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The original mascot. The original mascot for Mac's was a cat named MacTavish (seen above), wearing a Tam o' shanter and a kilt, holding a jug of milk.Following Mac's acquisition by Couche-Tard in 1999, it was changed to the winking owl named Hibou, which was the mascot for Couche-Tard's convenience stores and gas stations in Quebec.
A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993 A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond , BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as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 ...
La Maisonnée, a chain of conveniences stores in Quebec sold in 1988 to the Toronto-based Silcorp Ltd. [5] In addition, Steinbergs had partial ownership of: Price Club, a popular American wholesale club store. Steinberg was the exclusive operator in Canada of the chain starting in 1985, and also owned a 50% stake in the company.
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
One store was transferred to The Bay and four others were going to be sold or closed. [6] The transaction was met with strong opposition from the New York-based F. W. Woolworth Company (owner of the Woolco stores in Canada) which also wanted to purchase the chain.
IGA store (left) on Dundas Street in Toronto, September 1957. IGA is a group of independent grocers in Canada supplied by Sobeys , which franchises the name from IGA, Inc . Acquired by Sobeys as part of its purchase of the Oshawa Group Ltd., it now operates primarily in Quebec .
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
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