Path: utzoo!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: The Weston Empire
Message-ID: <128@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 03:28:25 GMT
References: <164@electro.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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In article <164@electro.UUCP> carlo@electro.UUCP (Carlo Sgro) writes:
>On the way in to work this morning, my wife and I got into a discussion
>about wealth, farmers, and grocery stores.  In this discussion, she stated that:
>	a) the Weston family owns most of the chain grocery stores in North
>		America, and
>	b) they own over 200 big-name companies.
>Now I can sort of believe the latter (although I am wary of the 200 figure) but
>I really don't buy the former.  Does anyone have any idea about the validity of
>these statements?  What companies do they own, anyway?


Loblaws Corp is enormous, but I thing that "most" is a bit overstated (as
might be "own" as well....).  They have by far the largest part of the
Canadian market (eg: Mr. Grocer and several of the larger Quebec chains).
They also own quite a number of big US chains - interestingly enough, most
of the employees of the US chains don't know it - unamerican you know.  Wish
I could remember the other major names I heard.
-- 
Chris Lewis
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