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Six Save-On-Foods locations possible for Saskatoon

Western Canada’s largest grocery retailer could bring as many as six stores to Saskatoon with the potential for a downtown location. Tyler Schroeder / Global News

Saskatoon could be home to as many as six Save-On-Foods grocery stores, the retailer’s president said at the ground-breaking ceremony for the city’s first location Tuesday.

“This is a great city and easily able to take six Save-On-Foods stores,” said company president Darrell Jones.

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Construction has started on the 33,000-square-foot South Kensington location, which is slated to open in the spring of 2017. The grocery store is expected to be an anchor tenant for the development, along with a Shoppers Drug Mart and a Scotiabank branch.

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Save-On has already committed to a future store on Cumberland Avenue and another in the Brighton neighbourhood.

The public’s response to the initial three stores will determine whether the company will add future locations, Jones said.

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A location in Saskatoon’s core is also possible.

“Downtown urban supermarkets seem to be a desire in a lot of cities,” Jones said. “If there’s something that’s presented, we’d certainly have a look at it.”

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Save-On-Foods announced a “major market expansion” into Saskatchewan in July 2015.

The B.C.-based company is part of the Jim Pattison Group, operating more than 150 stores across Western Canada.

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