Atlantic Superstore is a chain of supermarkets operating in Nova Scotia, as well as in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. George Weston Ltd via Loblaw Companies Ltd. owns the supermarket chain.
History
Atlantic Superstore was founded in 1986, with its first store located in New Brunswick, in the area of Moncton. The store was owned and operated by Loblaw Companies, which entered the area of Atlantic Canada in 1976. It became possible for Loblaw to start a grocery chain when it acquired Atlantic Wholesalers, the company that owned a chain of SaveEasy stores.
Originally, the store’s name was “The Real Atlantic Store.” The name was shortened to Atlantic Superstore in 1995, and is still operating under that name. Along with the shortening of the store’s name was the “re-formatting” of the grocery store to become more of a market-style store. The majority of the SaveEasy stores in rural locations were eventually converted to superstores.
In the 1990s, Atlantic Superstore relocated its headquarters to Nova Scotia(Dartmouth) from Sackville. With this relocation, new warehouse facilities for logistics distribution were put-up. At the same time, the company also began a huge campaign for expansion. This campaign brought large-format stores and many centres in just a few years. There were plans to convert several Atlantic Superstores to “No-Frills” stores, depending on the demographics of the stores.
Currently, Atlantic Superstore is still owned by Loblaw Companies, through George Weston Ltd. The stores are still operated by Loblaws’ Atlantic Wholesalers division. Each of these stores is 45,000 square feet to 120,000 square feet in size. There are currently 54 Atlantic Superstores. Nineteen of these stores are located in New Brunswick, 30 stores in Nova Scotia and 4 stores located on Prince Edward Island.
Atlantic Superstore shares part of its name with sister store “Real Canadian Superstore.” However, despite the name sharing, there is a difference in the two sister stores. Atlantic Superstores do not necessarily have the hypermarket format; a considerable number of them just have large sizes, but with a minimal number of general merchandise. Other Atlantic Superstores have the “One-Stop” format and offer a wide range of goods. These goods include groceries, housewares, electronics and clothing. The One-Stop stores also offer services like a pharmacy and a photo-finishing lab.
Several larger Atlantic Superstores offer a drive-thru pharmacy, a liquor store, a community room, a gas bar and a tobacco shop. There are even stores that have walk-in clinics.
Headquarters: Dartmouth,Nova Scotia
Ownership Type: A subsidiary of George Weston Ltd.
Employees: Information not available
Geography:New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island (Canada)
Demography: Retail products consumers
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Today was yet another second time of the worst customer service. I have been a faithful customer of Atlantic Superstore for many many years but recently the service is the worst. #1 Lady week I was shopping and seen a large # of turkeys in the freezer there was a meat dept employee filling up the section of hams, I said three times, “ excuse me sir are these on sale now “ to which he said, without turning to even acknowledge me, “ if you don’t see a sign than they are not”. I then asked “ are they on sale starting tomorrow as if so I’ll wait”, still not turning to give me eye contact, he said “ yes yes there is a flyer that says so”, we do not get flyers anymore where I live. Excuse my language, this pissed me off, rude as hell.
#2 today I was there again shopping spent almost $300 and the male cashier made no attempt to help me pack. Two of the customers were nice enough to help as I had two big turkeys ham etc. he stood there while I pack my six bags, holding up the customers behind me, and made no attempt to help pack. I was fuming and trying my best to not embarrass myself. I looked right at him and said “ why are you not helping with the packing as if would speed things along to wait on the next customer”. I can’t believe his reply, he said “ our store manager has instructed us to not pack grocery to avoid breaking, spoiling items etc” lord love of god that was the most stupid thing I ever heard. Funny thing is I stood there watching some of the other cashiers and most were helping customers packing. Honestly you need to do something about this because word of mouth is your best or worse means attention.
To end I just wanted to say, I worked for Save Easy for years in the meat department, deli department and was the head cashier so I know somewhat about service.
Over the years I have shopped at the Atlantic superstore in montague PEI and always found the checkout people so very friendly. However this summer that is not the case. Not sure if it is because of covid but this year I rarely get a hello from the people at the cash. The unfriendly attitude is such a shame as that is not what I expect from people in PEI. I will be trying the local Sobeys on my next shopping day to see if it is the same there.
My husband and I are customers of the St. Stephen,N.B. superstore and the St. Andrews SaveEasy. We are disturbed by the recent move to pricing items at two for a certain price or considerably more than half the price for one. We understand the motive, which is obviously to increase sales but are concerned about the effect on those customers who live on a limited income, those who live alone and families of two persons.
In our own case, we live just across the border from Calais, Maine, where the I.G.A., in most cases, offers better pricing, especially for produce and poultry, even taking the current exchange rate into consideration. Consequently, if this method of increasing sales continues, that is where we will be doing most of our future shopping
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I am a resident of Windsor N.S. Recently we have noticed that the organic section seems to be shutting down at the Windsor Superstore. This development is most unfortunate and regressive. The trend is definitely more toward safer organic food. And, locally grown and produced food as the cost of truck transportation increase as it surely will. I and my wife wil not be shopping at this Windsor superstore in the future if organ products are not available.