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This is a list of supermarket chains in Canada. ... Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix; SuperValu; ... (downsized in 2024 to one store location plus one food service ...
In 1974, Lord's Supervalue Pharmacies 26 stores in Atlantic Canada joined the Shoppers Drug Mart family. In 1986 Shoppers Drug Mart bought Super X Drugstores, an Ontario-area chain of 72 stores. In 1986, Shoppers Drug Mart also purchased the J.W. Crooks Pharmacy stores in Thunder Bay Ontario (Mayor James White Crooks). In 1992, the company ...
Canadian pharmacist Murray Koffler was an investor in the G.E.M. chain, bringing the first G.E.M. store to Toronto in 1959. He eventually subleased the G.E.M. drug department in several Toronto area stores. Following the G.E.M. discount model, Koffler later opened one of the first "big box" store chains, Shoppers Drug Mart. [1] [failed ...
Medi Mart (sold to Walgreens in 1980s) Osco Drug (freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006) Pay 'n Save (acquired by Thirfty Corp. in 1988, rebranded as PayLess Drug) PayLess Drug Stores (purchased by Rite Aid in 1996) Peoples Drug (acquired by CVS in 1990; rebranded in 1994) Perry Drug Stores (acquired by Rite Aid in 1995)
Target Canada opened its first store in March 2013, and by January 2015 was operating 133 locations throughout Canada. Its main competition included Walmart Canada, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Canadian Tire.
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the number of stores.
Shoppers Drug Mart. On July 15, 2013, Loblaw announced that it would acquire Canada's largest pharmacy chain, Shoppers Drug Mart (branded "Pharmaprix" in the Province of Quebec), for CA$12.4 billion in a cash and stock deal. Galen G. Weston indicated the possibility for store brands from the two chains to appear in each other's stores following ...
In 1921, Leon Koffler began Koffler Drug Stores. In 1941, his son Murray Koffler inherited two drug stores, called "Koffler's Drugs"; by 1962, Koffler's had grown to a chain of 17 pharmacies, which Murray then renamed "Shoppers Drug Mart" in the 1970s. During the 1970s, Koffler visited Israel; following this visit, he decided to set up a chain ...