Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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The 10 store chain was founded by Don Yuen in 1963 and employs over 700. The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.
Founder
Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business. Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.
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Fairway Markets Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA