Retail Units
Beginning in the 1906s, Oshsawa Group acquired various retail chains and stores:
- Rite-Way Department Store 1966
- IGA 1964
- Bassin Food chain 1964
- Tradition Market Fresh Food
- Knechtel
- Pharma Plus Drug Stores - acquired in 1988 from Boots Group and once owned by Loblaws; sold to Katz Group of Companies
- Kent Drugs Limited 1968
- Rockower of Canada Limited 1968
- Food City and later as Food Town - converted by Sobeys as Price Chopper
- FreshCo, previously branded as Price Chopper
- Towers Department Stores 1967 - acquired as Allied Towers Merchants Limited and ceased operations in 1990 with store locations sold to Zellers)
- Consumers Distributing Company Limited - sold 50% stake in 1978
- Coinamatic Laundry Equipment - sold 90% stake in 1978
- acquired Dominion Stores Limited's operations in Nova Scotia and Safeway's stores in Southern Ontario 1985
- acquired Canadian operations of Boots Drug Stores 1988 - changed to Pharma Plus banner
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