Super C (supermarket)

Super C
Trade name	Super C
Formerly	Super Carnaval (1983–1991)
Company type	Division
Industry	Retail supermarket
Founded	1982
Headquarters	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Products	Bakery, beer, dairy, deli products, frozen foods, general grocery, liquor, meat & poultry, produce, seafood, snacks, wine; Select locations
Parent	Metro Inc.
Website	www.superc.ca

Super C is a discount supermarket chain with 101 stores in Quebec. The stores average 4,103 square metres (44,164 sq ft) in size.^[1] Super C offers 8,000 products including some 1,200 products from the Super C private label brand.

Super C traces its origins as La Ferme Carnaval founded on September 15, 1982 which opened a supermarket under the trade name Super Carnaval in January 1983 in Beauport, Quebec.^[2]^[3] By January 1985, Super Carnaval had three stores in Quebec City and another three in the Montreal area.^[4]

Super Carnaval's head office was relocated from Quebec City to Lasalle, Quebec on October 20, 1986.^[5] The company was acquired by Metro-Richelieu on June 1, 1987 from Toronto-based Burnac Corporation.^[6]

In 1991, the 14 Super Carnaval outlets were converted in phases to the new banner Super C with the last stores renamed by May 1992.^[7] Since then, Super C has expanded by either obtaining the lease of vacant shopping mall anchor spaces, building its own free-standing stores or replacing Metro-branded locations. Only a handful of today's Super C outlets are former Super Carnaval grocery stores.

In mid-2006, all but one of the nine remaining Ontario stores were converted to Food Basics or Loeb stores. The Pembroke, Ontario store closed, and the building is now occupied by Value Village.

Advertising slogans

1998–2004: "Alimentation aux Meilleurs Prix!" ("Food at the Best Prices!"; used in stores in Quebec)
1998–2004: "Fresh Food for Less!" (used in Ontario stores and in English media in Ontario and Quebec)
2004–2006: "Where food prices are lower every day" (used in Ontario stores and in English media in Ontario and Quebec)
2004-2009/10: "C'est le meilleur Marché" ("It's the best market", and has double meaning of "It's the best deal")
2009–present: "Beau, bon, pas cher" ("Beautiful, good, cheap")

Private labels

Selection
Éconochoix / Econochoice
Irresistibles
Super C
Loeb Bakery Shoppe
The Event Pleaser
Red Grill Meats

References

^ "Super C Corporate Profile". Retrieved 24 April 2009.
^ "Partie 1: Avis juridiques" (PDF). Gazette officielle du Québec (42). 16 October 1982 – via collections.banq.qc.ca.
^ "Super-supermarket's coming and maybe a price-war is coming too". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. February 25, 1984. p. D1.
^ "Super Carnaval to triple presence". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. January 19, 1985. p. D1.
^ "Super Carnaval to expand". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. September 18, 1986. p. E4.
^ "Metro-Richelieu buys major food chain". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 5 May 1987. p. B1.
^ "Metro-Richelieu earnings remain positive". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 19 October 1991. p. B8.