Grocery chains in Canada

Our maps cover 17 grocery chains in Canada. The biggest is No Frills, with about 350 locations in 9 provinces and territories, followed by Metro (about 300) and Maxi (about 200). No Frills has the most locations in 3 of the 13 provinces and territories.

Biggest grocery chains in each province

Province	Most locations	Locations	Runner-up	Locations
Alberta	No Frills	60	Save-On-Foods	50
British Columbia	Save-On-Foods	130	No Frills	35
Manitoba	Sobeys	15	No Frills	13
New Brunswick	Atlantic Superstore	19	Sobeys	17
Newfoundland and Labrador	Sobeys	10	No Frills	5
Northwest Territories	Your Independent Grocer	2	–
Nova Scotia	Atlantic Superstore	29	Sobeys	28
Nunavut	–		–
Ontario	No Frills	210	Food Basics	142
Prince Edward Island	Atlantic Superstore	4	Sobeys	4
Quebec	Maxi	196	Metro	174
Saskatchewan	No Frills	12	Save-On-Foods	10
Yukon	Real Canadian Superstore	1	Save-On-Foods	1

All 17 grocery chains on our maps

Chain	Locations	Provinces & territories	Most in
No Frills	350	9	Ontario
Metro	304	2	Quebec
Maxi	198	2	Quebec
Bulk Barn	196	10	Ontario
Save-On-Foods	196	5	British Columbia
Your Independent Grocer	177	11	Ontario
Sobeys	176	9	Ontario
Food Basics	143	2	Ontario
Real Canadian Superstore	122	7	Ontario
FreshCo	121	5	Ontario
Safeway	107	5	Alberta
Super C	99	1	Quebec
Atlantic Superstore	52	3	Nova Scotia
Loblaws	51	4	Ontario
Farm Boy	50	1	Ontario
Zehrs	43	1	Ontario
Thrifty Foods	26	1	British Columbia

Store locations from All the Places (data from October 2026), with gaps filled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Only chains on our maps with at least 25 locations are listed, so smaller local chains are missing. Counts can be a little off as stores open and close.