Food City or Food Town were Canadian supermarkets operated by the Toronto-based Oshawa Group

Oshawa Group

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. The stores were often paired with department store chain Towers

Towers Department Stores

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A typical Food City store had:

• Meats/Deli
• Produce
• Frozen goods
• Canned goods

The stores employed a plastic numbered basket system at the checkout that would be placed onto rollers and/or a conveyor and then is loaded by staff at a drive-thru. This system, which is becoming increasingly rare, is commonly referred to as parcel pickup or car order.

Smaller stores were re-branded as Food Town; the Food City name disappeared after the sale of the parent company to Sobeys

Sobeys

Sobeys is the second largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,300 supermarkets operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than $14 billion CAD in 2009...

 in 1998. Many of the locations became Price Chopper

Price Chopper (Canada)

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