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Nations Fresh Foods

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Nations Experience in Stock Yards Village, Toronto
Nations Fresh Foods in Lloyd D. Jackson Square, Hamilton

Nations Fresh Foods is an independently owned grocery store chain in Ontario, Canada. It was founded in August 2012 in Woodbridge, Ontario.[1]

The chain has four stores; the first store opened in Woodbridge, Ontario on August 28, 2012,[1] the second store opened in Hamilton, Ontario, in Lloyd D. Jackson Square on July 13, 2013,[2] the third store opened in Mississauga, Ontario on February 1, 2017.[3] The fourth store, considered their flagship store, was opened on November 16, 2017, in Toronto, at the Stock Yards Village mall, inside a former Target Canada location.[4]

A fifth store opened in Brampton, Ontario on January 9th, 2025, replacing the sister store Oceans Fresh Food Market at Shoppers World Brampton, that was closed on November 27th, 2024. Each store has groceries that are mainly imported from Asia as well as other countries.

Its parent company, Oceans Fresh Group, also owns Oceans Fresh Foods Market stores, an affiliated chain of stores. According to the company, Nations are considered "a new, higher-end, banner store". In total, the parent company owns 8 stores: 5 Nations Fresh Foods stores, 2 Oceans Fresh Foods Market stores, and 1 Grant's Foodmart store, which is another affiliate chain. Two of the stores are located in Brampton, Ontario, three in Mississauga, Ontario, along with the head office for the chains, one in Vaughan, Ontario, one in Hamilton, Ontario, and one in Toronto, Ontario.[5][6][7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nations Experience Plans tRevolutionize Canadian Retailing". retail-insider.com. May 16, 2018.
  2. ^ "Downtown Hamilton gets supermarket after long wait". CHCH News. July 2, 2013.
  3. ^ Powell, Chris (April 28, 2017). "Store of the month: Nations Fresh Foods Mississauga". canadiangrocer.com.
  4. ^ Toneguzzi, Mario (December 4, 2017). "Stock Yards Village Adds Unique Hybrid Grocery Store/Entertainment Complex". retail-insider.com.
  5. ^ "Home". nationsfreshfoods.ca.
  6. ^ "Multi juice". Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Inside Nations Experience, a 155,000-square-foot supermarket with an arcade, a playground and all-day dim sum". torontolife.com. 6 December 2017.