For how much it's constantly changing and evolving, Toronto really does stay the same in some key, distinctive ways — such as the propensity among its residents for forming long lineups.

Sometimes the lines are forretail productsortickets. Often they're for new (or rathernew-to-Canada)亚洲金博宝188官网. See also:free foodfrom pretty much anywhere. Amid the pandemic, we dealt withlong queues outside vaccination clinics... andalso still restaurants.

Today, it's a grocery store people are waiting in line foramid a stifling heat wave. But it's not just any grocery store, it's thefirst actual Toronto locationofT&T Supermarket.

Huge lineups for the opening of Toronto's first downtown T&T Supermarket at 297 College St. -@EatnMinglehttps://t.co/F4lY49cQo1#Torontopic.twitter.com/s9J2CWagTU

— blogTO (@blogTO)August 20, 2021

Opening today at 297 College Street near Spadina, the newest outpost of the Loblaw-owned Asian market chain replaces a once-controversialIndependent City Marketthat shut down this past November.

It also replaces (sort of)the iconic old T&T on Cherry Street, which was shuttered in 2019 and demolished last year to make way for amassive new development in the Port Lands.

About a half-dozen T&T Supermarketsalready exist in the GTA, all of them popular, but the new College Street store is the first and only to exist in downtown Toronto proper.

Fans of the brand are stoked to get their hands onunique, imported productsthat are hard to find anywhere else in Ontario — so stoked that they lined up down and around an entire city block on Friday morning to be one of the first customers inside.

The wait is over! T&T Supermarket has finally opened a downtown Toronto locationhttps://t.co/7JIz6ytAzH#Torontopic.twitter.com/WEOuXMJbwo

— blogTO (@blogTO)August 20, 2021

Some people watching from afar were happy to see footage of the lineup on Twitter, noting that "Toronto is back, baby!" and that "Torontonians will line up for everything."

我的意思是,duh.

Aside from pure excitement, some customers may have been in line to score prizes — the first 100 through the doorgot $10 gift cards, and anyone who spends more than $68 dollars today gets a free recycling bag.

Those who don't want to battle the crowds but still like a good discount will be happy to know that anyone who spends $88 dollars or more between now and Monday, Aug. 16, will also receive a $10 gift card.