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List of supermarket chains As of 2023, 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 the breakd ...

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Major chains

Empire An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outpost (military), outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a hegemony, dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the ...

operates ** Lawtons **

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

Farm Boy Farm Boy Inc. is a Canadian specialty food retailer operating in the province of Ontario. The company is based in Ottawa, Ontario. Since 2018, the company is majority owned by the Sobeys grocery chain's parent company, Empire Company Ltd., Empi ...

Foodland Foodland may refer to: Supermarket chains * FoodLand, eastern U.S. * Foodland (Canada) * Foodland (South Australia) * Foodland (Thailand) * Foodland Hawaii Others * ''Foodland'' (film), a Canadian film * Foodland Ontario, a consumer food promo ...

some CO-OP stores in Atlantic Canada **

FreshCo FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. It was launched in March 2010. As of September 2024, there were over 125 FreshCo stores. In December 2017, Sobeys Inc. announced plans to re-brand up to 64 stores in we ...

** IGA / IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, some parts of Atlantic Canada formerly CO-OP Atlantic and Saskatchewan only **

Safeway Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops, and veh ...

Sobeys Sobeys Inc. is a national supermarket chain in Canada with over 1,500 stores operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than C$25.1 bil ...

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, British ...

** Pete's Frootique **

Longo's Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc., commonly known as Longo's, is a Canadian chain of retail supermarkets and online grocer, grocery delivery service that serves the Southern Ontario area. It is controlled by Sobeys parent Empire Company in partne ...

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

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 **

Dominion A dominion was any of several largely self-governance, self-governing countries of the British Empire, once known collectively as the ''British Commonwealth of Nations''. Progressing from colonies, their degrees of self-governing colony, colon ...

**Les Entrepôts Presto **

Extra Foods Extra Foods (also branded as ''extrafoods'') was a Canadian supermarket chain, part of Loblaw Companies Limited. Founded in 1982, the chain had 106 locations at its peak in 2006 and were located through most of Western Canada. Most Extra Foods s ...

Fortinos Fortinos is a Canadian supermarket chain that was founded in Hamilton, Ontario. It operates 24 stores across the western Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited. History In 1961, Giovanni (John) Fortino, a ...

Freshmart 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 stores operate in smalle ...

**L'Intermarché ** Loblaws / Loblaw GreatFood / Loblaws CityMarket ** Maxi / Maxi & Cie **

No Frills A no-frills or no frills service or product is one for which the non-essential features have been removed to keep the price low. The term "Ruffle (sewing), frills" originally refers to a style of fabric decoration. Something offered to customers f ...

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 chai ...

** Real Atlantic Superstore **

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 (pronounced “Rick’s”). Originating in Western Canada in the l ...

** Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix ** SuperValu **

T & T Supermarket T&T Supermarket () is a Canadian Asian supermarket chain founded in Vancouver in 1993 by Jack and Cindy Lee who was the founding CEO. Cindy's eldest daughter Tina Lee succeeded her mother in 2014. In 2009, T&T Supermarket was acquired by Lobla ...

** Valu-mart ** Your Independent Grocer / Independent CityMarket ** Zehrs Markets *

Metro Inc. Metro Inc. is a Canadian supermarket chain 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 L ...

operates **

Food Basics Food Basics Ltd. is a Canadian supermarket chain owned by Metro Inc. The company operates over 144 stores throughout Canada. History Food Basics was created by A&P Canada to compete with the successful No Frills warehouse-style supermarket o ...

** Marché Adonis ** Metro / Metro Plus ** Super C * Pattison Food Group operates ** PriceSmart Foods ** Save-On-Foods **

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 five locations, three located in downtown Vancouver, ...

Regional chains

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 The ...

* Coppa's Fresh Market *Country Grocer * Calgary Co-op * Fairway Markets * Federated Co-operatives Ltd. ** Otter 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 ...

** Sherwood Co-op * Galati Market Fresh * IGA / MarketPlace IGA in British Columbia only *Fresh St. Market (British Columbia) * Grande Cheese (Greater Toronto Area) *

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

* Highland Farms * Le Jardin Mobile * Seafood City * The North West Company

Non-conventional banners with in-store grocery markets

Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world, and as of August 2024, Cos ...

Dollarama Dollarama Inc. is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Mount Royal, Quebec. Since 2009, it has been Canada's biggest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and is active in all of Canada; Onta ...

IKEA IKEA ( , ) is a Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in Sweden that designs and sells , household goods, and various related services. IKEA is owned and operated by a series of not-for-profit an ...

Jean Coutu Group The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. is a Canadian pharmacy chain based in Varennes, Quebec. The company operates over 400 franchised locations across Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick under the banners PJC Jean Coutu, PJC Clinique, and PJC Santé ...

* London Drugs *

Walmart Canada Walmart Canada is a Canadian retail corporation, discount retailer and the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S.-based multinational retail conglomerate Walmart. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and Edmonton, Alberta, it was founded on March 17, ...

Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market, Inc. (colloquially referred to as simply Whole Foods) is an American multinational supermarket chain store, chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from Hydrogenated fat, hydrogenated fats and artificia ...

*Pusateri's (downsized in 2024 to one store location plus one food service outlet) * Giant Tiger * M&M Food Market

Defunct chains

* A&P * Commisso's Food Markets * Cooper's Foods * Dominion Stores * Food City * Galati Brothers * Kmart Canada *

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 ...

* Loeb * Marché Frais * Miracle Food Mart * Overwaitea Foods *

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 ...

* Price Chopper * Sav-A-Centre *

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

* Steinberg's Supermarkets *

Sam's Club Sam's West, Inc. (doing business as Sam's Club) is a chain of membership-only warehouse club retail stores in the United States owned by Walmart. It was founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton as Sam's Wholesale Club. , Sam's ...

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

* Ultra Food & Drug * Woodward's Food Floors

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Supermarkets of Canada

Supermarkets A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. Strictly speaking, a supermarket is larger and has a wider selecti ...

Major chains

Regional chains

Non-conventional banners with in-store grocery markets

Defunct chains

See also

References