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Defunct Retail => Defunct Department Stores => Topic started by: Zayre88 on December 11, 2005, 04:54:57 PM

Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: Zayre88 on December 11, 2005, 04:54:57 PM
Miracle Mart was the discount store chain created by Steinberg's supermarkets to attract more shoppers and to face other discounters that expanded in Canada like Kresge, Woolworth's and others.

The chain never became a leader of the industry because the managers were from the grocery business.  In the 80's or early 90's, the chain was renamed "M" stores in an attempt to save the company but they finally closed later along with the supermarket chain wich bankrupted.
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: Zayre88 on December 11, 2005, 04:55:28 PM
Another picture..
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: storehistoryguy on December 18, 2005, 06:13:24 PM
Here are a couple pictures of a closed one in Peoria, Illinois in 1988.

(http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/60sdiscountstores/miraclemart1.jpg)
http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/60sdiscountstores/index.html
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: storehistoryguy on December 28, 2005, 10:28:03 AM
Heres another.
(http://www.geocities.com/zayre88/m-mart1.jpg)
http://www.geocities.com/zayre88/canada.html
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: storehistoryguy on December 28, 2005, 10:28:35 AM
Logo.

(http://www.geocities.com/zayre88/m-mart2.jpg)
http://www.geocities.com/zayre88/canada.html
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: XDeSuEhTX on January 26, 2009, 04:32:32 PM
Miracle Mart. Greenfield, QC. I do believe.

(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8863/mirag8.png)
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: XDeSuEhTX on January 26, 2009, 04:42:39 PM
Montreal, QC.

(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7598/mirakr7.png)
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: XDeSuEhTX on January 26, 2009, 04:47:16 PM
After reading a bit up on this chain, I'm under the impression that Miracal Mart was owned by a chain called Steinberg's.

A model of the store.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2852367886_59b0722839_o.jpg)
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: XDeSuEhTX on January 26, 2009, 04:48:48 PM
Inside.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2851534553_39e4b633b7_o.jpg)
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: CTAmeshopper on January 26, 2009, 05:44:48 PM
Fascinating, I wonder why it's so easy to find pictures of this chain, but to  find anything on Stars is next to impossible. Maybe they got nationwide and Star's didn't.
Title: Miracle Mart
Post by: Zayre88 on January 26, 2009, 06:43:29 PM
Nice pictures, Miracle Mart is a discount chain started by Steinberg's, a supermarket chain.  They paired existing stores with Miracle Mart stores to boost traffic.  It was a very profitable move because Steinberg's owned almost every shopping centers in which they had stores.

Miracle Mart eventually became "M" stores in the late 80's. The chain was liquidated in 1992.
Title: Re: Miracle Mart
Post by: Retail_247 on April 02, 2022, 08:31:53 PM
There was another store chain under the name "Miracle Mart" in the U.S. that was completely unrelated to the Canadian one. The unrelated U.S. stores were acquired by King's.
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