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In July 2009, Loblaw extended its presence in the ethnic retail market with its announced purchase of T&T Supermarket Inc., Canada's largest chain of Asian food stores, for some CA$225 million – 191 million in cash and the rest in preferred shares. Founded in 1993, the 17-store chain, with outlets in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario ...
Super Centre was a hyper supermarket banner used by Loblaws during the 1990s in Ontario. Some stores were an expansion from the Super-Valu banner. These stores were about 60,000 to 120,000 square feet (5,600–11,100 m 2) in size on average, larger than standard supermarkets, sold a wider selection of merchandise (including department store merchandise, such as clothing), and contained in ...
Dominion Stores, commonly referred to as simply Dominion, is the primary brand name of the major-market supermarkets of Loblaw Companies Limited in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, currently all located on the island of Newfoundland.
IGA / IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, some parts of Atlantic Canada formerly CO-OP Atlantic and Saskatchewan only; Marché Bonichoix; Marché Tradition; Rachelle-Béry; Safeway; Sobeys; Thrifty Foods; Pete's Frootique; Longo's (Sobeys has purchased 51% of Longo's, with an option to buy the remaining shares within the next 10 years ...
It is owned by George Weston Limited through Loblaw Companies Limited, and operates under the Atlantic Wholesalers division of Loblaws. Its name is often shortened to Superstore, or, less commonly, RASS. The stores range in from 45,000 to over 120,000 square feet (4,000 to over 10,000 m 2) in size.
Maxi is a discount grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1984 by Provigo , it is a division of Loblaw Companies [ 1 ] and the largest of Loblaws' Quebec supermarket chains. Maxi is the Quebec equivalent of No Frills , a chain of franchised discount grocery stores outside Quebec, except that Maxi stores are owned by the company.
By the mid 1980s, with a 14 percent share of the $35 billion supermarket business in Canada and 41 consecutive quarters of higher earnings, Loblaw Companies had gone "from a sorry loser without a future into Canada's largest and perhaps most thriving food distributor". [43] Nevertheless, Loblaw still had occasion to stumble, at times badly.
Originally, Ontario stores were co-branded with the local Loblaw banner (i.e., "Loblaws - The Real Canadian Superstore"), but most shortened their name to reduce confusion and allow separate weekly specials for each chain. New Ontario locations began to open under the name Loblaw Superstore in late 2007.