Remember Becker;s?
There was a Becker;s milk and convenience store a block down from my primary school, St. Joseph's on Simcoe Street North in a plaza near Beatrice Street that is no longer there. Becker's was ubiquitous in Oshawa.
A typical Becker's store during the 1970's.:
And then there was a young Wayne Gretzky selling GWG jeans:
Long before WalMart, there was Woolco, and Woolworths:
And finally you had Eddie Shack, the Toronto Maple Leafs star selling pop for the Pop Shoppe:
Those were the days!