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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 ...
In 1985, with nine Real Canadian Superstores across Western Canada, Loblaw tried to duplicate their success in Eastern Canada with the opening of its first combination store at Pickering, Ontario. Eventually, 13 superstores, four times the size of a conventional supermarket with about a third of the space devoted to general merchandise, were ...
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 ...
The first Real Canadian Superstore location opened in March 1979 in a former Loblaws location in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan under the name SuperValu. Numerous other SuperValu locations opened across Western Canada before most gradually expanded into Superstore sites; the SuperValu name is still in use in British Columbia.
Founded in British Columbia in 1951 by Loblaw Companies Limited as a chain of independently-owned supermarkets supplied by Loblaws' wholesale subsidiary, Kelly Douglas & Company. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, many SuperValu stores were created from former Loblaws corporate stores as the banner expanded across western Canada.
George Weston Limited, often referred to as Weston or Weston's, is a Canadian holding company.Founded by George Weston in 1882, the company today consists of the Choice Properties real estate investment trust and Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest supermarket retailer, in which it maintains a controlling interest.
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.
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.