Shop-Rite (Canada)

Shop-Rite was a chain of catalogue stores in Ontario, Canada, that operated from the 1970s to 1982.

The chain began with four stores in London, Ontario, in the early 1970s and was acquired in 1972 by Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)[1] when it purchased Middlesex Warehouse Sales Ltd., the operators of Shop-Rite catalogue stores.

[2] Shop-Rite had been running annual losses of $3 million as a result of waning consumer interest.

[2] Wally Evans, president of The Bay at the time, said that in order to make the business viable, it would have to expand outside of Ontario, but that it did not have the money to do so.

[2] Consumers Distributing closed in 1996 due mainly to the increase in big-box department stores like Zellers and Walmart.