33 replies to this topic

[Szeven]

QF is has always been privately owned, unless something changed recently.

[Mike K.]

Quality Foods is now partnered with Pattison but not necessarily a rebranded Save-Ons.

[VicHockeyFan]

QF is has always been privately owned, unless something changed recently.

Yes, they fairly recently received a large investment by Pattison: http://www.campbellr.../140196343.html

[manuel]

Nothing could ever make me go to Oxford Foods! NO sarcasm!!!!!

The cans of tuna and salmon are half the price of Thrifty's. fresh meat is a week past best before, not just a day.

[Mike K.]

Wholesale Club in Esquimalt is likely the cheapest grocery store in the entire city and carries the same products that Superstore does. I don't know why more people don't shop there.

[Nanaimoite]

Quality Foods is NOT owned by the Overwaitea food group, the majority ownership is here on the Island, great guys too

[sdwright.vic]

^They have partnered with Jimmy Patterson... they have never said how much, just that they will maintain ownership. Which means he could own as much as 49%.

[Nanaimoite]

He could, but that still doesn't make you the majority owner ;-)

[Bernard]

Hmmmm, subject to regulatory approval.

I wonder what percentage of Western Canada business they already have.

It won't be good for consumer prices here in Victoria, I'd think. But we are but a blip.

We have a diverse grocery store market in BC and the purchase of Safeway by Sobey's will not change much. We have around 600 to 700 stores that sell the full gamut of groceries in BC.

Before the purchase of Thrifty's, Sobey's had virtually no presence in BC - the IGAs in BC were not part of the deal when Sobey's bought them.

Currently Sobey's has 32 stores in BC now
29 Thrifty's
3 Sobey's
Buying safeway gives them 76 more locations in BC for a total of 108 making them the #2 retailer in BC but still with no more than 1/6th of the market

In BC we have significant competition with:
the Pattison group in BC has 124 stores
51 Save-On-Foods
16 PriceSmart Foods
15 Cooper's Foods
15 Buy Low Foods
13 Overwaitea Stores
9 Nester Markets
5 Urbanfare

Loblaws in BC has 96 locations
27 Real Canadian Superstores
19 Supre-Valu
18 Extra Foods
13 No Frills
9 Wholesale Clubs
7 T&T Supermarkets
3 Your Independent Grocers

IGA Marketplace, owned by HY Louie) has 29 locations
Costco has 13 locations in BC
WalMart has 10 Supercentres in BC
AG Foods has 17 locations under various names in the interior
Quality Foods has 11 locations
Fairway has 10 locations
Country Grocer has 7 locations
Choices Markets had 7 locations
Whole Foods has 5 locations
Askews has 4 locations in the Shuswap

With Fairways, Country Grocer and Quality Foods still island owned, that is a significant amount of the Island Market in local hands

[29er Radio]

Bernard, nice stats sir.

[Bernard]

Bernard, nice stats sir.

thanks

[Bingo]

Radio-Canada hidden-camera investigation reveals stores breaking rules to extend shelf life of meats

 

If you trust the packaging date listed on the meat or poultry you buy at the grocery store, you could be fooled.

Some retailers change the labels of meat and poultry packages in order to convince consumers their products

are fresher than they actually are, a Radio-Canada hidden-camera investigation has found.

One butcher in Quebec, who works at an IGA grocery store, spoke to Radio-Canada on the condition he was granted anonymity.

Sobeys, the owner of the IGA brand in Quebec, refused to comment on the results of Radio-Canada’s laboratory tests.

Sobeys said it uses the services of a private company to inspect its facilities and undergoes ministry inspections.

As for the practice of repacking meats to extend their shelf life, Sobeys condemns it.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...2851437?cmp=rss

 

[sebberry]

Can't be much worse than some of the expiry dates on meat when it was Safeway - I found chicken with best-by dates 9 days out.... 

[jonny]

Many times I've bought chicken that has, for example, an expiry date of November 30th, but when I go to use it on November 25th or 26th it's already rancid.

 

Nowadays I just portion and freeze unless I know I'm going to use it within a day or two.

 

A friend of mine bought some on sale canned goods once that he found out when he got home had expired four years prior...