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- Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
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Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
Twenty-five years ago, grocery stores Miracle Mart and Ultra Food Mart were shut down as part of a 14-week strike. The Brampton Guardian photographed the picket lines in November 1993. Rewinding a quarter of a century, Canadian grocery chains were tightening their budgets, anticipating troubles with the entry of American discounters and ...
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That spurred Loblaws, Dominion and Safeway to act, having learned from similar price-related skirmishes in the past. "They matched the price cuts, penny for penny," said Burt. Miracle Mart believed it could sustain a business with lower prices, in part by having slashed the costs of their own operations. The store was spending less on advertising a...
Over at Loblaws, President Dave Nichol was skeptical of Miracle Mart's strategy. "I think, in my opinion, they've got a serious sales problem — they're losing customers, they're desperate and they're trying to do something to buy their competitors' customers," he said. "How are you going to reduce your prices by 18 per cent? I mean, you don't have ...
"Any low price is a good concept for a shopper," said a smiling customer who talked to CBC News about the price war. Another shopper said she was "looking forward for it continuing like this." But Burt said it was an open question how long the good times would last for grocery shoppers. Another question was why other chains hadn't tried the same ap...
Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
Miracle Mart was a discount department stores chain in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. History. It was founded in 1960 by Montreal-based grocery chain Steinberg and its first store opened in 1961.
Its anchors consisted of Steinberg, Miracle Mart, The Bay and Eaton's. [6] Miracle Mart was located on the floor above Steinberg's. [7] In 1982, The Bay expanded from 123,000 to 181,000 square feet with the addition of a third floor. [8]
A new food and drug store chain, Miracle Ultra-Mart stores, was introduced in the mid-1980s. The main warehousing and administrative offices were in Rexdale (Etobicoke, now part of Toronto). The Ottawa, Cornwall and Brockville stores were part of the Quebec division rather than the Ontario division.
