The massive department stores operated on a concessionaire mode, where individual merchants ran separate departments, and some locations were even conjoined with a Food City or IGA grocery store. However, a group formed by the chain's concessionaires (Allied Towers Merchants Ltd.) purchased the 13 Canadian stores following the bankruptcy. Between 1965 and 1967, grocer Oshawa Wholesale (which later became Oshawa Group) gradually acquired Towers and converted its Rite-Way discount stores to the Towers brand. Eventually, as leases expired, the concessionaire model for which the Towers chain was known was phased out, and many stores were paired with supermarkets. At its peak, Towers operated stores in neighbourhoods throughout the city, including at Dufferin and Dupont, Carlaw and Gerrard, Jane and Finch, High Park, Kipling, and The Queensway, as well as other Ontario cities like Waterloo and Kitchener.