Grocery Stores in Thunder Bay, ON
Faircart lists 7 grocery stores in Thunder Bay, ON, across 3 banners: Metro, Safeway and FreshCo. 7 of them come from the retailer's own store locator; 0 come from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map stores whose chains do not publish a readable list. Nothing here is typed in by hand. Metro has the most Thunder Bay locations we can confirm (3 of 7). These stores sit in 3 different postal areas (P7A, P7B, P7E). Thunder Bay's grocery banners here are run by Metro Inc. and Empire Company Limited, and 4 of the 7 stores we list are covered by Faircart's live price tracking.
What we can confirm in Thunder Bay
- Metro: 3 locations in Thunder Bay (43% of the 7 we list), across 2 postal areas. Owned by Metro Inc.. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Safeway: 3 locations in Thunder Bay (43% of the 7 we list), across 2 postal areas. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices not tracked by Faircart yet.
- FreshCo: 1 location in Thunder Bay (14% of the 7 we list), across 1 postal area. Owned by Empire Company Limited. Addresses from the retailer's own locator. Prices tracked by Faircart.
- Concentration: 4 of the 7 Thunder Bay stores we list (57%) 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 Thunder Bay shoppers should assume there are more stores here than we show.
Who owns the grocery stores in Thunder Bay
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metro | Metro Inc. | 3 | Retailer | Tracked | No price-match policy |
| Safeway | Empire Company Limited | 3 | Retailer | Not tracked | Not verified |
| FreshCo | Empire Company Limited | 1 | Retailer | Tracked | Competitor price match |
Metro is owned by Metro Inc., the Montreal-based grocer that also owns Food Basics, Super C, Adonis and the Jean Coutu pharmacy chain.
Safeway’s Canadian stores are owned by Empire Company Limited, which bought Canada Safeway from the US Safeway chain in 2013 — the US and Canadian Safeways have been separate companies ever since.
FreshCo is Empire Company Limited’s discount banner, converted from Price Chopper stores beginning in 2010.
Grocery prices in Thunder Bay
Faircart does not have Thunder Bay-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 Thunder Bay locations, we do track live prices for Metro, FreshCo. 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 Thunder Bay store we can confirm
7 locations, grouped by banner. Each one carries the retailer's own store number and the locator it came from.
Metro
3 locations · from the retailer's own locatorMetro Arthur W. & Hwy. 61
1101 Arthur St. W
Thunder Bay, ON P7E 5S2RetailerStore #310
Metro River Street
640 River St
Thunder Bay, ON P7A 3S4RetailerStore #308
Metro Thunder Bay
505 Arthur St. W
Thunder Bay, ON P7E 5R5RetailerStore #309
Safeway
3 locations · from the retailer's own locatorSafeway Arthur Street
115 West Arthur Street
Thunder Bay, ON P7E5P7RetailerStore #4811
Safeway Court Street Pharmacy Only
70 North Court Street
Thunder Bay, ON P7B2Z3RetailerStore #4807
Safeway Dawson Road
1015 Dawson Road
Thunder Bay, ON P7B6S7RetailerStore #4812
FreshCo
1 location · from the retailer's own locatorFreshCo Thunder Bay
70 North Court Street
Thunder Bay, ON P7A4T8RetailerStore #8965
Price matching at Thunder Bay banners
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
Safeway
Not verifiedWe have not been able to verify a current, chain-wide price-match policy for Safeway against the retailer's own published materials, so we are not publishing a verdict.
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
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 Thunder Bay 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.