List of Canadian stores
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Warning: this list is incomplete. For complete Canadian grocery store listings, see List of supermarket chains in Canada. This article does not contain any other type of store.
Grocery stores
- Metro
- Metro
- A&PThe Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea CompanyThe Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, is a supermarket and liquor store chain in the United States. Its supermarkets, which are under six different banners, are found in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. A&P's liquor stores, known as...
- LoebLoeb (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...
- Food BasicsFood BasicsFood 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...
- LoblawsLoblaw CompaniesLoblaw 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...
- LoblawsLoblawsLoblaws 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...
- Atlantic SuperstoreAtlantic SuperstoreAtlantic Superstore is a Canadian supermarket chain of 54 stores in the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island...
- DominionDominion 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...
- Extra FoodsExtra FoodsExtra 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...
- FortinosFortinosFortinos 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...
- MaxiMaxi (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...
- No FrillsNo 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...
- ProvigoProvigoProvigo 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...
- Real Canadian SuperstoreReal Canadian SuperstoreReal Canadian Superstore is a chain of hypermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies. Its name is often shortened to RCSS or Superstore....
- Zehrs
- Loblaws
- SobeysSobeysSobeys 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...
- SobeysSobeysSobeys 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...
- IGAIGA (supermarkets)IGA is a brand of grocery stores active in more than 30 countries. Contrasting with the chain store business model, IGA operates as a franchise through stores that are owned separately from the brand. Many of these stores operate in small town markets and belong to families that manage them...
- Price ChopperPrice 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...
- Thrifty FoodsThrifty FoodsThrifty 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...
- Sobeys
- Rabba Fine Foods
List of defunct stores
This is a list of Canadian retail stores that have gone out of existence due to either bankruptcy, a merger or takeover where their name is no longer in use.- Aikenhead's HardwareAikenhead's HardwareAikenhead's Hardware was a chain of Canadian hardware stores. The original store was founded in Toronto in 1830 as "Ridout's Hardware Store" by Joseph Ridout and was located on the corner of King Street and Yonge Street...
- hardware store - Bargain Harold's - discount store chain
- Beaver LumberBeaver LumberBeaver Lumber was a Canadian building supply chain owned by Molson. It was once Canada's fourth largest building supply chain with 138 stores. In 2000 it was purchased by Home Hardware, a cooperative of over 1000 independent Canadian hardware stores...
- hardware/lumber store chain - Bi-WayDylexDylex Limited was one of Canada's largest retailers, involved in the operation of specialty retail stores, such as women's wear, menswear, and family stores...
- discount store chain - Braemar's Clothing Stores
- Consumers DistributingConsumers DistributingConsumers Distributing was a catalogue store in Canada and the United States that operated from 1957 to 1996...
- catalogue retail store chain - Dominion - grocery store chain, except Newfoundland.
- Eaton'sEaton'sThe T. Eaton Co. Limited was once Canada's largest department store retailer. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish immigrant. Eaton's grew to become a retail and social institution in Canada, with stores across the country, buying offices across the globe, and a catalogue...
- department store chain - Food CityFood 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...
- grocery store - Franklins - discount grocery store chain in Southern Ontario
- K Mart Department Store - Canadian stores sold to Zellers
- KresgeKresge- People and characters :* Cliff Kresge , an American professional golfer* Geoff Kresge, songwriter, guitarist, bassist with the band AFI* George Joseph Kresge , American mentalist better known as Kreskin or The Amazing Kreskin...
- discount store chain - Knob Hill FarmsKnob Hill FarmsKnob 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:...
- grocery store chain in Southern Ontario - Miracle Food MartMiracle Food MartMiracle 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...
- grocery store chain - Miracle Mart - department store
- Morgan'sMorgan'sMorgan's was a Montreal-based Canadian department store chain. At its peak, the company had stores in Quebec and Ontario...
- department store - ShopriteShopRiteShopRite, Shoprite, Shop Rite or Shop-Rite may refer to:* Shoprite , the South African food distributor* Shoprite , the Isle of Man-based food retailer that once traded in the United Kingdom...
- catalogue retail store chain closed 1982 - Simpson's - department store chain
- Steinbergs - department store and grocery store chains
- Supercentre - grocery store chain
- TowersTowers Department StoresTowers, operating as Bonimart in Quebec, was a Canadian discount department store chain owned by the Oshawa Group, a now-defunct grocery retailer and distributor.-History:The first store was opened in 1960 in Toronto Towers, operating as Bonimart in Quebec, was a Canadian discount department store...
- department store chain - Toy City - toy store chain
- WoolcoWoolcoWoolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in the city of Columbus, Ohio, by the F.W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its peak, Woolco had hundreds of stores in...
- department store chain - Valdi - discount grocery store chain