Save-On-Foods


Save-On-Foods is a chain of supermarkets located across Western Canada.
Stores carry both standard brand names and private label brands, such as Western Family. Many stores have pharmacies, and some locations provide other services, including nutrition tours and health clinics, as well as other features such as Starbucks Coffee kiosks, juice bars, and departments featuring BC wines. Today, Save-On-Foods operates 177 stores across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Yukon Territory.

History

Many Save-On-Foods stores used to operate under the Overwaitea brand, which was founded in 1915. It was purchased by Pattison in 1968. Most Overwaitea stores were gradually converted to Save-On-Foods stores during the expansion and renovation of the overall chain in the 1990s and 2000s. Some other store names still operating as separate brands under the Overwaitea Food Group include Urban Fare, PriceSmart Foods and Bulkley Valley Wholesale.
The first Save-On-Foods store in Alberta opened in 1990, at Mayfield Common in Edmonton. The store's loyalty card was launched in May 1992 as the Save-On-More card. It has been re-branded as More Rewards. It is accepted at all of the chain's stores and at all Petro-Canada gas stations, Jim Pattison Auto Group locations, Accent Inns and Panago Pizza.
Save-On-Foods is also the namesake company of the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Arena in Victoria, British Columbia. In 2004, the Jim Pattison Group agreed to pay $125,000 per year for 10 years for the Save-On-Foods name rights on Victoria’s new arena, amidst unpopular public opinion.
In February 2014, the company announced it was taking over 14 stores on Vancouver Island owned by Sobeys, mostly under the Safeway and Thrifty Foods banners. It was also announced that Overwaitea would convert 11 PriceSmart Foods locations to the Save-On-Foods brand.
Until 2015, Save-On-Foods operated exclusively in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. In July 2015, the company revealed it was planning to open as many as 40 stores in Manitoba and Saskatchewan over the following three to five years. The first of these stores were scheduled to open in 2016 and include three locations in Winnipeg) and four in Saskatchewan.
In March 2016, it was announced that Save-On-Foods would also expand to northern Canada opening up a store in Whitehorse, Yukon in 2017.
In 2017, Save-On-Foods began carrying private label products from UK grocery chain Tesco. This arrangement ended in early 2019.

Locations

Alberta

42 locations:
109 locations:
3 locations:
6 locations:
1 location:

British Columbia

1 location :