Grocery Stores in Kitchener, ON
Faircart lists 13 grocery stores in Kitchener, ON, across 5 banners: Food Basics, FreshCo, Sobeys, Costco and Real Canadian Superstore. 11 of them come from the retailer's own store locator; 2 come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map stores whose chains do not publish a readable list.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 Kitchener locations we can confirm (5 of 13). These stores sit in 7 different postal areas (N2A, N2C, N2E, N2G, N2M, N2N, and more). Kitchener's grocery banners here are run by Metro Inc., Empire Company Limited, Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. and Loblaw Companies Limited, and 11 of the 13 stores we list are covered by Faircart's live price tracking.
2 of these 13 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 Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read, so those addresses are contributed by volunteers. They are accurate in aggregate, but any single listing may be out of date.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 Kitchener
- Food Basics: 5 locations in Kitchener (38% of the 13 we list), across 4 postal areas. Owned by Metro Inc.. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- FreshCo: 3 locations in Kitchener (23% of the 13 we list), across 3 postal areas. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Sobeys: 3 locations in Kitchener (23% of the 13 we list), across 3 postal areas. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Costco: 1 location in Kitchener (8% of the 13 we list), across 1 postal area. Owned by Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd., ultimately Costco Wholesale Corporation. Addresses from OpenStreetMap — community-contributed, so check before you drive. Prices not tracked by Faircart yet.
- Real Canadian Superstore: 1 location in Kitchener (8% of the 13 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.
- Source split: 11 of these 13 Kitchener listings (85%) 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 The other 2 came from OpenStreetMap contributors, because Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read.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: 6 of the 13 Kitchener stores we list (46%) are operated by a single company, Empire Company Limited.
- 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 Kitchener shoppers should assume there are more stores here than we show.
Who owns the grocery stores in Kitchener
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. | 5 | Retailer | Tracked | No price-match policy |
| FreshCo | Empire Company Limited | 3 | Retailer | Tracked | Competitor price match |
| Sobeys | Empire Company Limited | 3 | Retailer | Tracked | Limited points guarantee |
| Costco | Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. (Costco Wholesale Corporation) | 1 | OpenStreetMap | Not tracked | Not verified |
| Real Canadian Superstore | Loblaw Companies Limited (George Weston Limited) | 1 | OpenStreetMap | Not tracked | Competitor price match |
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.
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.
Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. is a subsidiary of Costco Wholesale Corporation of Washington State, and requires a paid membership to shop.
Real Canadian Superstore is Loblaw Companies Limited’s large-format banner, controlled by George Weston Limited.
Grocery prices in Kitchener
Faircart does not have Kitchener-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 Kitchener locations, we do track live prices for Food Basics, FreshCo, 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 Kitchener store we can confirm
13 locations, grouped by banner. Each one carries the retailer's own store number and the locator it came from.
Food Basics
5 locations · from the retailer's own locatorFood Basics - Kitchener
851 Fischer-Hallman Road
Kitchener, ON N2M 5N8RetailerStore #100690
Food Basics - Kitchener
1270 Fischer-Hallman Rd, Unit #A1
Kitchener, ON N2E 3X7RetailerStore #100847
Food Basics & Pharmacy - Kitchener
370 Highland Road West
Kitchener, ON N2C 3C7RetailerStore #100959
Food Basics & Pharmacy - Kitchener
1405 Ottawa Street North
Kitchener, ON N2A 1H3RetailerStore #100960
Food Basics & Pharmacy - Kitchener
655 Fairway Road South
Kitchener, ON N2C 1X4RetailerStore #100877
FreshCo
3 locations · from the retailer's own locatorFreshCo Homer Watson
2400 Homer Watson Blvd
Kitchener, ON N2P2R6RetailerStore #9653
FreshCo Weber & Franklin
1111 Weber Street
Kitchener, ON N2A2Y2RetailerStore #9547
FreshCo Westmount & Ottawa
720 Westmount Road
Kitchener, ON N2E2M6RetailerStore #2920
Sobeys
3 locations · from the retailer's own locatorSobeys Fischer-Hallman
1187 Fischer-Hallman Road
Kitchener, ON N2E4H9RetailerStore #0852
Sobeys Highland
274 Highland Road West
Kitchener, ON N2M3C5RetailerStore #0641
Sobeys Ira Needles
235 Ira Needles Blvd
Kitchener, ON N2N0B2RetailerStore #0685
Costco
1 location · from OpenStreetMap contributorsCostco
4438 King Street East
Kitchener, ON N2G 3W6OpenStreetMapway/77825121
Real Canadian Superstore
1 location · from OpenStreetMap contributorsReal Canadian Superstore
875 Highland Road East
Kitchener, ON N2N 2Y2OpenStreetMapnode/984234259
Community-contributed locations on this page are © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). © OpenStreetMap contributors
Price matching at Kitchener 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
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
Costco
Not verifiedWe have not been able to verify a current, chain-wide price-match policy for Costco against the retailer's own published materials, so we are not publishing a verdict.
Real Canadian Superstore
Competitor price matchFor an in-store ad match, show an official current print or digital ad from an eligible major competitor in the store's local trade area. The product must be identical in brand, size and attributes, and the limit is four units. Ontario online customers can request an eligible ad match after delivery through the Help Centre; that online process is not offered nationally.
Full Real Canadian Superstore 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 Kitchener 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.