Fortunately, Sudbury's wholesale renumberings don't seem to have affected anything other than Elm and Durham Streets...and they didn't even effect the whole streets, only the lower blocks. I now have the table straightened out to the best of my ability. So it's good to go!
Sudbury chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1925-2019.
Some thoughts and observations on chain development...
* D. W. Jessup scarcely qualifies as a chain, but they seem to have briefly had two locations open when the 1930 directory was canvassed, so I included it on that technicality. (And to prevent the 1925 column from consisting of utterly nothing at all.)
* The mysterious
Eaton chain operated in Sudbury, just like in other Ontario cities. Its stores were up and running by 1930, and were converted to something called Foodateria by 1940. By 1942, even Foodateria was gone.
* Dominion entered Sudbury later than it did southern Ontario, and also never blanketed Sudbury with neighbourhood stores. They instead competed with Loblaws and A&P on a one-for-one basis, and didn't open multiple stores until after WWII.
* Steinberg competed in Sudbury under its Miracle Food Mart and Valdi (discount) divisions. I was surprised to see them here, but maybe I shouldn't be: Sudbury is a lot closer to Quebec on the map than Toronto is.
* As with other northern Ontario cities, Loblaws in Sudbury had a scattered existence. They pulled out of the market in the early 1980s (in tandem with Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie) and eventually returned only under the Valu-Mart, Your Independent Grocer and Real Canadian Superstore banners.
* A&P also had a scattered existence in Sudbury. Rather than capitalize on Dominion's store base in the 1980s, they withdrew from the city, briefly leaving Steinberg and the Oshawa Group as Sudbury's biggest chain operators. They eventually returned in the 1990s by way of the Miracle Food Mart acquisition.
* Loeb had stores here. Loeb also had a warehouse and multiple wholesale outlets in the city, and the directories don't do a good job distinguishing one from another.
Some additional thoughts and observations...
* There is a gap in the available data between 1942 and 1963. Other than that, I'm happy with the thoroughness of the chronological spread.
* Dominion had a district headquarters in Sudbury on
130 Paris Street. It's a great piece of kitschy modernist architecture!
* Dominion built one of its
archetypal late '50s stores in Sudbury.
* A&P built a rare-for-Canada centennial store in Sudbury. It's off-model with an incomplete roof, but it's a bona fide centennial nevertheless...and it has the cupola and canopy braces to match!