Fairway Markets

Not to be confused with Fairway Market.

For other uses, see Fairway (disambiguation).

Fairway Markets ^[1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The 10 store chain was founded by Don Yuen^[2] in 1963 and employs over 700.^[3]

The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.

Founder

Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business.^[4] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.

Locations

272 Gorge Road West, Victoria, BC - original store from 1963
101-2187 Athlone Court, Victoria, BC
2945 Jacklin Road Victoria, BC
1521 McKenzie Ave, Victoria, BC
2635 Quadra Street, Victoria, BC - a former Safeway location
3651 Shelbourne Street, Victoria, BC
7108 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC
103-4750 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, BC
3737 10th Avenue, Port Alberni, BC
2531 Beacon Avenue, Sidney, BC

References

External links

Fairway Markets in Victoria, B.C.

Supermarket chains in Canada

Loblaw Companies	Atlantic Superstore Dominion Extra Foods Fortinos Freshmart Loblaws Maxi No Frills Provigo Real Canadian Superstore SaveEasy SuperValu T&T Valu-mart Wholesale Club Your Independent Grocer Zehrs

Metro Inc.	Food Basics Metro Super C Marché Adonis

Overwaitea Food Group	Overwaitea Foods PriceSmart Foods Save-On-Foods Urban Fare

Sobeys	Foodland FreshCo IGA (except in British Columbia) Price Chopper Safeway Sobeys Thrifty Foods

Other national chains	Costco Walmart

Regional chains	Calgary Co-op (AB: Calgary area) Choices Market (BC: Vancouver, Kelowna) Co-op Atlantic (Maritimes, QC) Farm Boy (ON: Ottawa area, Kingston) Fairway Markets (BC: Victoria area) Foodex (NL) Galati Market Fresh (ON: Toronto) H Mart (BC & ON) Highland Farms (ON: Greater Toronto Area) IGA (BC) Longo's (ON: Greater Toronto Area) Marché Frais (QC, Ottawa) Northern/Northmart (Northern Canada) Saskatoon Co-op (SK: Saskatoon area) SPUD (BC, Alberta) Whole Foods Market (BC & Ontario)

Defunct banners	A&P Ayre's Supermarkets Commisso's Food Markets Dominion Food City Galati Brothers Héritage Knob Hill Farms Loeb Miracle Food Mart Sav-A-Centre Steinberg's Super Centre Target Ultra Food & Drug Village Food Stores Zellers (2 stores still remain in Ontario)

List of supermarket chains in Canada

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