MIRACLE MART (CANADA)

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'Miracle Mart' was a discount department stores chain in Ontario and Quebec founded in 1960, that was created and owned by Quebec-based grocery chain Steinberg. These stores operated at mid-level and competed with the likes of Towers/Bonimart, Zellers, Woolco and Kmart. There was also a spinoff grocery chain, Miracle Food Mart, that operated exclusively in Ontario.
The Miracle Mart department stores were renamed 'M Store' around 1986, while the grocery store continued to operate as Miracle Food Mart. In 1990, A&P Canada acquired the Miracle Mart Food Mart chain in a $202.5 million deal from Steinberg. The M stores, still owned by Steinberg, continued to operate in both provinces.
In an attempt to capture the volatile retail sector, M modified its logo in late 1991 from pink to red, and added the word "aubaines" in diagonal and attached letters on the logo. But this wasn't enough. The M stores were liquidated in 1992, virtually the same time parent company Steinberg went bankrupt.
The name lives on in a unrelated North Dakota supermarket chain.

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Locations

Quebec

References

Locations

Quebec

★ Brossard - Mail Champlain

★ Charlesbourg - Galeries Charlesbourg

★ Dollard-des-Ormeaux - Galeries des Sources

★ Greenfield Park - Place Greenfield Park

★ Hull, Quebec - Les Galeries de Hull

★ Lasalle - Place Lasalle

★ Longueuil - Place Longueuil

★ Montreal - Place Alexis Nihon

★ Montreal - Place Versailles

★ Montreal - Plaza Côte-des-Neiges

★ Saint-Bruno - Les Promenades Saint-Bruno

★ Sainte-Foy - Place Sainte-Foy

★ Saint-Leonard - Jean-Talon East Boulevard

References

★ Retailing in Canada

★ Miracle of a Deal

★ Miracle Mart Inc.