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BI-LO is Australia's own discount supermarket retailer, offering a wide range of fresh foods and groceries at consistently low prices and good, friendly service.

BI-LO operates more than 190 stores nationally and employs around 15,000 people in its stores throughout Australia.

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History

Australia?s first BI-LO store was opened at Stirling in South Australia?s Adelaide Hills by John Weekes in the late 1970s.

The Weekes family originally owned two hardware outlets in Stirling and Aldgate and later converted these stores to supermarkets.

By the early 1980s BI-LO was established as South Australia?s cheapest grocer.

Almost a decade after the first store opened, BI-LO was operating 28 supermarkets in South Australia and generating one third of metropolitan Adelaide?s supermarket sales.           

In 1987, BI-LO joined the Coles Group

Shortly after, the New South Wales based discount Shoeys stores were acquired by Coles Group and re-named BI-LO. At this time, BI-LO was operating 62 stores throughout South Australia and New South Wales.

Another significant milestone in BI-LO?s history took place in 1998 with the purchase of three Northern Territory supermarkets in Darwin and Alice Springs.