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A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993 A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond , BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as far as Winnipeg , Manitoba by 2000, but its subsequent ...
La Maisonnée, a chain of conveniences stores in Quebec sold in 1988 to the Toronto-based Silcorp Ltd. [5] In addition, Steinbergs had partial ownership of: Price Club, a popular American wholesale club store. Steinberg was the exclusive operator in Canada of the chain starting in 1985, and also owned a 50% stake in the company.
One store was transferred to The Bay and four others were going to be sold or closed. [6] The transaction was met with strong opposition from the New York-based F. W. Woolworth Company (owner of the Woolco stores in Canada) which also wanted to purchase the chain.
George's Independent City Market in 3080 Yonge Street, Toronto. Your Independent Grocer (YIG), known colloquially as "Independent" or "Yours" is a supermarket chain in Canada with more than 100 locations. It has stores in every province and territory except Manitoba, Nunavut, and Quebec.
The stores carry a variety of goods, but the vast majority of space is devoted to groceries, and about a third of each store is set aside for electronics, housewares, and clothing. Items in the latter two categories are mainly from Loblaw's private labels, such as President's Choice, Life at Home, No Name, or Joe Fresh.
Miracle Food Mart was a supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada, owned by Steinberg's, a Quebec-based retailer in the 1970s and 1980s.. Steinberg purchased the Canadian division of Grand Union, with 38 stores, in June 1959 to make its entrance into Ontario.
In 1978, Oshawa Group sold the 50% interest it had acquired. [2] In 1988, revenues topped $1 billion. [1] Consumers Distributing purchased the 42-store Cardinal Distributors catalogue chain from Steinberg Inc. and the 70-store American chain Consumers from May Department Stores, bringing its total store count to approximately 400 in 1981. [3]
Newspaper Prov. City/region Owner [1] Circulation (weekly total, 2013) [2] Frequency Language Notes National Post: Nat'l National Postmedia: 982,555 Tue–Sat