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justme(Karen)
 
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"William R. Watt" wrote:
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> "justme" ) writes:
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> >...He said that National Grocers is the buyer for
> > all the stores in Ontario (IGA, A&P, Ziggy's, etc).

>
> George Weston's pretty well has a monopoly on supermarkets in Ontario now.
> Their wholesale division supplies Loblaws, Your Independent Grocer (aka
> IGA), Loeb, and others. The weekend flyers delivered to my house are
> almost identical, just one page differs for each of those three branded
> chains. The consolodation in supermarkets started some time ago. I worked
> in differently branded supermarkets as a student, all owned by Weston's.
> One summer I was working day shift in one store and part time evening
> shift in aother until the district manager thought I looked a lot like the
> guy he saw working at the other store so I had to quit the evening job. I
> guess the payroll systems had not been consolodated.
>

LOL!!


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