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The chain operates by pushing higher volumes on a limited selection of products than Metro stores, allowing it to compete price-wise with other grocery stores. There were 117 locations in Ontario. 36 were franchise stores until Metro Inc. purchased all stores back by the end of 2008. Some Food Basics feature a pharmacy known as Food Basics ...
Food Basics was a no-frills discount supermarket chain owned and operated by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in the northeastern United States.. Food Basics carried major national brands, as well as A&P's portfolio of private labels, [1] including America's Choice, A&P's flagship private label, Food Basics and Home Basics, Live Better, and Green Way.
Food Barn (Manitoba) Food City; Food for Less (Calgary) Galati Brothers; Garden Market IGA; Gordons; Hudson's Bay Company Grocery (Winnipeg) Kauffmans (Winnipeg) Kmart Canada; Knechtel Foods; Knob Hill Farms; Lady York; Loeb; Lofood; Marché Frais; Miracle Food Mart; Montemurro (North-Western Quebec and North-Eastern Ontario) Mr. Grocer
The acquisition of A&P Canada was completed on August 15, 2005, with Metro having a network in Quebec and Ontario of 573 full-service and discount food supermarkets, and 256 pharmacies. [12] On August 7, 2008, Metro announced that it would invest $200 million consolidating the company's conventional food stores under the Metro banner. [13]
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.
A & P supermarket, Snowdon, Montreal, Quebec, 1941 View of a typical A&P store prior to Metro conversion, Belleville, Ontario, July 2007. In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec. [1] A&P Canada left the Quebec market in 1984, and in 1985 acquired Dominion Stores in
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 ...
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. [1] From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and, until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind).