Village Food Stores

Logo on store in Quispamsis, NB.

Village Food Stores (known as simply Village on signs) was a chain of supermarkets operating in New Brunswick, Canada, between 1987 and 1995. The chain was formed by wholesaler The Food Group Inc. (FGI) when they bought most Dominion locations in the province after they left the Atlantic Canada market.

Most Village stores were in shopping malls, and they were never more than the third-largest grocery company in the province, after Sobeys and Atlantic Wholesalers. Village was the only unionized supermarket chain in New Brunswick, and concessions to the union after a threatened strike in 1994 brought FGI to bankruptcy.

Atlantic Wholesalers bought FGI in 1994, converted most stores to the Atlantic SuperValu format by the end of 1995, and closed the others.

Supermarket chains in Canada

Loblaw Companies	Atlantic Superstore Dominion Extra Foods Fortinos Freshmart Loblaws Maxi No Frills Provigo Real Canadian Superstore SaveEasy SuperValu T&T Valu-mart Wholesale Club Your Independent Grocer Zehrs

Metro Inc.	Food Basics Metro Super C Marché Adonis

Overwaitea Food Group	Overwaitea Foods PriceSmart Foods Save-On-Foods Urban Fare

Sobeys	Foodland FreshCo IGA (except in British Columbia) Price Chopper Safeway Sobeys Thrifty Foods

Other national chains	Costco Walmart

Regional chains	Calgary Co-op (AB: Calgary area) Choices Market (BC: Vancouver, Kelowna) Co-op Atlantic (Maritimes, QC) Farm Boy (ON: Ottawa area, Kingston) Fairway Markets (BC: Victoria area) Foodex (NL) Galati Market Fresh (ON: Toronto) H Mart (BC & ON) Highland Farms (ON: Greater Toronto Area) IGA (BC) Longo's (ON: Greater Toronto Area) Marché Frais (QC, Ottawa) Northern/Northmart (Northern Canada) Saskatoon Co-op (SK: Saskatoon area) SPUD (BC, Alberta) Whole Foods Market (BC & Ontario)

Defunct banners	A&P Ayre's Supermarkets Commisso's Food Markets Dominion Food City Galati Brothers Héritage Knob Hill Farms Loeb Miracle Food Mart Sav-A-Centre Steinberg's Super Centre Target Ultra Food & Drug Village Food Stores Zellers (2 stores still remain in Ontario)

List of supermarket chains in Canada

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Village Food Stores

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