store health food store founded 1990 vancouver british columbia headquarters delta 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 market plans to open its 11th location in north vancouver in late spring 2016 . 2 choices was founded in december 1990 by brothers wayne and lloyd lockhart . 3 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 . . 4 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 the choices preferred shopper card which allows customers to receive discounts on specially labelled products and accumulate points when they shop . 5 providing an in house nutritionist to help advise customers and worked to build energy and theatre in stores through product demos food festivals and farmer shopper interaction . 6 canadian federation of independent grocers inducted choices markets white rock south surrey b.c. into the hall of fame in 2015 . to be eligible for hall of fame induction a store must win at least three gold awards or receive one platinum achievement award and one gold award . 7 references edit our company choices markets . choices markets . retrieved 2016 04 19 . korstrom glen december 9 2015 . choices markets to open 11th store in north vancouver . business in vancouver newspaper . retrieved april 18 2016 via business in vacouver website . choices markets bc s grocery leader in gourmet and organic foods company the globe and mail preferred shopper . preferred shopper . choices market . retrieved april 18 2016 . lee jenny august 7 2015 . metro vancouver food chain thrives alongside goliath . vancouver sun . retrieved april 18 2016 via vancouver sun . neshevich carol september 30 2015 . cfig presents independent grocer of the year awards . food in canada magazine . retrieved april 18 2016 via http www.foodincanada.com . see also edit list of canadian supermarkets 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 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