This is a list of supermarket chains in Canada. For supermarkets operating in other countries, see ''

List of supermarket chains As of September 2020, this is a list of supermarket chains, past and present, which operate or have branches in more than one country, whether under the parent corporation's name or another name. For supermarkets that are only in one country, see ...

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Major chains

*Georgia Main Food Group operates: **Fresh St. Market ** IGA / MarketPlace IGA in British Columbia only **

London Drugs London Drugs Limited is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Richmond, British Columbia. As of June 2021, the chain has 78 stores in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. In addition to pharmacy services ...

Jim Pattison Group The Jim Pattison Group is a Canadian conglomerate based in Vancouver. In a recent survey by the Financial Post, the firm was ranked as Canada's 62nd largest company. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, is the chairman, CEO, and sole ...

operates **Buy-Low Foods ***Budget Foods ***Buy-Low Foods ***Nesters Market ***Meinhardt Fine Foods ***Quality Foods ***Shop n' Save ***AG Foods ***Choices Markets ***Nature’s Fare Markets **

Overwaitea Food Group The Overwaitea Food Group is an operator of supermarkets, based in Langley, British Columbia. It is owned by the Jim Pattison Group. Most stores are under the Save-On-Foods banner, which it launched in 1982. On March 8, 1915, Robert C. Kidd pur ...

***Bulkley Valley Wholesale ***

PriceSmart Foods PriceSmart Foods is a chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Overwaitea Food Group, which is owned by the Jim Pattison Group. PriceSmart shares the same brands and rewards card system ...

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Save-On-Foods Save-On-Foods is a chain of supermarkets located across Western Canada, owned by the Pattison Food Group. Stores carry both standard brands and private label brands, such as Western Family. Many stores have a pharmacy, and some locations prov ...

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Urban Fare Urban Fare is a supermarket chain located in British Columbia. It is a subsidiary of the Overwaitea Food Group, which, in turn, is owned by the Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group. The chain has six locations, four located in downtown Vancouver ...

Loblaw Companies Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian retailer encompassing corporate and franchise supermarkets operating under 22 regional and market-segment banners (including Loblaws), as well as pharmacies, banking and apparel. Loblaw operates a private ...

operates: **Atlantic Cash & Carry **

Atlantic Superstore Atlantic Superstore is a Canadian supermarket chain. The chain operates 54 stores in the Maritimes of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. It is owned by George Weston Limited through Loblaw Companies Limited, and operates unde ...

**Axep **Bloor Street Market **

Dominion The term ''Dominion'' is used to refer to one of several self-governing nations of the British Empire. "Dominion status" was first accorded to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the Irish Free State at the 1926 ...

**Les Entrepôts Presto **

Extra Foods Extra Foods (also branded as ''extrafoods'') is a supermarket chain, part of Loblaw Companies Limited. There are 10 stores in Canada, mostly in Western Canada. Most Extra Foods stores are smaller than its sister chain, Real Canadian Superstore, ...

Fortinos Fortinos is a Canadian supermarket chain that was founded in Hamilton, Ontario. It operates 23 stores across the western Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited. History In 1961, Italian immigrant steelwork ...

Freshmart Freshmart (styled as freshmart) is a chain of supermarkets based in Ontario, Canada. It is a unit of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food distributor. Background Freshmart stores are typically operated by a franchise owner. The st ...

**L'Intermarché ** Loblaws / Loblaw GreatFood / Loblaws CityMarket **Lucky Dollar Foods ** Maxi / Maxi & Cie **NG Cash & Carry ** No Frills **

Provigo Provigo is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada, consisting of over 300 stores and franchises throughout the province. It operates a retailing chain of stores and distribution warehouses. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited. The chain ...

Real Canadian Superstore Real Canadian Superstore is a chain of supermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies. Its name is often shortened to Superstore, or, less commonly, RCSS. Originating in Western Canada in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the b ...

**Shop Easy Foods ** Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix ** SuperValu **

T & T Supermarket T&T Supermarket () is a Canadian supermarket chain that sells primarily Asian foods. The company is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia. In 1993, the first T&T was opened in Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown, a shopping centre in the Me ...

Valu-mart Valu-mart (styled as valu-mart) is a chain of supermarkets based in Ontario, Canada. It is a unit of National Grocers, itself a unit of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food distributor. Stores are typically operated by a franchise ...

**Wholesale Club / Club Entrepôt ** Your Independent Grocer / Independent CityMarket **

Zehrs Markets Zehrmart Inc. (doing business as Zehrs Markets or simply Zehrs ), is a Canadian supermarket chain in southern Ontario. The chain has 43 locations and is a part of Loblaw Companies Limited which purchased the Zehrs chain in the mid-1970s. Hist ...

Metro Inc. Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw ...

operates **Les 5 Saisons **

Food Basics Food Basics Ltd. is a Canadian supermarket chain owned by Metro Inc. The company operates over 130 stores throughout Ontario. History Food Basics was created by A&P Canada to compete with the successful No Frills warehouse-style supermarket ...

Marché Adonis Marché Adonis is a supermarket chain operating in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec. In 2011, Metro Inc. acquired a majority stake (55.5%) (CAD$153.8 million) in Marché Adonis. History A ...

**Marché AMI **Marché Extra **Marché Richelieu ** Metro / Metro Plus ** Super C *

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Lawtons Lawtons is a Canadian drug store chain owned by the Sobeys Group of Stellarton, Nova Scotia with a head office located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is a participant in the voluntary Scanner Price Accuracy Code managed by the Retail Counc ...

Needs Convenience Needs Convenience is a chain of convenience stores throughout Atlantic Canada. The Needs logo and trademark are owned by Sobeys. Individual stores are operated by independent franchising, franchisees. Sobeys is the exclusive supplier to the chain. ...

** Foodland some CO-OP stores in Atlantic Canada ** FreshCo ** IGA / IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, some parts of Atlantic Canada formerly CO-OP Atlantic and Saskatchewan only **Marché Bonichoix **Marché Tradition **Rachelle-Béry **

Safeway Safeway is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, d ...

Sobeys Sobeys Inc. is the second largest supermarket chain in Canada, with over 1,500 stores operating across Canada under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales o ...

Thrifty Foods Thrifty Foods (often shortened to Thrifty's) is a chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. Background Thrifty Foods was founded by Alex Campbell and Ernie Skinner in 1977 when the first store was opened in Victoria's Fairfie ...

** Pete's Frootique **

Farm Boy Farm Boy Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the province of Ontario. The company is based in Ottawa, Ontario. The retailer markets itself as selling fresh produce and food products, with an emphasis in their branding on farm-to-table. ...

Longo's Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc., known simply as Longo's is a chain of retail supermarkets and grocery delivery service serving Southern Ontario, Canada, controlled by Sobeys parent Empire Company in partnership with the founding Longo fami ...

(Sobeys has purchased 51% of Longo's, with an option to buy the remaining shares within the next 10 years)

Regional chains

* 49th Parallel Grocery * Ambrosia Natural Foods *Asian Food Centre * Askew's Foods * Avril (Health Supermarket) *Bruno’s Fine Foods *Centra Food Market *Coleman's *

Co-op Atlantic Co-op Atlantic is a Canadian collectively owned consumers' cooperative. The cooperative is legally owned by its members and controlled by a board of directors. The head offices of Co-op Atlantic are located in Moncton, New Brunswick. History Th ...

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**Valu Foods **Village Food Stores * Coppa's Fresh Market *Country Grocer *

Fairway Markets Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The ten store chain was founded by Don Yuen in 1963 and employs over 700. The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethni ...

*Family Foods *

Federated Co-operatives Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), operating as Co-op, is a co-operative federation providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. It was established in 1944 after a series of amalgamations of smaller coop ...

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Calgary Co-op Calgary Co-operative Association Limited (commonly referred to as Calgary Co-op) is a retail cooperative operating in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. History Opened in the 1940s as a food store operated by the United Farmers of Alberta in Calgary and ...

**Heritage Co-op (Western Manitoba) **North Central Co-op **Red River Co-op **

Saskatoon Co-op Saskatoon Co-operative Association Limited (commonly referred to as Saskatoon Co-op) is a retail cooperative. A member of Federated Co-operatives, it is headquartered in Saskatoon and has operations in the city and surrounding municipalities Pre ...

* Foodex *FoodFare *Fresh City Market *Freson Bros. *Galleria Supermarkets *Goodness Me! * Grande Cheese *

H Mart H Mart ( ko, H 마트 or ) is an American supermarket chain of Asian supermarkets operated by the Hanahreum Group, headquartered in Lyndhurst, Bergen County (버건군), New Jersey. The chain has 84 stores throughout the United States, operat ...

Highland Farms Highland Farms Inc. is a Canadian family-owned regional supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area. Highland Farms was founded in 1963 by brothers Charles Coppa and John Louis "Louie" Coppa, with their first location at 1558 Queen Street Wes ...

*Kim Phat * Le Jardin Mobile *L&M Markets (Hometown Grocers Co-op) *Lalumière Bonanza *Le Marché Esposito *Le Marché Végétarien/Les Arpents Verts *Lococo's *Lucky Supermarket *Marche Adoni

*Mike Dean Local Groc

*Nations Fresh Food *Nature's Emporium *

The North West Company The North West Company is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, and several other countries and US terri ...

**Northern **NorthMart *Organic Garage *Panchvati Supermarket *P.A.T. Mart *Planet Organic *Pomme Natural Market *Rabba Fine Foods *Quality Foods *Starsky Fine Foods *Sungiven Foods *Sunterra Market *Supermarché PA (5 stores) *SuperValu *TaiKo Supermarket *Vince's Market *Vincenzo's *Yummy Market

Non-conventional banners with in-store grocery markets

Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation (doing business as Costco Wholesale and also known simply as Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box retail stores (warehouse club). As of 2022, Costco i ...

Dollarama Dollarama is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Montreal. Since 2009 it is Canada's largest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and has a presence in every province of Canada; Ontario has ...

IKEA IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been t ...

Jean Coutu Group The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. is a Canadian drugstore chain headquartered in Varennes, Quebec. It has more than 400 franchised locations in New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec under the PJC Jean Coutu, PJC Clinique, and PJC Santé banners. Th ...

Walmart Canada Walmart Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Walmart which is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. It was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company. Originally consisting of disco ...

Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an upscale American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives. A US ...

*Pusateri's * Giant Tiger * M&M Food Market

Defunct chains

* A&P *Best for Less *The Barn Fruit Markets *Canadian Tire (short-lived rollout) * Commisso's Food Markets * Cooper's Foods *Darrigo's *DiPietro's * Dominion Stores *Dutch Boy *Eatons Supermarket (Winnipeg) *Econo-Mart *Food Barn (Manitoba) * Food City *Food for Less (Calgary) * Galati Brothers *Garden Market IGA *Gordons * Hudson's Bay Company Grocery (Winnipeg) *Kauffmans (Winnipeg) *

Kmart Canada Kmart Corporation ( , doing business as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American retail company that owns a chain of big box department stores. The company is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States. The company was inc ...

'' *Knechtel Foods *

Knob Hill Farms Knob Hill Farms was a supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada that operated from 1953 to 2001 and was owned by businessman Steve Stavro. It began as a single produce store in the east end of Toronto in 1953 before growing ...

*Lady York * Loeb *Lofood * Marché Frais *

Miracle Food Mart Miracle Food Mart was a supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada, owned by Steinberg's, a Quebec-based retailer in the 1970s and 1980s. Steinberg purchased the Canadian division of Grand Union, with 38 stores, in June 1959 to make its entrance int ...

*Montemurro (North-Western Quebec and North-Eastern Ontario) *Mr. Grocer *N&D SuperMarkets (Windsor, had S&H Green Stamps) *OK Economy *

Overwaitea Foods Overwaitea Foods was a regional chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. On March 8, 1915, Robert C. Kidd purchased a store at 746 Columbia Street in New Westminster, British Columbia. He developed several innovative merchandi ...

*Penner Foods (Manitoba) *

Piggly Wiggly Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the American Southern and Midwestern regions run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. Its first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable f ...

*Price Chopper *Red & White *Red Rooster * Sav-A-Centre *

SaveEasy SaveEasy (formerly ''Atlantic Save-Easy'') was a chain of small retail grocery store franchises in the Atlantic Provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, owned by Loblaw Companies. The c ...

*Steinberg's Supermarkets *Super Centre *

Target Canada Target Canada Co. was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary was formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases fr ...

*TomBoy (Manitoba, Sask. and Alberta) * Ultra Food & Drug * Valdi *White's Supermarkets (Winnipeg) * Woodward's Food Floors

References

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Supermarkets of Canada

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Major chains

Regional chains

Non-conventional banners with in-store grocery markets

Defunct chains

See also

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