Grocery Stores in Hamilton, ON
Faircart lists 24 grocery stores in Hamilton, ON, across 5 banners: Food Basics, FreshCo, Metro, Sobeys and Fortinos. 22 of them come from the retailer's own store locator; 2 come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map stores whose chains do not publish a readable list. Nothing here is typed in by hand. Food Basics has the most Hamilton locations we can confirm (8 of 24). These stores sit in 16 different postal areas (L8B, L8E, L8G, L8H, L8J, L8K, and more). Hamilton's grocery banners here are run by Metro Inc., Empire Company Limited and Loblaw Companies Limited, and 22 of the 24 stores we list are covered by Faircart's live price tracking.
2 of these 24 locations come from OpenStreetMap — verify before you drive. Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read, so those addresses are contributed by volunteers. They are accurate in aggregate, but any single listing may be out of date. Rows from a chain's own locator are marked below.
What we can confirm in Hamilton
- Food Basics: 8 locations in Hamilton (33% of the 24 we list), across 7 postal areas, including Ancaster, Hamilton. Owned by Metro Inc.. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- FreshCo: 6 locations in Hamilton (25% of the 24 we list), across 6 postal areas, including Hamilton, Waterdown. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Metro: 5 locations in Hamilton (21% of the 24 we list), across 5 postal areas, including Hamilton, Dundas, Stoney Creek. Owned by Metro Inc.. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Sobeys: 3 locations in Hamilton (13% of the 24 we list), across 3 postal areas, including Ancaster, Waterdown, Stoney Creek. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Fortinos: 2 locations in Hamilton (8% of the 24 we list), across 2 postal areas. Owned by Loblaw Companies Limited, ultimately George Weston Limited. Addresses from OpenStreetMap — community-contributed, so check before you drive. Prices not tracked by Faircart yet.
- Source split: 22 of these 24 Hamilton listings (92%) came from a chain's own store locator. The other 2 came from OpenStreetMap contributors, because Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read. Community listings are accurate in aggregate but any single one may be out of date.
- Concentration: 13 of the 24 Hamilton stores we list (54%) are operated by a single company, Metro Inc..
- Not listed on this page: Farm Boy, Longo’s and Chalo! FreshCo. We could not read their store lists from a public source on our last harvest, so Hamilton shoppers should assume there are more stores here than we show.
Who owns the grocery stores in Hamilton
Store counts are what we can confirm from each retailer's own locator, not a claim about every store in the city.
| Banner | Owned by | Stores | Address source | Faircart prices | Price match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Basics | Metro Inc. | 8 | Retailer | Tracked | No price-match policy |
| FreshCo | Empire Company Limited | 6 | Retailer | Tracked | Competitor price match |
| Metro | Metro Inc. | 5 | Retailer | Tracked | No price-match policy |
| Sobeys | Empire Company Limited | 3 | Retailer | Tracked | Limited points guarantee |
| Fortinos | Loblaw Companies Limited (George Weston Limited) | 2 | OpenStreetMap | Not tracked | Not verified |
Food Basics is Metro Inc.’s Ontario discount banner — same parent company as Metro, different pricing model.
FreshCo is Empire Company Limited’s discount banner, converted from Price Chopper stores beginning in 2010.
Metro is owned by Metro Inc., the Montreal-based grocer that also owns Food Basics, Super C, Adonis and the Jean Coutu pharmacy chain.
Sobeys is owned by Empire Company Limited, the Nova Scotia–based grocer that also runs FreshCo, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy and Longo’s.
Fortinos is a Hamilton-area Loblaw Companies Limited banner, controlled by George Weston Limited.
Grocery prices in Hamilton
Faircart does not have Hamilton-specific prices, and we are not going to imply that we do. Our price observations are collected from each banner's online storefront for one region, so they describe the banner, not the individual store on your street.
Of the banners with confirmed Hamilton locations, we do track live prices for Food Basics, FreshCo, Metro, Sobeys. You can run your own shopping list against those banners and see which basket comes out lowest — only baskets that contain every item you asked for are ranked.
Compare a shopping list →Every Hamilton store we can confirm
24 locations, grouped by banner. Each one carries the retailer's own store number and the locator it came from.
Food Basics
8 locations · from the retailer's own locatorFood Basics - Ancaster
71 Wilson Street West
Ancaster, ON L9G 1N1RetailerStore #100976
Food Basics - Hamilton
845 King Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 1K4RetailerStore #100845
Food Basics - Hamilton
505 Rymal Road East
Hamilton, ON L8W 3Z1RetailerStore #100906
Food Basics - Hamilton
135 Barton Street East
Hamilton, ON L8L 8A8RetailerStore #100937
Food Basics - Hamilton
640 Mohawk Road West
Hamilton, ON L9C 1X6RetailerStore #100687
Food Basics - Hamilton
724 Mohawk Road East
Hamilton, ON L8T 2P8RetailerStore #100695
Food Basics & Pharmacy - Hamilton
2500 Barton Street East
Hamilton, ON L8E 4A2RetailerStore #100621
Food Basics & Pharmacy - Hamilton
751 Upper James Street
Hamilton, ON L9C 3A1RetailerStore #100836
FreshCo
6 locations · from the retailer's own locatorFreshCo Barton & Gage
869 Barton Street E
Hamilton, ON L8L3B4RetailerStore #9548
FreshCo Barton & Strathearne
1565 Barton Street East
Hamilton, ON L8H2Y3RetailerStore #3881
FreshCo Queenston & Nash
700 Queenston Road Unit A
Hamilton, ON L8G1A3RetailerStore #9579
FreshCo Rymal & Upper Gage
905 Rymal Road East
Hamilton, ON L8W3M2RetailerStore #3815
FreshCo Upper Gage & Fennel
601 Upper Gage Ave
Hamilton, ON L8V4J7RetailerStore #9690
FreshCo Waterdown
255 Dundas Street East
Waterdown, ON L8B0E5RetailerStore #9628
Metro
5 locations · from the retailer's own locatorMetro Barton Street
1161 Barton Street East
Hamilton, ON L8H 2V4RetailerStore #264
Metro Dundas Valley
15 Governor's Rd.
Dundas, ON L9H 6L9RetailerStore #224
Metro Fennell Plaza
967 Fennell Ave. E
Hamilton, ON L8T 1R1RetailerStore #257
Metro Rosedale
1900 King St. E
Hamilton, ON L8K 1W1RetailerStore #262
Metro Winona Crossing
1370 South Service Road
Stoney Creek, ON L8E 5C5RetailerStore #383
Sobeys
3 locations · from the retailer's own locatorSobeys Extra Ancaster
977 Golflinks Road
Ancaster, ON L9K1K1RetailerStore #0694
Sobeys Flamborough
255 Dundas Street
Waterdown, ON L8B0E5RetailerStore #6730
Sobeys Stone Church
1770 Stone Church Rd E
Stoney Creek, ON L8J0K5RetailerStore #4737
Fortinos
2 locations · from OpenStreetMap contributorsFortinos
50 Dundurn Street South
Hamilton, ON L8P 4W3OpenStreetMapnode/258607808
Fortinos
1579 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 1E6OpenStreetMapway/183290222
Community-contributed locations on this page are © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). © OpenStreetMap contributors
Price matching at Hamilton banners
Food Basics
No price-match policyAs of September 4, 2026, Food Basics publishes no price-match policy. We checked the Food Basics Help Centre, the weekly flyer, the terms and conditions, and the Moi loyalty programme terms on foodbasics.ca, and none of them describes a customer-initiated price match against a competitor's advertised price. This is a finding about Food Basics' published material, not a claim about what an individual store manager will do at the till.
Full Food Basics price-match rules →Verified September 4, 2026
FreshCo
Competitor price matchIf one of a short list of discount competitors advertises an identical item cheaper in its current flyer, FreshCo sells it to you for 1¢ less. The guarantee is limited to up to four named discount competitors in your store's trade area, current-flyer proof only, and a cap of four units.
Full FreshCo price-match rules →Verified August 25, 2026
Metro
No price-match policyAs of September 4, 2026, Metro publishes no price-match policy. We checked the Metro Help Centre, the weekly flyer, the terms and conditions, and the Moi loyalty programme terms on metro.ca, and none of them describes a customer-initiated price match against a competitor's advertised price. This is a finding about Metro' published material, not a claim about what an individual store manager will do at the till.
Full Metro price-match rules →Verified September 4, 2026
Sobeys
Limited points guaranteeSobeys' published "Verified Prices" program — offered in Atlantic Canada (NS, NB, NL, PEI) for a limited time — automatically credits the difference in Scene+ points when a flyer item Sobeys has marked with the "Verified Prices" icon is cheaper at one of its pre-selected brick-and-mortar competitors. The official process is a points guarantee on items Sobeys selects, not a customer-triggered price reduction using a competitor flyer at checkout.
Full Sobeys price-match rules →Verified August 25, 2026
Fortinos
Not verifiedWe have not been able to verify a current, chain-wide price-match policy for Fortinos against the retailer's own published materials, so we are not publishing a verdict.
What this page is missing
A directory that hides its gaps is an advertisement. These banners operate in Canada and are not listed above, because on our last harvest we could not read their store lists from a public source. Assume Hamilton has more grocery stores than this page shows.
- Farm BoyEmpire Company LimitedFarm Boy runs a separate storefront platform and is absent from the Empire store index we read, so we cannot list its locations.
- Longo’sEmpire Company LimitedLongo’s runs a separate storefront platform and is absent from the Empire store index we read, so we cannot list its locations.
- Chalo! FreshCoEmpire Company LimitedChalo! FreshCo is not distinguished as its own banner in the Empire store index we read, so we cannot list its locations separately.