Discount store Retail Ranking; June 2014), operates more than 10,121 discount stores or discount shops worldwide. Australia has four main discount shops including Aldi, Big W, Kmart, and Target, plus in the Sydney region only, Victoria's Basement. Woolworths entered Canada in the 1920s, but the stores were converted to the Foot Locker, Champs Sports and other stores by 1994. Kresge's entered Canada in 1929. Zellers was founded in 1931, and was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1978. Giant Tiger opened its first store in Ottawa in 1961, modeled on Woolworths. Winners was founded in 1982 in Toronto, and sells off-price
Farmer Jack were converted into A&P's Food Basics format in an attempt to compete with discount chains such as Save-A-Lot. Less than a year later, nine were closed while the other—a new-build store in Dearborn Heights—was converted into a Farmer Jack. Simultaneously, the closure of 15 Farmer Jacks was announced; four more closures were announced later in the year. In early 2005, A&P placed Farmer Jack for sale, seeking an estimated $250M for 71 core stores; the remaining locations were offered individually. Later that year, workers approved wage cuts conditional on a sale to Spartan Stores—which was led by several former Farmer