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Food Basics was created by A&P Canada to compete with the successful No Frills warehouse-style supermarket operated by Loblaw Companies.It became part of the Metro group [2] when A&P Canada was sold to Metro for $1.7 billion in 2005.
Beginning a few months after the acquisition, and continuing into the 1990s, A&P rebranded all of its stores in the Greater Toronto Area as Dominion stores, absorbing Miracle Food Mart, while Dominion locations elsewhere in Ontario took the A&P or Food Basics name. [7]
In 1999, it acquired the Barn Markets, based in Hamilton, Ontario, and opened its first discount grocery store, Food Basics. In 2005, A&P Canada Co. operated 135 stores under the banners of: A&P, Dominion and Ultra Food & Drug, in addition to The Barn Markets and Food Basics. It employed over 34,000 employees in Ontario. [1]
Metro now holds the second largest market share in the food distribution and retailing business in Quebec and Ontario with nearly $11 billion in sales and more than 65,000 employees. Its stores operate under the banners Metro, Metro Plus, Super C, Food Basics, Marché Ami, Les 5 Saisons and Marché Adonis. [14]
Food Basics was a no-frills discount supermarket chain owned and operated by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in the northeastern United States.. Food Basics carried major national brands, as well as A&P's portfolio of private labels, [1] including America's Choice, A&P's flagship private label, Food Basics and Home Basics, Live Better, and Green Way.
FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. [2] It was launched in March 2010. [3] As of September 2024, there were over 125 FreshCo stores. In December 2017, Sobeys Inc. announced plans to re-brand up to 64 stores in western Canada currently under the Safeway and Sobeys names into the FreshCo banner.
A No Frills store in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto No Frills interior. The first No Frills store was a converted Loblaws outlet slated for closure. The store opened on July 5, 1978, in East York, Toronto. While it offered a very limited range of goods and basic customer service, the store promoted discount prices.
Empire operates . Lawtons; Needs Convenience; Farm Boy; Foodland some CO-OP stores in Atlantic Canada; FreshCo; IGA / IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, some parts of Atlantic Canada formerly CO-OP Atlantic and Saskatchewan only