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In 1999, Rona opened a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (ca. 6 ha), doubling its warehousing capacity. In the year 2000, Rona acquired Ontario-based Cashway Building Centres, with 66 stores. In the same year, Rona opened its online store on the rona.ca website. In 2001, Rona acquired 51 Revy Home and ...
The first store outside the United States was in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [4] According to its website, Lowe's has operated/serviced more than 2,355 locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico alone, [5] although the Mexican stores were closed in the late 2010s.
In September 2003, Rona Inc. acquired Réno-Dépôt; following the merger, the Ontario-based Building Box stores were re-branded as Rona Home & Garden. [4] The purchase was part of a plan to establish more "big box" stores to accompany its smaller specialty outlets and compete with the U.S.-based chain The Home Depot. [5]
A former Lowe's location in Windsor, Ontario, converted to Rona+. Lowe's opened its first three stores in Canada on December 10, 2007, in Hamilton, Brampton, and Brantford. On February 1, 2008, they opened three more stores in Toronto, East Gwillimbury, and a second store in Brampton, as well as a new location in Maple (Vaughan). [67]
Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016; A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the number of stores.
Gordon's (Ontario) Louis Stores (Oakland, California) OK Economy (Western Canada, Ontario) 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 ...
Eastgate Square opened in 1973 with Woolco, Eaton's, and Robinson's as its anchors.. One of the mall's busiest anchor stores, Walmart (formerly Woolco), had announced it was relocating to a site roughly 2 kilometres away [2] to 510 Centennial Parkway North at corner of the QEW/South Service Road junction.