Dominion Stores (Ontario)
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Dominion Stores Ltd. (which may or may not continue to exist as a legal entity) is presently an operator of supermarkets in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. Once a national chain owned by media mogul Conrad Black's Argus Corporation, it is now part of Metro Inc., with its stores outside Ontario having been sold to third parties.
The remnants of Dominion Stores had been acquired by A&P Canada from Argus in the late 1980s. A&P subsequently rebranded all its stores in the Greater Toronto Area as Dominion stores, while Dominion locations elsewhere in Ontario took the A&P name. Metro acquired A&P Canada from A&P effective August 15, 2005, but has not indicated its own branding plans.
The fate of the Dominion locations outside Ontario is as follows:
- Newfoundland and Labrador: Loblaws operates a chain under the Dominion banner; see Dominion Stores (Newfoundland and Labrador).
- New Brunswick: Shortly after the A&P acquisition, these stores were sold to Food Group Inc., which operated them under the Village banner until they themselves were sold to Loblaws (see Atlantic Superstore) in 1995.
- Nova Scotia: These locations were sold to IGA, but Loblaws took over IGA's Atlantic Canada locations as well in 1999.
- Western Canada: Dominion stores in these provinces were closed, leaving many suburban shopping malls scrambling to fill large, now-vacant sections. According to some, this event, coupled with the subsequent collapse of several department store chains, sparked a wave of mall renovations in many parts of the country.
Dominion's distribution centres are located in Etobicoke and Mississauga.
Rivals
- Loblaws
- Costco
- Price Chopper - owned by Sobeys
- Sobeys
- IGA
See also
External links
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