BUY-LOW FOODS
Our History
Buy-Low Foods is a privately held company purchased by The Jim Pattison Group, Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995. The company was originally founded in 1966 with the first store opening at Arbutus Street & 16th Avenue in Vancouver. Buy-Low Foods is the largest food wholesale distributor to independents in Canada, servicing nearly 1,800 supermarket, convenience, and specialty produce markets. Buy-Low Foods also provides quality products at low, low prices directly to consumers in communities throughout British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Each store is unique, but shares one thing in common: a commitment to delivering great quality products at low, low food prices. Buy-Low Foods banner is committed to delivering the best prices every day on products that matter to customers the most. Buy-Low Foods is committed to delivering great value to every community through all of its retail operations.
The Buy-Low Foods Group is a proudly 100% Western Canadian privately-owned company whose core values are quality, integrity, a commitment to total customer satisfaction and recognition of the importance of our responsibility to the environment. Our mission is to contribute to the health and well-being of our communities by providing a broad range of safe, healthy, and affordable food and household products as well as relevant, convenient services. Our ultimate, overarching goal is to Add Value to people’s lives, especially our loyal customers and our dedicated associates.
Our Community Initiatives
All of our stores and staff are committed to supporting the communities in which we live and do business. We have been involved in community support for over 40 years.
On a store level, we invite our shoppers to discuss opportunities that we can get involved in together to support fundraising and projects.
We are involved in assisting schools in adding equipment, protection of historic sites, providing meeting rooms for volunteer organizations, holding hot dog sales for sports teams, school bands, and local clubs.
As a company, each year we make a major contribution to Variety - the children’s charity through our programs, "Kids in the Park", "Variety Vintage Market" and, our annual Retailer/Supplier Golf Tournament.
We are committed to the communities we serve.