Grocery Stores in St. John's, NL
Faircart lists 9 grocery stores in St. John's, NL, across 3 banners: Sobeys, No Frills and Walmart. 7 of them come from the retailer's own store locator; 2 come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map stores whose chains do not publish a readable list.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. Sobeys has the most St. John's locations we can confirm (7 of 9). These stores sit in 5 different postal areas (A1A, A1B, A1C, A1E, A1N). St. John's's grocery banners here are run by Empire Company Limited, Loblaw Companies Limited and Walmart Canada Corp., and 8 of the 9 stores we list are covered by Faircart's live price tracking.
2 of these 9 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 Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read, so those addresses are contributed by volunteers. They are accurate in aggregate, but any single listing may be out of date.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 St. John's
- Sobeys: 7 locations in St. John's (78% of the 9 we list), across 5 postal areas, including St John's, Mount Pearl, St. John's. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- No Frills: 1 location in St. John's (11% of the 9 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 St. John's (11% of the 9 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: 7 of these 9 St. John's listings (78%) 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 The other 2 came from OpenStreetMap contributors, because Loblaw, Walmart, Costco, Super C and Adonis do not publish a store list we can read. Community listings are accurate in aggregate but any single one may be out of date.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 9 St. John's stores we list (78%) 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 St. John's shoppers should assume there are more stores here than we show.
Who owns the grocery stores in St. John's
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sobeys | Empire Company Limited | 7 | Retailer | Tracked | Limited points guarantee |
| No Frills | Loblaw Companies Limited (George Weston Limited) | 1 | OpenStreetMap | Not tracked | Competitor price match |
| Walmart | Walmart Canada Corp. (Walmart Inc.) | 1 | OpenStreetMap | Tracked | Own-channel match only |
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.
No Frills is Loblaw Companies Limited’s franchised discount banner, controlled by George Weston Limited.
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 St. John's
Faircart does not have St. John's-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 St. John's locations, we do track live prices for Sobeys, 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 St. John's store we can confirm
9 locations, grouped by banner. Each one carries the retailer's own store number and the locator it came from.
Sobeys
7 locations · from the retailer's own locatorSobeys Kenmount Road
45 Kelsey Drive
St John's, NL A1B5C8RetailerStore #0681
Sobeys Mount Pearl
50 Old Placentia Road
Mount Pearl, NL A1N4Y1RetailerStore #0855
Sobeys Ropewalk Lane
45 Ropewalk Lane
St John's, NL A1E4P1RetailerStore #0604 · Open 24 hours
Sobeys St John's Howley Estates
10 Elizabeth Ave
St John's, NL A1A5L4RetailerStore #0744
Sobeys St. John's Merrymeeting Road
8 Merrymeeting Road
St. John's, NL A1C2V5RetailerStore #0857
Sobeys Topsail Road
470 Topsail Road
St John's, NL A1E2C3RetailerStore #0340
Sobeys Torbay Road
360 Torbay Road
St John's, NL A1A4E1RetailerStore #0320
No Frills
1 location · from OpenStreetMap contributorsNo Frills
430 Topsail Road
St. John's, NL A1E4N1OpenStreetMapnode/3413279836
Walmart
1 location · from OpenStreetMap contributorsWalmart Supercentre
75 Kelsey Drive
St. John's, NL A1B 5C8OpenStreetMapway/167896689
Community-contributed locations on this page are © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). © OpenStreetMap contributors
Price matching at St. John's banners
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
No Frills
Competitor price matchShow No Frills a major supermarket competitor's current flyer (print or digital) for an eligible item and the store will match that lower price, subject to its current terms. Despite the "Won't Be Beat®" branding, the program matches the competitor's price — it doesn't undercut it — and No Frills decides which competitors, trade areas and "comparable items" count "solely at our discretion."
Full No Frills price-match rules →Verified August 25, 2026
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 St. John's 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.