Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew
From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Supermarket shakeup?
Message-ID: <1989Nov2.051633.20318@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 2 Nov 89 05:16:33 GMT
References: <1989Oct28.204533.16975@telly.on.ca> <1989Oct29.050306.1134@xenitec.on.ca> <1324@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
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In article <1324@bnr-rsc.UUCP> drago@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Drago Goricanec) writes:
>In article <1989Oct29.050306.1134@xenitec.on.ca> edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew) writes:
>>In Kitchener, the major national chains never were able to make any
>>inroads on the local "giants".  The two main chains in KW are Zehrs
>>and DutchBoy.  
>
>I thought that Zehrs was affiliated with Loblaws, if not owned by them.
>I believe the same is true of Mr. Grocer.

Like I said in my previous (orginal) posting on this topic, they _are_
now owned by the same group as Loblaws.  They couldn't fight them, so
they bought them.

I recall that they paid a very attractive price for the Zehrs chain,
but they received a guaranteed successful (major) market niche.  My
recollection is that this would have transacted in 1981, as I was
working on a contract (through my then employer) with Zehrs at the time
(they used to contract to locals), and with the takeover, the contract
evaporated as Loblaws only uses large national companies.  They like
taking local money, but seem to resist paying anything to locals if they
can avoid it.  Yes, the memory returns now.....

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