Welcome to Glenburnie Grocery
Glenburnie Grocery is a family-run grocery store in Kingston, Ontario, committed to providing our customers with quality products, fresh local produce, and knowledgeable, friendly service.
At Our Store
Glenburnie Grocery is located at 2454 Perth Road in Glenburnie, Ontario. We proudly offer a broad range of high quality brands, specialty products and locally-sourced produce.
Our store also includes a bakery, where we bake fresh bread and other goodies daily, as well as a butcher shop, a deli, and we serve hot lunches Monday through Friday.
“At Glenburnie Grocery, we pride ourselves on good old fashioned customer service, and on the high quality of the local produce, meats, cheeses and specialty foods we provide our valued customers.”
– Mark Rickards, Owner
Growing Up at Glenburnie Grocery
As a rambunctious and curious young boy, Glenburnie Grocery owner Mark Rickards worked alongside his family at their country grocery store. From filling the pop cooler and carrying out groceries, to shadowing his father and eventually sharing in future business decisions with him, he’s played a role for as long as he can remember.
As he grew, he realized a deep passion to maintain Glenburnie Grocery’s strong community presence, promoting the wares of local farmers and making sure good quality food is available to the community.
His dedication to this goal led to 3 store expansions and an ever growing list of local suppliers and relationships.
History repeating itself?
Now, Mark’s sons, Gus and Reed Rickards, can be seen frequently at the store, experiencing childhood in the business and community he did, spreading their own roots.
In the future they may discover they share their father’s passion for Glenburnie Grocery, but regardless, the store will always be a place that feels like home, as it is for the many that have frequented if for generations.
As he grew, he realized a deep passion to maintain Glenburnie Grocery’s strong community presence, promoting the wares of local farmers and making sure good quality food is available to the community.
His dedication to this goal led to 3 store expansions and an ever growing list of local suppliers and relationships.
Our History
Glenburnie Grocery is located in Glenburnie Ontario at the crossroads of Unity Road and Perth Road known formerly as ‘Shannon’s Corners’. Through its history, the location has always been a hub of community and business activity, and continues to have the same family roots.
Arliss Rickards can attest that when she married Herb and became mother to 3 young children, she never imagined they would later be balancing the demands of family and running their own business, just as her ancestors had.
If you ask her today, she’ll smile and tell you she would not have had it any other way.
Putting Down Roots: Our Story
In 1967 Herb Rickards left his secure job as a surveyor with the Ministry of Transportation to pursue an entrepreneurial dream and opened Glenburnie Grocery.
He and his wife Arliss worked side by side to build the business and as their 3 children, Andrea, Mark and Lisa, were 5, 4, and 3 years old at the time, they grew up working at the store among community members and friends.
Growing & Thriving
When Mark was 28 years old he purchased the store from his parents with a plan to continue to further it’s community roots.
Since that time he has expanded 3 times turning Glenburnie Grocery into a full scale competitive marketplace that features locally sourced, quality products and can boast the fine wares of it’s own bakery and butcher shop.
All the while, he has preserved Glenburnie Grocery’s tradition of ‘good old fashioned country service’; staff carry out your groceries, and the morning coffee drinkers still convene and chat.
It is Mark’s uncompromising business values, to good service and good quality local products and relationships, that has cemented Glenburnie Grocery’s place in the community.
Meet The Glenburnie Grocery Team!
Glenburnie Grocery wouldn’t be where it is today without our valued, hardworking staff. These are the friendly faces you’ll see when you pay a visit to our store!