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Steinberg's (renamed Steinberg in 1961) was a large family-owned Canadian grocery store chain that mainly operated in the province of Quebec and later Ontario. In addition to its flagship supermarket chain, the company operated several subsidiaries across the country.
Samuel Steinberg was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist whose drive and vision transformed his mother’s unassuming grocery store, Steinberg’s Supermarket, into the largest grocery chain in Quebec.
14 Dis 2023 · Steinberg's (renamed Steinberg in 1961) was a large family-owned Canadian grocery store chain that mainly operated in the province of Quebec and later Ontario. In addition to its flagship supermarket chain, the company operated several subsidiaries across the country.
24 Dis 2008 · There’s something particularly iconic about supermarkets, especially in North America, where they first emerged in the 1940s and have a good half-century of history behind them.
Sam Steinberg revolutionized grocery shopping in Quebec by founding the first supermarket in Montreal in the late 1940s. In the 1950s, the Steinberg’s chain came to dominate the Quebec market and expanded into Ontario and New Brunswick.
In 1953, Steinberg entered the real estate market when it established a subsidiary called Ivanhoe, Inc., a real estate--development company. Meanwhile, Steinberg's core grocery division began to experiment with the sale of small nonfood items such as toiletries, cosmetics, housewares, and hardware.
Originally known as Steinberg’s Supermarket, Ida’s five sons grew the business from its modest storefront on Boulevard Saint-Laurent into the largest supermarket chain in Québec. During its peak, Steinberg was so popular in the province that many French speakers referred to grocery…
