Family owned and operated since 1929.

david askew

David Askew was born in Salmon Arm, as was his father Lloyd before him. His first job with Askew’s was bagging potatoes at one tenth of a cent per pound. The 10 cents he earned for bagging 10 ten pound bags would buy a bottle of orange crush and 2 penny caramels. He was well satisfied with the fruits of his labour. David worked as a Chemical Engineer with DuPont of Canada, as Career Counsellor with the University of Toronto and Manager with the Government of BC before assuming the role of President and General Manager of Askew’s in 2007. His big accomplishment at Askew’s has been leading design and construction of Askew’s Uptown. This development has won numerous awards and enjoys considerable success as a place to shop and socialize.

David holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from UBC, and a Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of Toronto. He plans to continue in his leadership role working with Askew’s management to address the challenges of the changing business world, technology and the changing needs of Askew’s.

Customers want to reduce the time taken to shop and prepare healthy meals for their families. Prepared foods, delivery, on-line shopping and the advent of driverless vehicle (reducing the cost of delivery) are some of the things that are bringing change to the grocery business. Nonetheless David has every confidence that Askew’s will be able to address these challenges and to continue to be the grocery store of choice in the communities we serve.   
 
In addition to leading Askew’s, one of David’s objectives is to learn Spanish so he can get more out of future travel to Spain, Mexico and other Spanish speaking countries in Central and South America. David is an avid tennis player and plans to take full advantage of the new indoor facility which is currently under construction with completion planned for the spring of 2019.