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The Save-On-Foods and rooftop parking structure was repaired, and the store operated until 2012. The complex was demolished in 2013 as part of a new development with a 35-story tower comprising condominium units, offices, and ground floor retail. The store reopened in a new space approximately half its previous size in late 2015 in this ...
PriceSmart Foods is a chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Overwaitea Food Group , which is owned by the Jim Pattison Group . PriceSmart shares the same brands and rewards card system as other Overwaitea chains, including Save-On-Foods .
The Save-On-Foods brand was launched in British Columbia in 1982 by Overwaitea Foods, which had been founded in 1915 and was later purchased by Jimmy Pattison in 1968. Most Overwaitea branded stores were gradually converted to Save-On-Foods stores beginning in the 1980s, with the last two remaining Overwaitea stores switching in 2018.
The stores purchased were under the Safeway, Thrifty Foods and Sobeys banners and all were converted to become Save-On-Foods stores. [1] It was also announced that Overwaitea would convert 11 PriceSmart Foods locations to the Save-On-Foods brand. [2] OFG employed over 15,000 team members, as of August 2015.
A fifth location, the first outside Vancouver, was opened in a converted Cooper's Foods store in Kelowna also in 2012. A sixth location was opened in uptown Calgary in 2019. Early in its history, the store made news for the price and luxury of some of its goods, notably an imported loaf of Poilane bread which it sold for $100.
Metropolis at Metrotown (commonly referred to as Metrotown) is a three-storey shopping mall complex in the Metrotown area of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1986, it is the largest mall in British Columbia and the third-largest in Canada , behind Alberta's West Edmonton Mall and Ontario's Square One Shopping Centre , with 27 ...
Overwaitea Foods was a regional chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. On March 8, 1915, Robert C. Kidd purchased a store at 746 Columbia Street in New Westminster, British Columbia. He developed several innovative merchandising techniques to attract customers, including odd-penny pricing and selling 18 ounces of tea for the ...
Bosa Properties purchased the mall in 2002 and had major plans to expand and redevelop the property. [5]In March 2010, Semiahmoo Shopping Centre went through a much-needed upgrade to the interior of the mall.