Pattison Food Group is an operator of

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s, based in

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. It is owned by the

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. Most stores are under the

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banner, which it launched in 1982.

History and expansion

On March 8, 1915, Robert C. Kidd purchased a store at 746 Columbia Street in

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. He developed several innovative merchandising techniques to attract customers to his store including odd-penny pricing and selling 18 ounces of tea for the price of a pound. The store was soon known as the "over-weight tea" store. When Kidd opened his second store, he decided to call it "Overwaitea". As of August 2015, the Overwaitea Food Group owned and operated 145 grocery stores in B.C. and Alberta under six different

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. OFG later opened four stores in Saskatchewan and three stores in Winnipeg, Manitoba during 2016. Additionally, in 2017 a full-size store was opened in

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. In February 2014, it was announced that Overwaitea would purchase 15 stores from

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, three in Alberta and twelve in British Columbia. The stores purchased were under the

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and Sobeys banners and all were converted to become Save-On-Foods stores. It was also announced that Overwaitea would convert 11 PriceSmart Foods locations to the Save-On-Foods brand. OFG employed over 15,000 team members, as of August 2015. On March 22, 2018, the Overwaitea Foods banner became defunct with the closure of the last two locations in British Columbia, which were reopened the following day as Save-On-Foods stores. In August 2019,

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announced that it would switch grocery suppliers from

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to Overwaitea, stating that this would "better serve members and ensure long-term sustainability". In 2021, the Overwaitea Food Group was renamed Pattison Food Group. The operations of Buy-Low Foods and Quality Foods, also owned by the Jim Pattison Group, merged into the rebranded company. Later that year, Pattison Food Group acquired Roth’s Fresh Markets, a chain of grocery stores in

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, marking its first retail expansion outside of western Canada.

Store Banners

*AG Foods *Bulkley Valley Wholesale *Buy-Low Foods *Choices Markets *Everything Wine *Meinhardt Fine Foods *Nature’s Fare Markets *Nesters Market *

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*Pure Integrative Pharmacy *Quality Foods *Roth's Fresh Markets **Chuck's Produce and Street Market *

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More Rewards

More Rewards is a coalition customer loyalty program run by Pattison Food Group. Points can be earned at most PFG store banners, Panago, Coast Hotels and Jim Pattison Auto Group locations, among others. Petro Canada gas stations were partnered with the program until July 31, 2020. The program also had a

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credit card offered by

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, although it was discontinued on August 31, 2019. A partnership was later established to offer bonus points at More Rewards partnered grocery stores when paying with any

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-branded credit or debit card.

References

External links

* {{portalbar, Companies, Supermarkets Jim Pattison Group Supermarkets of Canada Food and drink companies based in British Columbia