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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.
Sobeys Inc. [4] is a national supermarket chain in Canada with over 1,500 stores operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than C$25.1 billion [3] in the fiscal 2019 operating year.
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 .
September 2007 Sobeys buys Thrifty Foods for $256.6 million. 2011 Sobeys purchases 236 retail gas locations for $214.9 million in Québec and Atlantic Canada. [5] June 2013 Empire buys all of Safeway Canada's stores for $5.8 billion; September 2018 Empire announces intent to buy Farm Boy stores in an $800 million deal. [6]
Many stores have a pharmacy, and some locations provide other services, including nutrition tours and health clinics, as well as other features such as Starbucks Coffee (all former Safeway locations) or Tim Hortons (some former Sobeys locations) kiosks, juice bars, and departments featuring BC wines. Today, Save-On-Foods operates 177 stores ...
Thrifty Foods was founded by Alex Campbell and Ernie Skinner in 1977 when the first store was opened in Victoria's Fairfield neighbourhood. As of June 2018, the chain operates 25 stores, with 2 more under construction on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. [citation needed] It is the largest supermarket chain on Vancouver Island.
The Sobeys-owned Green Gables chain was changed over to Needs by the late 1990s as part of a final effort to consolidate the region's up-scale convenience store market. During the early 2000s, Sobeys experimented with converting several Needs stores to the Sobeys Express brand on a limited trial basis.
Frank Hoyse Sobey, [1] OC (May 24, 1902 – December 15, 1985) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who was the primary builder of the Sobeys chain of supermarkets. Life and career [ edit ]