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Originally Posted by The Jabroni
Strange how Westfair/Loblaw is returning to that location when they literally have a Superstore a couple blocks away... the very store that replaced what was previously there, which I think was a Dominion or something... I don't know. I was born the same year when they opened the McPhillips Superstore.  |
Best I can recall the building behind Domo on McPhillips near Inkster was always Weston owned and functioned as a grocery store under their lead banner until it relocated to the current site. I do not really recall it as a Loblaws but know something was there and it seemed fairly boring at the time. I also don't recall a big change to Supervalu so Loblaws seems likely and possibly a newer one v the one on Henderson which eventually reopened as Penner Foods.
For perspective, around the time the Gateway Superstore opened it was very similar in size to the McPhillips store. The Gateway store was expanded at least twice, removing both of the parking lots on either side of the store. The McPhillips location though was tightly bound by property lines and could not be expanded in the same way.
Superstore took over the Red River Coop site when they shut down their retail operations in the early 80s. Again I do not recall the Coop grocery store but recall the Superstore was a substantially different building if not a whole new building when it opened.
As for the McPhillips St Dominion, it effectively does not exist anymore as it was mostly or fully removed and replaced by the food court at Garden City Shopping Center. I want to say the food court is a bit shifted from where the Dominion was.
With the changes to the Domion Shopping Center and the building at Confussion Corner behind the Burger King the last real remaining evidence of the chain is the Main St IGA. Before that the old, now demolished movie theater at KP still had the old parcel pickup doors on the outside. KP was for a long time the one local location that was spared from the widespread closure of the chain in Winnipeg.
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Originally Posted by The Jabroni
I mean, sure, grocery stores are in demand I guess, but it would be nice to HAVE A GROCERY STORE OF SIMILAR CALIBER DOWNTOWN!!!   |
As I have covered many times, the cost of real estate in downtown Winnipeg, the narrow margins in grocery retailing, the high theft rates in the area, and the reach of home delivery the big five players have to cover legitimate customers is going to keep them all out of downtown. There are only two ways a grocery store downtown happens, a private independent with deep pockets is willing to open one for returns that are worse than a GIC, or a government operated/funded one is opened.
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Originally Posted by BAKGUY
Seems they want to try to cut into Savon Foods sales...Just a few blocks east exists a No Frills on main & Inkster.
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It is more the other way around. Weston has long had a presence at Main and Inkster also under their value banner. First Economart, then Extra Foods and now No Thrills. Save on Foods is very much the new kid.
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