Major chains

• Costco
  Costco
  Costco Wholesale Corporation is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States. it is the third largest retailer in the United States, where it originated, and the ninth largest in the world...
  
  

• Jim Pattison Group
  Jim Pattison Group
  The Jim Pattison Group is Canada’s third largest privately held company and, in a recent survey by the Financial Post, The Jim Pattison Group was ranked as Canada’s 62nd largest company. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur is the Chairman, President, CEO, and sole owner of the Jim Pattison...
  
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  • Bulkley Valley Wholesale
  • Buy-Low Foods
  • Cooper's Foods
  • Nesters Markets
  • Overwaitea Foods
    Overwaitea foods
    Overwaitea Foods is 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 merchandising techniques to attract customers to his store...
    
    
  • PriceSmart Foods
  • Save-On-Foods
    Save-On-Foods
    Save On Foods is a chain of supermarkets located across the Western Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Founded in 1982, it is a subsidiary of the Overwaitea Food Group, which, in turn, is owned by the Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group....
    
    
  • Urban Fare

• Loblaw Companies
  Loblaw Companies
  Loblaw Companies Limited is the largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,400 supermarkets operating under a variety of regional banners, including the namesake Loblaws. LCL is headquartered in Brampton, Ontario...
  
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  • Atlantic Cash & Carry
  • Atlantic Superstore
    Atlantic Superstore
    Atlantic Superstore is a Canadian supermarket chain of 54 stores in the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island...
    
    
  • Atlantic SuperValu
  • Axep
  • Dominion (in Newfoundland & Labrador)
    Dominion Stores (Newfoundland and Labrador)
    Dominion is the primary brand name of the major-market supermarkets of Loblaw Companies Limited in Newfoundland. The Dominion brand name is used under licence from Metro Inc., which discontinued its use of that banner in the rest of Canada in late 2008 and has no other affiliation with the...
    
    
  • Entrepôts Presto / Club Entrepôt
  • Extra Foods
    Extra Foods
    Extra Foods is a Canadian supermarket chain, part of Loblaw Companies Limited. It operates 72 stores in Western Canada. Most Extra Foods stores are smaller than its sister chain, The Real Canadian Superstore, and most locations are in smaller, rural communities...
    
    
  • Fortinos
    Fortinos
    Fortinos is a Canadian supermarket chain operating 20 stores in Ontario . It is part of Loblaw Companies Limited.- History :In 1961, immigrant steelworker John Fortino opened his first Fortinos store in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1972, John took on seven partners and opened a second store on Hamilton...
    
    
  • Freshmart
    Freshmart
    Freshmart is a chain of supermarkets based in Ontario, Canada. It is a unit of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food distributor.Freshmart stores are typically operated by a franchise owner...
    
    
  • L'intermarché
  • Loblaws/Loblaw Great Food
    Loblaws
    Loblaws is a supermarket chain with over 70 stores in Canada, headquartered in Brampton, with stores across Ontario and Quebec. Loblaws is a division of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food distributor...
    
    
  • Lucky Dollar Foods
  • Maxi
    Maxi (supermarket)
    Maxi is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada. It is a subsidiary of Loblaw Companies and the largest of Loblaws' Quebec supermarket chains. Maxi is the Quebec equivalent of No Frills, a chain of franchised discount grocery stores outside Quebec, except that Maxi stores are company owned. Over...
    
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  • NG Cash & Carry
  • No Frills
    No Frills (grocery store)
    No Frills is a chain of deep discount supermarkets in Canada, owned by Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited...
    
    
  • Provigo
    Provigo
    Provigo is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada, consisting of over 300 stores and franchises throughout the province. A majority of the stores are located in the Montreal area. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited. Provigo is similar to Ontario's Your Independent Grocer/Zehrs banners, as...
    
    
  • The Real Canadian Superstore/Loblaw Superstore
    Real Canadian Superstore
    Real Canadian Superstore is a chain of hypermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies. Its name is often shortened to RCSS or Superstore....
    
    
    • Real Canadian Liquorstore
      Real Canadian Liquorstore
      The Real Canadian Liquorstore is an Albertan chain of liquor stores owned by Loblaws subsidiary Westfair Foods. The name is similar to that of the Real Canadian Superstore, a hypermarket chain also owned by Loblaws...
      
      
  • Real Canadian Wholesale Club
    Real Canadian Wholesale Club
    Wholesale Club is a chain of warehouse clubs owned by Loblaw Companies with locations across Canada. Unlike its main competitor Costco, the stores are open to the public and do not require a membership to make purchases....
    
    
  • Red & White Food Stores
  • SaveEasy
    SaveEasy
    SaveEasy is 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 Limited...
    
     (formerly Atlantic SaveEasy)
  • Shop Easy Foods
  • SuperValu
    SuperValu (Canada)
    Super Valu is a chain of franchised and associated grocery stores in Canada that operates primarily in the western part of the country. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, many Super Valu stores were created from former Loblaws stores...
    
    
  • T&T
    T & T Supermarket
    T & T Supermarket is a Canadian supermarket chain which sells primarily Chinese and Asian foods. The supermarket chain is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia. In 1993, the first T & T was opened in Burnaby's Metropolis shopping centre in Metro Vancouver.With rapid expansion, T & T is now...
    
    
  • Valu-mart
    Valu-mart
    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....
    
    
  • Your Independent Grocer
    Your Independent Grocer
    Your Independent Grocer is a supermarket chain based in the Canadian province of Ontario. 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 owner. Many of the stores were originally...
    
    
  • Zehrs
    Zehrs Markets
    Zehrs Markets, or simply Zehrs, is a chain of grocery stores located in southern Ontario, Canada. The chain consists of 43 locations and is a part of Loblaw Companies Limited. The first store was established by Emory Zehr and his sons in Kitchener in 1950...
    
    , operating under the Zehrs Markets, Zehrs Food Plus and Zehrs Great Food banners

• Metro Inc. operates
  • Food Basics
    Food Basics
    Food Basics is a discount Canadian supermarket chain owned by Metro Inc. and with all stores within Ontario. It was created by A&P Canada to compete with the successful No Frills warehouse-style supermarket operated by Loblaw Companies...
    
    
  • Les 5 Saisons
  • Marché Richelieu
  • Metro, Metro Plus
  • Super C
  • Supermarchés GP

• Safeway Inc.
  Safeway Inc.
  Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...
  
  

• Sobeys
  Sobeys
  Sobeys is the second largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,300 supermarkets operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than $14 billion CAD in 2009...
  
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  • Bonichoix
  • Food Town
  • Foodland
    Foodland (Canada)
    Foodland is a Canadian chain of grocery stores found mostly in rural New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Ontario, owned by Sobeys. They range in size from...
    
    
  • FreshCo
  • IGA and IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan only
  • Price Chopper
    Price Chopper (Canada)
    FreshCo. is a Canadian chain of discount food stores owned by Sobeys Inc..The first eight FreshCo stores launched on May 12, 2010 in Brampton and Mississauga, Ontario...
    
    
  • Rachelle-Béry
  • Sobeys
    Sobeys
    Sobeys is the second largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,300 supermarkets operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than $14 billion CAD in 2009...
    
    
  • Thrifty Foods
    Thrifty Foods
    Thrifty Foods is a chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded by Alex Campbell and Ernie Skinner in 1977 when the first store was opened in Victoria's Fairfield neighbourhood. As of October 2011, the chain operates . It is the largest supermarket chain on Vancouver...
    
    
  • Tradition Markets

Regional chains

• Avril (Health Supermarket)
• Calgary Co-op
  Calgary Co-op
  Calgary Co-operative Association Limited is a retail cooperative operating in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Co-op Atlantic
  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...
  
  
  • ValuFoods
• Country Grocer
• Fairway Markets
  Fairway Markets
  Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.- External links :* ], B.C.]...
  
  
• Farm Boy
  Farm Boy
  Farm Boy is an Ottawa, Canada based Eastern Ontario regional supermarket chain that sells primarily fresh produce, baked goods, organic foods, dairy, deli, meat, fish and some prepared products including a private label line...
  
  
• Foodex
  Foodex
  Foodex is a chain of locally-owned independent grocery stores in rural areas of Newfoundland and Labrador, owned by Atlantic Grocery Distributors Limited of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador.-Locations:This list is incomplete, source:...
  
  
• Galati Market Fresh
  Galati Market Fresh
  Galati Fresh Market is a small chain of supermarkets in Toronto. The chain emerged out of the Galati Brothers. There are three locations currently in existence:* 5845 Leslie Street south of Steeles* 4734 Jane Street, North York - near Steeles Avenue West...
  
  
• H Mart
  H Mart
  H Mart is an American supermarket chain operated by the Hanahreum Group, headquartered in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. The chain, with locations throughout the United States, specializes in providing Asian foods. The chain operates Super H Mart stores...
  
  
• Herbies for Drug and Food
  Katz Group of Companies
  Katz Group of Companies operates over 1,800 pharmacies in Canada and the United States. It is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Daryl Katz is chairman of the Katz Group of Companies.- Katz Group Canada :Katz Group Canada Ltd...
  
  
• Highland Farms
• Hy & Zel's
• L&M Markets (Hometown Grocers Co-op)
• Le Marché Végétarien
• Longo's (Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc.)
• Marché Frais
  Market Fresh
  Market Fresh is a Gatineau, Quebec-based supermarket chain which is mainly specialized in fresh food products including fruits, vegetables, dairy and breads as well as prepared-products including some meat....
  
  
• MarketPlace IGA (Owned by H. Y. Louie Group)
• The North West Company
  The North West Company
  The North West Company is a grocery and merchandise store in remote communities across northern Canada and Alaska. Through its subsidiary, Cost-U-Less stores it also operates in the US territories of Guam, The CNMI, and American Samoa and in the Caribbean....
  
  
  • Northern
  • NorthMart
• Quality Foods
• Saskatoon Co-op
  Saskatoon Co-op
  Saskatoon Co-operative Association Limited is a retail cooperative operating in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.-Present Operations:...
  
  
• Sherwood Co-op
  Sherwood Co-op
  Sherwood Co-operative Association Limited is a retail cooperative operating in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.-Present Operations:...
  
  
• Sunterra Market
• TaiKo Supermarket
• Whole Foods Market
  Whole Foods Market
  Whole Foods Market is a foods supermarket chain based in Austin, Texas which emphasizes "natural and organic products." The company has been ranked among the most socially responsible businesses and placed third on the U.S...
  
  
• Choices Market
  Choices Market
  Choices Markets is a Vancouver-based supermarket chain that is Western Canada's largest retailer of natural and organic food.The chain has eight stores: seven in Metro Vancouver, including one rice bakery, and one location in Kelowna. Choices was founded in December 1990 by brothers Wayne and Lloyd...
  
  

Non-conventional banners with in-store grocery markets

• Giant Tiger/Tigre Géant
  Giant Tiger
  Giant Tiger Stores Limited is Canada’s third-largest chain of discount stores . Following the 2006 acquisition of Zellers and its parent, the Hudson's Bay Company, by American entrepreneur Jerry Zucker, Giant Tiger became the largest Canadian-owned discount retailer...
  
  
• Jean Coutu Pharmacy
  Jean Coutu Group
  The Jean Coutu Group Inc. is a Canadian drugstore chain headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec. It has more than 360 franchised locations in New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec under the PJC Jean Coutu, PJC Clinique and PJC Santé Beauté banners...
  
  
• London Drugs
  London Drugs
  London Drugs is a chain of Canadian retail stores with headquarters in Richmond, British Columbia. Its primary focus is on pharmaceuticals, electronics, housewares and cosmetics, with a limited selection of grocery items...
  
  
• Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix
  Shoppers Drug Mart
  Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation is Canada's largest pharmacy chain with more than 1,241 stores operating under the names Shoppers Drug Mart in nine provinces and two territories and Pharmaprix in Quebec as well as in Hawkesbury, Ontario....
  
  
• Wal-Mart Supercentres
  Wal-Mart Canada
  Wal-Mart Canada Corp. is the Canadian unit of Walmart and was founded in 1994 in Mississauga, Ontario with the purchase of the Canadian Woolco stores from Woolworth Canada....
  
  
• Zellers
  Zellers
  Zellers Inc. is Canada's second-largest chain of mass merchandise discount stores, with locations in communities across Canada. A subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company , it has 273 locations across the country....
  
  

Defunct chains

• A&P
  A&P Canada
  A&P Canada was a Canadian supermarket company from 1927 to 2009.In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec....
  
  
• The Barn Fruit Markets
• Commisso's Food Markets
  Commisso's Food Markets
  Commisso’s Food Markets was a Canadian supermarket chain based in Beamsville, Ontario. Operating under Commisso’s Grocery Distributors Limited, the chain was part of one of the largest independently owned grocery and food distribution chains in southern Ontario...
  
  
• Darrigo's
• Dominion Stores (historical)
• Dutch Boy
• Econo-Mart
• Food City
  Food City (Canada)
  Food City or Food Town were Canadian supermarkets operated by the Toronto-based Oshawa Group. The stores were often paired with department store chain Towers.A typical Food City store had:* Meats/Deli* Produce* Frozen goods* Canned goods...
  
  
• Galati Brothers
• Garden Market IGA
• H Mart
• Knechtel Foods
• Knob Hill Farms
  Knob Hill Farms
  Knob Hill Farms was a supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by Steve Stavro, and operated from 1951 to 2001.-Community grocery stores:...
  
  
• Loeb
  Loeb (supermarket)
  Loeb was a Canadian supermarket chain in Eastern Ontario. It is owned by Quebec's Metro chain of grocery stores. It was once Ottawa's second-largest supermarket chain behind Loblaws. Each of the stores averaged in size...
  
  
• Lofood
• Miracle Food Mart
  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 Grand Union chain of 38 stores in June 1959 to make its entrance into the Ontario market. These stores operated unter the Steinberg banner until...
  
  
• Mr. Grocer
• OK Economy
• Red Rooster
• Sav-A-Centre
  Sav-A-Center
  Sav-A-Center was an A&P-owned chain of 20 supermarkets in the greater New Orleans, Louisiana area. The division operated throughout Louisiana, and had two stores in Mississippi...
  
  
• Steinberg's Supermarkets
• Super Centre
  Super Centre
  Super Centre was a hyper supermarket banner used by Loblaws during the 1990s in Ontario. Some stores were an expansion from the Super-Valu banner....
  
  
• Ultra Food & Drug
• Village Food Stores
  Village Food Stores
  Village Food Stores was a chain of supermarkets operating in New Brunswick, Canada, between 1987 and 1995. The chain was formed by wholesaler The Food Group Inc...
  
  
• Woodward's Food Floors
  Woodward's
  Woodward's was the name of a department store chain which operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada for one hundred years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company .-History:...