I recently stumbled across this Christmas time ad from 1962.
11 locations listed there. When they were acquired in 1995 by Shoppers Drug Mart, there were 135 locations across south western Ontario.
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I remember the BigV on Seminole and George. It's still open as a shoppers, but as more and more of those ginormous Shoppers stores open around it I worry that it won't be around much longer.
Ok, this may be a dumb question but...what does the 'V' in BigV stand for? Anyone know?
Good question... I think the "V" was someone's name... The first letter of the founder's last name maybe?
Last year I stumbled upon a Big V logo on the back door of former location in downtown Kitchener - one of the last traces of the chain? The Shoppers it was converted to moved to a new location a few blocks north around the time the picture was taken.
It's too bad that SDM is going back to the "neighbourhood" drug store concept and building gigantic 20,000 square foot stores that don't fit into any neighbourhood. In 15 years when they want to move on to a new location we'll be stuck with this ugly gray, red and beige building.
hez - I've heard through the grapevine (hopefully it's not true) that the Seminole /George and Wyandotte/St. Louis stores may close when the new store on Wyandotte near Pillette is completed soon.
Big Value.
Randolph - I heard that the new monster near Pilette is replacing the Wyandotte/St. Louis location. Not sure about the Seminole one.
Great find Andrew. As a child I used to visit the Riverside Pharmacy. The address shown (1300 Wyandotte Street East) reflects the fact that it was still in the town of Riverside then.
I heard the Shoppers on Seminloe is closing.Also the one at Rivard is closing and moving to Westminister & Techumseh. So 3 are closing and 2 large ones are opening.The one at Rivard is almost empty inside as I was there yesterday !!!!
Well the era of the one in Riverside is about to change, it will be moving to a much larger one on the site of the old Royale Tavern in July.
I have heard rumor that they will be relocating the smaller Tim Hortons from accross the street to this site, I hope to hell they don't permit a drive thru in it.
They will be moving a Tim Horton's to the Wyandotte/St. Louis site and it most likely will come equipped with a drive-thru.