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It looks like you visited a metro store. Time to segue into a random related Toronto fact:
Many stores in Toronto were under the brand name "Dominion" that were taken over by metro and rebranded around 15 years ago, some of which were A&P before. The rest of this info is from this wikipedia page, and it's kind of crazy:
It started with one store in Toronto in 1919, co-founded by two Americans including an A&P store manager. It grew to 20 stores within a year but sold 18 of them to rival Loblaws. They tried to take over Loblaws but failed due to the Great Depression. Then the brand got sold off in 1939 to Argus Corp., then by A&P Canada in 1985. Then by Metro in 2005.
Interestingly, the remaining stores called "Dominion" in the Maritimes of Canada are now Loblaws' chains leasing the name from Metro Inc.