subsidiary industry supermarket founded british columbia 1915 headquarters langley british columbia canada key people jim pattison products western family western classics good and kind value priced revenue not reported private company parent jim pattison group website www.owfg.com the overwaitea food group is an operator of supermarkets based in langley british columbia canada . it is owned by the jim pattison group . on march 8 1915 robert c. kidd purchased a store at 746 columbia street in new westminster british columbia . he developed several innovative merchandising techniques to attract customers to his store including odd penny pricing and selling 18 ounces of tea for the price of a pound . the store was soon known as the over weight tea store . when kidd opened his second store he decided to call it overwaitea . as of august 2015 the overwaitea food group owns and operates 145 grocery stores in b.c. and alberta under six different brand names . ofg will be opening 4 stores in saskatchewan and 3 stores in winnipeg manitoba in 2016 . in february 2014 it was announced that overwaitea would purchase 15 stores from sobey s 3 in alberta and 12 in british columbia . the stores purchased were under the safeway thrifty foods and sobey s banners and all will convert to become save on foods stores . 1 it was also announced that overwaitea would convert 11 pricesmart foods locations to the save on foods brand . 2 ofg employs over 15 000 team members as of august 2015 . store banners edit save on foods overwaitea foods urban fare cooper s foods pricesmart foods bulkley valley wholesale references edit http www.timescolonist.com all victoria safeway stores sold to overwaitea food group 1.853373 http www.langleytimes.com business 245265591.html external links edit official site v t e jim pattison group people jim pattison president and ceo jim pattison media group broadcast television stations cfjc chat ckpg great west television joint venture with bell media radio stations by call sign cfdv cfmy cfqx chat chbw chbz chdr chiq chlb chpq chub chwf cibh cibw cifm cjav cjbz cjdr cjjr cjxx cjzn ckbz ckce ckdv ckiz ckkn ckkq cklr cklz ckpk ckqq ckwv outdoor signs pattison outdoor advertising overwaitea food group overwaitea foods pricesmart foods save on foods urban fare entertainment ripley entertainment ripley s believe it or not attractions ripley publishing ltd guinness world records v t e supermarket chains in canada 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 march adonis overwaitea food group overwaitea foods pricesmart foods save on foods urban fare sobeys foodland freshco iga except in british columbia price chopper safeway sobeys thrifty foods other national chains costco walmart regional chains calgary co op ab calgary area choices market bc vancouver kelowna co op atlantic maritimes qc farm boy on ottawa area kingston fairway markets bc victoria area foodex nl galati market fresh on toronto h mart bc & on highland farms on greater toronto area iga bc longo s on greater toronto area march frais qc ottawa northern northmart northern canada saskatoon co op sk saskatoon area spud bc alberta whole foods market bc & ontario defunct banners a & p ayre s supermarkets commisso s food markets dominion food city galati brothers h ritage 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 this retail business article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title overwaitea food group & oldid 693767256 categories supermarkets of canadajim pattison groupretail company stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 december 2015 at 19 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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