{"id":101133,"date":"2017-06-01T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/?p=101133\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:25:38","slug":"53-new-walmart-food-hypermarkets-in-quebec-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/53-new-walmart-food-hypermarkets-in-quebec-since-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"53 New Walmart Food Hypermarkets In Quebec Since 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101130\" src=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/w001-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/w001-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/w001-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/w001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/w001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Two decades after opening its first store in Canada, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.ca\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Walmart<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0started opening its first Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s \u201cSupercentre\u201d in 2011, which include\u00a0a quite large\u00a0grocery store (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesaffaires.com\/secteurs-d-activite\/commerce-de-detail\/walmart-les-premiers-supercentre-ouvriront--la-semaine-prochaine\/532537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Les Affaires<\/a>). Since then, its network of <strong>Supercentre<\/strong> store\u00a0has grown steadily, attaining today 53 <strong>Supercentres<\/strong> out of a total of 71 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.ca\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Walmart<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0stores, a ratio that continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This means an average of 10 new Supercentres per year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2017\/05\/25\/walmart-troisieme-en-alimentation-au-canada-1\">According to the Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>, since\u00a0<strong>Walmart<\/strong>\u00a0started transforming\u00a0its current stores into\u00a0<strong>Supercentres<\/strong>, the company makes $900 million in additional revenue\u00a0per year\u00a0and now ranks third in Canada in terms of food distribution.<\/p>\n<p>As the <strong>DepQu\u00e9bec Geomap*<\/strong> shows &#8211; for the first time showing a complete view of all stores &#8211; the choice of the new hypermarkets in Quebec have been carefully planned to reach the largest possible pool of consumers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>22 in the Montr\u00e9al region<\/li>\n<li>7 in the Quebec City region<\/li>\n<li>4 in the Outaouais region<\/li>\n<li>2 in Sherbrooke, 1 in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, 2 in the Lac St-Jean, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101127\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/geomap-depqc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/carte-supercentre.jpg\" alt=\"Supercentres Walmart au Qu\u00e9bec\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/carte-supercentre.jpg 800w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/carte-supercentre-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/carte-supercentre-400x223.jpg 400w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/carte-supercentre-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new <strong>Walmart Supercentres<\/strong> cover the entire territory of Quebec, including remote areas such as Abitibi, Lac-St-Jean, Bas-Saint-Laurent and Beauce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Supercentres<\/strong> have an impressive food section including fruits and vegetables, meat counters, deli meats, bakeries, and take-out food. They include both goods normally available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.ca\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Walmart<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and a full grocery store (fruits, vegetables, meat, fish and bakery). They are recognizable by their two distinct entrances. However once inside, no wall separates the food (20% of the space) from the general merchandise (80%).<\/p>\n<p>This expansion, coupled with the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/chain-profiles\/costco\/\"><strong>Costco<\/strong><\/a>, has put great pressure on the three large Quebec food chains (<a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/chain-profiles\/loblaw\/\"><strong>Loblaw<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/chain-profiles\/sobeys-quebec\/\"><strong>Sobeys<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/banner-profiles\/metro-and-metro-plus\/\"><strong>Metro<\/strong><\/a>), given the slow growth of the population. \u201cTheir profit margins have been shaken. It is not that we are looking for\u00a0a price war, it is our mission [to have low prices],\u201d says Chantal Glenisson, who observes <em>\u201cmore aggressiveness in circulars\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cmore loyalty cards\u201d<\/em> (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/affaires.lapresse.ca\/economie\/commerce-de-detail\/201403\/17\/01-4748345-walmart-20-ans-au-canada-un-grand-bouleversement.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Presse<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/chain-profiles\/sobeys-quebec\/\"><strong>Sobeys<\/strong><\/a>, among others, is experiencing some market adjustment issues: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/la-tribune\/affaires\/201604\/05\/01-4967847-offensive-de-la-chaine-iga-pour-baisser-les-prix.php\">we recently saw a price reduction campaign<\/a><\/strong> in its IGA supermarkets and<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/727191\/sobeys-emplois-suppression\">\u00a0more recently, a significant staff downsizing.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is possible that this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.ca\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Walmart<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0growth has also affected the convenience store market share as well, on a much smaller scale though than competing supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, consumers stand out as winners: they end up with <strong>more choices<\/strong>, <strong>better prices<\/strong> and <strong>more dynamic chains<\/strong> that can no longer take anything for granted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Note: To view the <strong>Walmart Supercentres<\/strong> on the <strong>DepQuebec GeoMap<\/strong>, click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/geomap-depqc\/\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and once in the map, enter &#8220;supercentre&#8221; in the &#8220;Title&#8221; field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades after opening its first store in Canada, Walmart\u00a0started opening its first Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s \u201cSupercentre\u201d in 2011, which include\u00a0a quite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":101136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,1750],"tags":[1310,1412,1430,1024],"class_list":["post-101133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsdep","category-profiles","tag-competition-en-2","tag-supercenters","tag-walmart-en-2","tag-walmart-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/supercentre-regionmontreal2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}