Grocery Stores in Kingston, ON
Faircart lists 10 grocery stores in Kingston, ON, across 5 banners: Food Basics, Metro, FreshCo, Loblaws and Walmart. 8 of them come from the retailer's own store locator; 2 come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map stores whose chains do not publish a readable list.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 Kingston locations we can confirm (4 of 10). These stores sit in 4 different postal areas (K7K, K7L, K7M, K7P). Kingston's grocery banners here are run by Metro Inc., Empire Company Limited, Loblaw Companies Limited and Walmart Canada Corp., and 9 of the 10 stores we list are covered by Faircart's live price tracking.
2 of these 10 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 Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read, so those addresses are contributed by volunteers. They are accurate in aggregate, but any single listing may be out of date.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 Kingston
- Food Basics: 4 locations in Kingston (40% of the 10 we list), across 2 postal areas. Owned by Metro Inc.. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Metro: 3 locations in Kingston (30% of the 10 we list), across 3 postal areas. Owned by Metro Inc.. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- FreshCo: 1 location in Kingston (10% of the 10 we list), across 1 postal area. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Loblaws: 1 location in Kingston (10% of the 10 we list), across 1 postal area. 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.
- Walmart: 1 location in Kingston (10% of the 10 we list), across 1 postal area. Owned by Walmart Canada Corp., ultimately Walmart Inc.. Addresses from OpenStreetMap — community-contributed, so check before you drive. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Source split: 8 of these 10 Kingston listings (80%) 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 The other 2 came from OpenStreetMap contributors, because Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read. Community listings are accurate in aggregate but any single one may be out of date.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: 7 of the 10 Kingston stores we list (70%) 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 Kingston shoppers should assume there are more stores here than we show.
Who owns the grocery stores in Kingston
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. | 4 | Retailer | Tracked | No price-match policy |
| Metro | Metro Inc. | 3 | Retailer | Tracked | No price-match policy |
| FreshCo | Empire Company Limited | 1 | Retailer | Tracked | Competitor price match |
| Loblaws | Loblaw Companies Limited (George Weston Limited) | 1 | OpenStreetMap | Not tracked | Not verified |
| Walmart | Walmart Canada Corp. (Walmart Inc.) | 1 | OpenStreetMap | Tracked | Own-channel match only |
Food Basics is Metro Inc.’s Ontario discount banner — same parent company as Metro, different pricing model.
Metro is owned by Metro Inc., the Montreal-based grocer that also owns Food Basics, Super C, Adonis and the Jean Coutu pharmacy chain.
FreshCo is Empire Company Limited’s discount banner, converted from Price Chopper stores beginning in 2010.
Loblaws is the flagship banner of Loblaw Companies Limited, controlled by George Weston Limited — the Weston family holding company.
Walmart Canada Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Walmart Inc., the Arkansas-based retailer — one of only two chains in this list that is not Canadian-owned.
Grocery prices in Kingston
Faircart does not have Kingston-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 Kingston locations, we do track live prices for Food Basics, Metro, FreshCo, Walmart. 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 Kingston store we can confirm
10 locations, grouped by banner. Each one carries the retailer's own store number and the locator it came from.
Food Basics
4 locations · from the retailer's own locatorFood Basics - Kingston
33 Barrack Street
Kingston, ON K7K 1E7RetailerStore #100949
Food Basics - Kingston
1200 Highway 15
Kingston, ON K7K 7J8RetailerStore #100830
Food Basics - Kingston
1225 Princess Street
Kingston, ON K7M 3E1RetailerStore #100640
Food Basics & Pharmacy - Kingston
770 Gardiners Road Unit A002
Kingston, ON K7M 3X9RetailerStore #100992
Metro
3 locations · from the retailer's own locatorMetro Barrie St.
310 Barrie St.
Kingston, ON K7L 5L4RetailerStore #241
Metro Bayridge Dr.
775 Bayridge Drive
Kingston, ON K7P 2P1RetailerStore #286
Metro Gardiners & Bath
460 Gardiners Rd.
Kingston, ON K7M 3X9RetailerStore #245
FreshCo
1 location · from the retailer's own locatorFreshCo Princess & Andersen
2327 Princess Street
Kingston, ON K7M3G1RetailerStore #9772
Loblaws
1 location · from OpenStreetMap contributorsLoblaws
1100 Princess Street
Kingston, ON K7L 5G8OpenStreetMapway/657122087
Walmart
1 location · from OpenStreetMap contributorsWalmart Supercentre
1130 Midland Avenue
Kingston, ON K7P 2X9OpenStreetMapway/785641554
Community-contributed locations on this page are © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). © OpenStreetMap contributors
Price matching at Kingston 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
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
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
Loblaws
Not verifiedWe have not been able to verify a current, chain-wide price-match policy for Loblaws against the retailer's own published materials, so we are not publishing a verdict.
Walmart
Own-channel match onlyWalmart Canada's pricing policy does not offer competitor Ad Match. If an identical item is currently sold and in stock for less on Walmart.ca, an associate can verify that Walmart price in store and may require supervisor approval; the manager on duty has the final decision. That is an own-channel price correction, not a match against another retailer.
Full Walmart price-match rules →Verified August 25, 2026
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 Kingston 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.