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Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), operating as Co-op, is a co-operative federation providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. [3] [4] It was established in 1944 after a series of amalgamations of smaller cooperatives, starting in Saskatchewan, including the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wholesale Society and a fuel production and distribution co-op, [1 ...
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 ...
The company was founded in 1927 in Moncton as a small Agricultural supply agricultural co-operative whose main idea was to provide a means for local farmers to promote their livestock. Today the group has 128 member co-operative enterprises across Atlantic Canada and Quebec. In 2015, Co-op Atlantic sold its grocery distribution operations to ...
The IGA operations in Atlantic Canada were sold to Loblaw Companies Limited (except for Edmundston, Shediac and Dieppe which runs as IGA-Co-op, previously acquired by Sobeys New Brunswick) and were restructured under its existing brands. The company-owned stores west of Quebec now mainly operate under the Sobeys banner.
In 1948 Red River Co-op opened their first food stores in Winnipeg. [5] In 1983, due to poor financial performance they ceased food store operations; they shifted focus on their gas bar operations. [5] In 2014, when Sobeys acquired Safeway, they were forced to sell 23 locations by the federal Competition Bureau.
Opened in the 1940s as a food store operated by the United Farmers of Alberta in Calgary and eventually changing hands to the Alberta Co-operative Wholesale Association (ACWA) in 1951, the Calgary Co-operative Association was founded to operate the Calgary food store independently of the ACWA, partially due to member dissatisfaction with how the ACWA managed the venture. [1]
Pattison Food Group is an operator of supermarkets, based in Langley, British Columbia. It is owned by the Jim Pattison Group . Most stores are under the Save-On-Foods banner, which it launched in 1982.
Federated Co-operatives acquired the Safeway location on 8th Street in Saskatoon and transferred ownership to Saskatoon Co-op. [6] In 2017, the Saskatchewan Rush of the National Lacrosse League reached a five-year sponsorship deal with Saskatoon Co-op, under which the team's venue is referred to as "Co-op Field at SaskTel Centre " during its games.