- Wal-Mart Canada
Wal-Mart Canada is the Canadian unit of
Wal-Mart and was founded in1994 inMississauga, Ontario with the purchase of the CanadianWoolco stores. Wal-Mart typically competes withZellers ,Canadian Tire ,Hart Stores ,Giant Tiger , andReal Canadian Superstore ,Costco , and increasingly grocery stores such asLoblaw andSobeys -Thrifty Foods ,Safeway ,Save-On-Foods ,Country Grocer ,Fairway Markets , others.Beginning in the fall of
2006 , Wal-Mart opened new Supercentres in select Canadian cities with 14 new stores by the end of2007 . Wal-Mart locations already carry limited grocery items inCanada .History
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Wal-Mart Canada was established in 1994 with the acquisition of the Woolco Canada chain of 122 stores. Wal-Mart Canada has plans to open 15-20 stores each year.
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* 294 stores (includes 122 former
Woolco locations)
* 36 Wal-Mart Supercentres [http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=9eb9f388-2f4b-40e8-a360-5d5ed5054bc7]
* 6Sam's Club s* 70,000 employees
Top 5 stores in Canada
*
Square One Shopping Centre , 100 City Centre Drive, Mississauga (Store 3055)
* Wal-Mart Supercentre Edmonton West, STONY PLAIN RD & 184th ST
*Marlborough Mall , Memorial Drive and 36th Street, Calgary (Store 3012)
* Wal-Mart Supercentre, 800 Warden Ave, Toronto, Ontario
*South Edmonton Common , 9717-21st Avenue N.W., Edmonton (Store 3029)Community Involvement
* Raised and donated $3 million to
Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) to support children's hospitals across Canada.
* Contributed $2.9 million to more than 1,000 local non-profit organizations through Wal-Mart's Local Matching Grant program.
* Raised and contributed $865,000 million for theBreakfast for Learning Canada program, a school nutrition program and partnership with a goal to ensure all school children attend class well nourished and ready to learn.
* Became the top corporate sponsor of theCanadian Red Cross , with $1 million in relief aid related toHurricane Katrina , the India earthquake and other projects.
* Donated $300,000 to Evergreen, a Canadian non-profit environmental organization to help community groups create and improve green space in urban areas across the country.
* Awarded $115,000 in scholarships to Canadian university and college students.
* Supported 150 Canadian schools through a number of programs including Wal-Mart Canada's Adopt-a School program.upercentres in Canada
With the success of both Wal-Mart in
Canada andWal-Mart Supercenter s in theUnited States , it was announced in late2005 that the Supercenter (or, inCanadian English , Supercentre) concept would be arriving in Canada. OnNovember 8 ,2006 , Canada's first three Supercentres opened in Ancaster (Hamilton), London, and Stouffville in Ontario. Wal-Mart will have over 60 Supercenters at the end of January 2009.Controversy
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Criticism of Wal-Mart "Wal-Mart has been the subject of some criticism by certain groups who claim that Wal-Mart has lower labour standards than other similar retailers. Other criticisms centre around the claim that due to their low prices they drive out local businesses.
External links
* [http://www.walmart.ca/ Wal-Mart Canada]
* [http://walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=374 Wal-Mart Canadian operations]
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