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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Supermarket |
| Predecessors | Overwaitea Food Group Buy-Low Foods LP Quality Foods |
| Founded | 1915; 111 years ago (1915) |
| Headquarters | Langley,British Columbia, Canada |
Key people | Jamie Nelson (president)[1][2] |
| Products | Western Family Only Goodness |
Number of employees | 15,000 (2015) |
| Parent | Jim Pattison Group |
| Website | pattisonfoodgroup |
Pattison Food Group is an operator ofsupermarkets, based inLangley, British Columbia. It is owned by theJim Pattison Group. Most stores are under theSave-On-Foods banner, which it launched in 1982.
On March 8, 1915, Robert C. Kidd purchased a store at 746 Columbia Street inNew Westminster,British Columbia. 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 differentbrand names. OFG later opened four stores in Saskatchewan and three stores in Winnipeg, Manitoba during 2016. Additionally, in 2017 a full-size store was opened inWhitehorse, Yukon.
In February 2014, it was announced that Overwaitea would purchase 15 stores fromSobeys, three in Alberta and twelve in British Columbia. The stores purchased were under theSafeway,Thrifty Foods and Sobeys banners and all were converted to become Save-On-Foods stores.[3]It was also announced that Overwaitea would convert 11 PriceSmart Foods locations to the Save-On-Foods brand.[4]
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.[5]
In August 2019,Calgary Co-op announced that it would switch grocery suppliers fromFederated Co-operatives to Overwaitea, stating that this would "better serve members and ensure long-term sustainability".[6][7][8]
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.[9] Later that year, Pattison Food Group acquired Roth’s Fresh Markets, a chain of grocery stores inOregon, marking its first retail expansion outside of western Canada.[10]
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 aVisa credit card offered byScotiabank, 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 anyCIBC-branded credit or debit card.
