Choices Market

Choices Markets

Type	Private
Industry	Grocery store, Health food store
Founded	1990 (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Headquarters	Vancouver, British Columbia
Key people	Ishkander Ahmed, CEO, Wayne and Lloyd Lockhart, Founders
Products	Food, Organic food
Website	www.choicesmarkets.com

Choices Markets is a Vancouver-based supermarket chain that is focused on natural and organic food.

The chain has ten stores: nine in metro Vancouver,^[1] including one rice bakery, and one location in Kelowna. Choices was founded in December 1990 by brothers Wayne and Lloyd Lockhart.^[2] The owners emphasize that the store caters to a range of diets, including Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan. Lockhart cites this is a guiding principle for the chain: "It's all about providing choice.".^[3]

The company has relied on various techniques aimed at increasing customer loyalty in order to compete with larger chains in the area, such as providing customers with loyalty cards and providing an in-house nutritionist to help advise customers.

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Supermarket chains in Canada

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

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

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

Other national chains	Costco Walmart

Regional chains	Calgary Co-op (Alberta: Calgary area) Choices Market (BC: Vancouver, Kelowna) Co-op Atlantic (Maritimes, Quebec) Farm Boy (Ontario: Ottawa area, Kingston) Fairway Markets (Victoria area) Foodex (Newfoundland and Labrador) Galati Market Fresh (Ontario: Toronto) H Mart (Greater Vancouver, Greater Toronto Area) IGA (in British Columbia) Longo's (Ontario: Greater Toronto Area) Marché Frais (Quebec, Ottawa) Northern/Northmart (Northern Canada) Saskatoon Co-op (Saskatchewan: Saskatoon area) SPUD (BC, Alberta) Whole Foods Market (Greater Vancouver, 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

Companies based in the Metro Vancouver area

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Choices Market

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