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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 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 pu ...
***Bulkley Valley Wholesale *** PriceSmart Foods ***
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 ...
*** Urban Fare *
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 **
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**Les Entrepôts Presto ** Extra Foods **
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 **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' ...
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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 ...
**Shop Easy Foods ** Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix ** SuperValu ** T & T Supermarket ** Valu-mart **Wholesale Club / Club Entrepôt ** Your Independent Grocer / Independent CityMarket ** Zehrs Markets *
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 ** Marché Adonis **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 ...
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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 ** Sobeys **
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 (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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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 ...
**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 ...
: ** Calgary Co-op **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 *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

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Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation (Trade name, 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 store, big-box retail stores (warehouse c ...
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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 * Jean Coutu Group *
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 ...
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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 disc ...
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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 *Lady York * Loeb *Lofood * Marché Frais * Miracle Food Mart *Montemurro (North-Western Quebec and North-Eastern Ontario) *Mr. Grocer *N&D SuperMarkets (Windsor, had S&H Green Stamps) *OK Economy * Overwaitea Foods *Penner Foods (Manitoba) * Piggly Wiggly *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 f ...
*TomBoy (Manitoba, Sask. and Alberta) * Ultra Food & Drug * Valdi *White's Supermarkets (Winnipeg) * Woodward's Food Floors


See also

*
List of Canadian stores This is a list of Canadian stores, grouped by type. Alcohol and cannabis stores * Cannabis ** BC Cannabis Stores **Canna Cabana **Choom Cannabis Co. **Dutch Love ** Discounted Cannabis **FIKA ** Fire & Flower **Four20 Premium Market **The Hu ...
* List of supermarket chains in North America *
List of supermarket chains in South America This is a list of supermarket chains in South America. Argentina * La Anónima * Carrefour * Coto * Dia % * Disco-Jumbo-Vea ( Cencosud) * La Genovesa * Comodín * Supermercado Dar * Buenos Días * Vital * Maxiconsumo * Diarco * Libertad * Emil ...


References

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