It never occured to me to look for panettone at Winners. I would want a small one though. The Italian grocer usually carries a few small ones but last Christmas they only had big ones and I usually only want enough for one or two desserts - one after Christmas dinner and the other on NYE.
panettone freezes well, if you have the space, and it makes delicious French toast!
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And I happen to have some maple syrup left in the fridge! Brilliant! Thanks 
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The panettone are usually 1 lb or 1 kg at Winners, and they’re sometimes deluxe brands in a tin, so manufacturers suggested retail price might be $80, and Winners is selling them for $40, then they might get marked down to $15 around Dec 23rd.
They also have so quirky, weird or lesser known brands of panettone, sometimes quirky flavours. Sometimes not made in Italy or North America.
I enjoy looking at the labels to see where things are made. There were some cookies in a tin that looked a little like a Fortnum + Mason tin yesterday. I checked the label, and they were made in Indonesia. 
I like Loison brand, and I go out of my way to find that brand at Italian stores, and I don’t like rind or citron, so I haven’t bought any panettone at Winners yet! I have admired the packaging on the saffron Dolce and Gabbana panettone that was at Winners a couple years ago.
Some Italian stores sell personal -sized panettone and colomba when they’re in season, that are around 85 -100 grams. You end up paying a lot for the packaging. A small one might be $5 or $10, when a whole kg panettone made by the same brand is $30.
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I’ve never been able to find Italian panettone in the US Marshall’s /HomeGoods. Only South American which I understood to be lower quality.
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I think the selection varies a lot, from store to store and region to region.
Marshall’s is tripleted at strip plazas with Homesense and Winners in Canada, and all three use the same loyalty program.
In London Ontario and in Toronto, all 3 brands tend to stock the same brands of panettone or other European imports, but that stock changes frequently.
There is a high end Italian fruit jelly candy being stocked at the stores now, same brand as is stocked in the Italian cafe I visit in Toronto.
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Produce Depot? Still there. I don’t think there’s a lot else at South Keys, except Bulk Barn.
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