Food Basics

Canadian grocers are adding stores, converting banners and reworking online fulfilment. The Q3 report examines whether more capacity can capture additional household spending at an acceptable cost.

Canadian grocery retailers expanded and repositioned capacity during Q3 2026 despite limited underlying supermarket volume growth. The report examines discount conversions, specialty formats, former department-store projects and changing online fulfilment models, distinguishing announced investment from additions to operating grocery capacity.

An opportunity to dive deeper beyond the hundreds of imported products key to many ethnicities that it carries, and into showcasing the people, recipes and traditions that make culture worth experiencing.

METRO will convert 10 Ontario Metro stores to Food Basics as value-focused consumers drive stronger demand for discount grocery.

Too Good To Go is a global social impact company that connects users with partners to rescue unsold food and stop it from going to waste.

Hundreds of Metro, Food Basics and Super C locations are now live on DoorDash, with the same prices and promotions available online and in-store.

Food Basics will open a 33,000 square foot store at ROQ City in Downtown Toronto, joining Shoppers Drug Mart in the growing mixed-use development by Tricon Residential.