Westwood IGA

"Handy little supermarket if you need to pop in quickly to grab a few things, has a reasonably good range for the size, staff are always friendly and polite."

"The fruit isn't always fresh. But it's a god little store to quickly grab something you might need"

"The Philippines is a multilingual state with 184 living languages originating and spoken by various ethno-linguistic groups.[9] Many of these languages descend from a common Malayo-Polynesian language due to the Austronesian migration from Taiwan; however, there are languages brought by the indigenous people of the Philippines. The common Malayo-Polynesian language split into different languages and these languages borrowed words from other languages such as Hokkien, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Arabic. There was no single common language across every cultural group in the Philippine archipelago when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, although chroniclers of the time noted that the kings or chiefs of small polities normally spoke five languages. A Spanish exploratory mission under Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in 1521,[10][11] and Spanish colonization of the islands followed. The eventual capital established by Spain in the Philippines was Manila, situated in a Tagalog-speaking region, after the conquest of Manila from both the Muslim communities of Rajah Sulayman and Rajah Matanda and the Hindu-Buddhist Kingdom of Tondo ruled by Lakan Dula. Manila was made capital of the new colony both because of fears of raids from the Portuguese and the Dutch, and because of its strategic location.[12] The first dictionary of Tagalog, published as the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, was written by the Franciscan Pedro de San Buenaventura,[13] and published in 1613 by the "Father of Filipino Printing" Tomas Pinpin in Pila, Laguna. A latter book of the same name was written by Czech Jesuit missionary Paul Klein (known locally as Pablo Clain) at the beginning of the 18th century. Klein spoke Tagalog and used it actively in several of his books. He wrote a dictionary, which he later passed to Francisco Jansens and José Hernández.[14] Further compilation of his substantial work was prepared by Juan de Noceda and Pedro de Sanlúcar and published as Vocabulario de la lengua tagala in Manila in 1754 and then repeatedly[15] re-edited, with the latest edition being published in 2013 in Manila.[16] Spanish served in an official capacity as language of the government during the Spanish colonial period. During the American colonial period, English became an additional official language of the Philippines alongside Spanish; however, the number of speakers of Spanish steadily decreased.[17"

"Ordered groceries off Uber. Swapped out items that were out of stock with items that were NOWHERE NEAR best match. Staff member that answered my phone call was as helpful as he could be with limited english skills, and he was very good at working with me to get better items instead of the dismal "best match" they initially came up with. If it wasn't for him this would be a 1 star review. Please IGA, if you have to swap stock in an order, at least make it from the same category as the out of stock item; cooking condiments instead of custard is not an acceptable swap."