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The Newfoundland locations are the only ones to continue under the Dominion banner; see Dominion Stores. New Brunswick : Shortly after the A&P acquisition, these stores were sold to Food Group Inc., which operated them under the Village banner until Food Group was sold to Loblaw and merged into its Atlantic Superstore unit in 1995.
49th Parallel Grocery; A&P; Best for Less; The Barn Fruit Markets; Canadian Tire (short-lived rollout) Commisso's Food Markets; Cooper's Foods; Darrigo's; DiPietro's; Dominion Stores; Dutch Boy; Eatons Supermarket (Winnipeg) Econo-Mart; Food Barn (Manitoba) Food City; Food for Less (Calgary) Galati Brothers; Garden Market IGA; Gordons; Hudson's ...
A & P supermarket, Snowdon, Montreal, Quebec, 1941 View of a typical A&P store prior to Metro conversion, Belleville, Ontario, July 2007. In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec. [1] A&P Canada left the Quebec market in 1984, and in 1985 acquired Dominion Stores in
In 1976, Dominion Stores announced a joint venture with Newfoundland conglomerate Baine, Johnston & Co., to operate the latter's wholesale division, which was renamed Donovans Wholesale Ltd. [2] Eight years later, in 1984, the companies agreed to combine their retail and wholesale food operations under local management, adding the 13 Dominion ...
Mr. Grocer (Ontario) – rebranded Dominion stores and sold by A&P Canada to National Grocers; name later phased out; Power (Ontario) – began as one store in Toronto in 1904 by Samuel and Sarah Weinstein and sold to Loblaws in 1953 and re-branded in 1972; [36] SaveEasy (Atlantic Canada) - rebranded as Your Independent Grocer
In the early 21st century, Loblaw brought the Superstore banner to Ontario as a response to the introduction of large grocery sections in most Canadian Wal-Mart stores and other department stores, and as a pre-emptive strike against any plans by Wal-Mart to bring its "Supercenter" format to Canada. Originally, Ontario stores were co-branded ...
Westmount Mall's first phase opened initially in 1971 with 15 stores, including a Dominion grocery store as the anchor. In 1973, the mall expanded, adding about 50 additional retailers, with Horizon as the main anchor. It was at that time the largest mall in Southwestern Ontario. In 1978, Horizon was closed and converted into an Eaton's ...
A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993 A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond , BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as far as Winnipeg , Manitoba by 2000, but its subsequent ...