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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. [1]
Website. walmart.ca. Walmart Canada is a Canadian retail corporation and the Canadian branch of the U.S.-based multinational retail conglomerate Walmart. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company.
With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, [3][8][6] the company is the second-largest supermarket chain in North America after Kroger. [9][10] Albertsons ranked 53rd in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. [11]
The initial public offering price of Safeway stock was $226 in 1927 (equivalent to $3,964 in 2023). A five for one split in 1928 brought the price down to under $50 (equivalent to $887 in 2023).
The company, which has raised $350 million at a $4.3 billion valuation this year alone, is available in 15,000 different stores in the U.S. and Canada and in more than 4,000 cities.
Number of employees. 15,000 (2015) Parent. Jim Pattison Group. Website. pattisonfoodgroup.com. Pattison Food Group is an operator of supermarkets, based in Langley, British Columbia. It is owned by the Jim Pattison Group. Most stores are under the Save-On-Foods banner, which it launched in 1982.
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.
Website. realcanadiansuperstore.ca. Real Canadian Superstore is a chain of supermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies. Its name is often shortened to Superstore, or, less commonly, RCSS. Originating in Western Canada in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the banner expanded into Ontario in the early 2000s as Loblaw attempted ...