home with it boiled four and I had a diaharrea
I went there couple times wasn’t really a fan but I did wanna go try their jerk, oh well, it’s sad
I tjink shes looking sympathy 😅 i don't believed her caused why makinh such money and not paying her workers? moreover she was over pricing people she got caught up with the crazy hype😅... and new that she was selling peopl spoid food...listening to her now what shes saying is dead also her eyes tells it all...
Ah Pinocchio sister Dat. JA judge gonna fix her. Her lawyer saying she's pregnant and has to go back for spotting. Judge seh she will be alright it's warner here remand until Feb 20th poor she.
Trust me I went in there for plantain and avocado and I saw the price!! I walked right over to no frills found them cheaper…and they didn’t even look that good all produce
Health Canada should look into this they can still charged her
This is sad. Both businesses had so much potential. She def admitted she wasnt good with money.
But look at you ? Typical trying to get rich in one month ? Sometimes looking at how Chinese do business is to get rich in time not in a few weeks.
Wait you were living the high life and didn't pay your employees? That is the height of wickedness. How you expect them to work for you and not get paid. Of course they're going to have an attitude. As for your customers, they too deserve better. You obviously had no plan for the future of your business and the money that you would make. I understand the issue dealing with customs, but why? Other stores bring in similar products and they are never in such poor condition as yours. Sorry for what you are going through. I really hope things turn around for you. You have extraordinary business sense, but you just need guidance and positive people around you.
If you don't pay customs, you cannot get the merchandise. The woman was a scammer like the men in jamaica scamming Canadians out of millions. I feel sorry for the lanlord whom she owes thousands in rent. The store is still unoccupied and will probably will be that way for a couple.e of years.
Can you imagine you not getting the rent for your place.
Welp! Overhyped places like this has never appealed to me. Imagine spending your hard earned cash on expired trash, from a business owner who's an even bigger trash!
Is not you close it you don't pay the rent so them lock you out and you is a scammer
The cran -wata…was $$. I can’t fully member but she was selling 1 for bout $3. No Frills 3min drive to Jane & Lawrence sells few days expired cran-wata 2/99 cents and they still taste good even weeks after expiration with proper storage.
Rotten cran wata is wiiiilld!
You ever hear of such 😂
@@GRIMZSTREAMINGNETWORKfun fact cranwata is 3 week shelf life. Ntn to do with this criminal, but as a business owner, big up 3billz mi likkle chargie, but the cranwata short fi true. Years, nooooooooo.
@@ieshagoodie big up yourself too fam 🔥‼️‼️
Is she related to the Bonnicks the Vlogger.. they look alike
Not once mi hear shi apologize to my people about the rotten expired food shi sell. Wolf wolf wolf the term bad mind is so cliche. Mi never buy yuh rotten food and mi naah tek yuh pill. Mental health issues is real but it’s an excuse fi yuh fi use. No frills til spills
It wasn't all that your presentation was a little bit too big for those shoes , I was just living down the Road from there I heard about their prices and never went in once, not when we got star fish just down the road from there selling the same things.😅😅😅😅
Well you only heard I’ve been so I can say it was all that
& starfish dose Not sell
prestige donut , tastee patty , Devon house ice cream , red stripe flavour beer I can go on and on 😂
It's not mental health cause her business failed cause of her. Sick of people crying mental health for cause they failed
Then she went from talking about driving her kids to school crying at a steering wheel to harming herself. I’m sorry I have a child and I don’t know life without my child so kind of thoughts
Dont believe her bout mental issues.
If the diagnosis is Scammer yeah she have that illness yes
@@stephneyjames2946 i agree with that
100k a week and service was lousy and not able to pay bills
The only actual lawful and honest Jamaican owned business that i fw is sunrise, and mainsha.
don’t forget starfish
Mainsha OG