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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]
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.
Kam Man Food (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts) – small Asian American supermarket chain; Lion Food (Northern California) – Vietnamese-Chinese supermarket; Lotte Plaza – Korean-American supermarket (Maryland, Virginia) Marukai – Japanese American supermarket in CA and HI, also owns Tokyo Central.
IGA, Inc. is an international chain of grocery stores. Unlike chain stores IGA franchises are independently owned and operated. Many of these stores operate in small-town markets and belong to families that manage them. IGA was founded in the United States as the Independent Grocers Alliance in 1926.
FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. [2] It was launched in March 2010. [3] As of September 2023, there were 100 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.
"In essence, this money has been stolen from all of us for all these years," said an 84-year-old woman whose late husband's Social Security benefits were slashed. "It's not fair."
Founded in 1957 as Oshawa Wholesale Limited, the company grew from expansion in the 1960s to 1980s.It was renamed the Oshawa Group Limited in 1971. The company roots date back further to 1914 by founders Max Wolfe (1893–1987) and Maurice Wolfe, who started the Ontario Produce Company and acquired Oshawa Wholesale in 1949 and later gave rise to Oshawa Group.
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 .