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Big V - Pharmacy; BP Canada — Convenience store; Bi-Way — discount clothing store chain; Blockbuster Video — Canadian unit of US-based video rental shop chain; The Book Room — At the time of its closing in 2008, it was the oldest bookstore in Canada. Bed Bath &- Beyond Canada — Bath & furniture store; Buy Buy Baby Canada — Baby store
The first No Frills store was a converted Loblaws outlet slated for closure. The store opened on July 5, 1978, in East York, Toronto. While it offered a very limited range of goods and basic customer service, the store promoted discount prices. The opening of the prototype outlet coincided with a period of rising inflation rates and consumer ...
In 1974, Lord's Supervalue Pharmacies 26 stores in Atlantic Canada joined the Shoppers Drug Mart family. In 1986 Shoppers Drug Mart bought Super X Drugstores, an Ontario-area chain of 72 stores. In 1986, Shoppers Drug Mart also purchased the J.W. Crooks Pharmacy stores in Thunder Bay Ontario (Mayor James White Crooks). In 1992, the company ...
Polymer Corporation – sold to NOVA Corp and then Bayer AG. Radio Shack (Canadian division) – electronics store. Seagram – spirits and wine. Target Canada – closed because of a $2.1 billion loss for Target Corporation. Terra Transport. Towers Department Stores – department store chain; acquired by Zellers.
Steinberg's began as a grocery store founded in 1917 in Montreal by Jewish-Hungarian immigrant, Ida Steinberg. Her five sons, led by Sam Steinberg, grew the company from a tiny storefront on St. Lawrence Boulevard into the most popular and largest supermarket chain in Quebec. [1] It was the first to create the "supermarket" concept in Quebec ...
Honest Ed's. Honest Ed's was a landmark discount store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was named for its proprietor, Ed Mirvish, who opened the store in 1948 and oversaw its operations for almost 60 years until his death in 2007. The store continued to operate until it permanently closed on December 31, 2016.
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec, with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw Companies Limited and Sobeys . Super C is the discount supermarket division operated in Quebec with ...
Ontario Today is a Canadian talk radio program on CBC Radio One. The program is broadcast live from the studios of CBO-FM in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre weekdays, and it is carried on all CBC Radio One transmitters in Ontario. The program generally consists of news reports for the first half-hour, followed by a half-hour call-in segment on ...