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Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain of 135 full service supermarket stores mostly operating in the western provinces in Canada.It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway Inc., before being sold in 2013 to Canada's second-largest supermarket chain, Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company.
Supermarkets portal; San Francisco Bay Area portal; Companies portal; Food portal; List of supermarket chains in the United States; Safeway (Australia)—Sold to Woolworths Limited Australia in 1985. All locations renamed to Woolworths Supermarkets from 2008 to 2017. Safeway (Canada)—Sold to Sobeys in 2013. Continues to use the Safeway banner.
It is one of the biggest liquor stores in the city. In 2014, when Sobeys acquired Safeway they were forced to sell 23 locations by the federal Competition Bureau. Federated Co-operatives acquired the Safeway location on 8th Street in Saskatoon and transferred ownership to Saskatoon Co-op.
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. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Empire Company ...
IGA, Inc. is a franchised chain of grocery stores that operates in more than 41 countries. 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.
Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), operating as Co-op, is a co-operative federation providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. It was established in 1944 after a series of amalgamations of smaller cooperatives, starting in Saskatchewan, including the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wholesale Society and a fuel production and distribution co-op, the ...
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. [4]
Frank Hoyse Sobey, OC (May 24, 1902 – December 15, 1985) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who was the primary builder of the Sobeys chain of supermarkets. Life and career [ edit ] Born in the farming community of Lyons Brook , Nova Scotia , to John William (J.W.) Sobey and Eliza Sobey, he was three years old when his family moved ...