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 worked at De Re’s Big V in South Windsor during my high school years in the ’60s, as a delivery driver. The ladies whom I worked with, Lily and Leah were a lot of fun. One time some guy came in and asked me for “prophylactics”. I had no idea but they rescued me.