<Tr> <Th> Subsidiaries </Th> <Td> Big 8 Beverages Safeway FreshCo Foodland Needs Convenience Lawtons Thrifty Foods IGA / IGA Extra Marché Bonichoix Marché Tradition Price Chopper Rachelle - Béry Pete's Frootique </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> corporate.sobeys.com sobeys.com (retail site) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sobeys Inc. is the second largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,500 stores operating in Canada under a variety of banners . Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than $24 billion CAD in the fiscal 2017 operating year . It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, a Canadian conglomerate . </P> <P> Sobeys was founded in Stellarton, Nova Scotia by John W. Sobey in 1907 as a meat delivery business . In 1924, his son Frank H. Sobey convinced him to expand into a full grocery business, serving the industrial Pictou County region . From that point until his death, Frank was the driving force behind the business . Sobeys opened its first self - serve supermarket in 1949 . </P>

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