List of supermarket chains in Oceania
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 Australia

  • Wesfarmers
    Wesfarmers
    Wesfarmers Limited is one of Australia’s largest public companies and one of Australia's largest retailers. Its headquarters are in Perth, Western Australia....

    • Bi-Lo
      BI-LO (Australia)
      BI-LO is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers . Once a chain of 180 outlets, most BI-LO supermarkets were re-branded as Coles Supermarkets during 2006 and 2007. In October 2008, Coles stated it was looking to create a new chain to replace the remaining BI-LO stores...

    • Bi-Lo Mega Frrresh
    • Coles
      Coles Supermarkets
      Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741...

    • Coles Central
      Coles Supermarkets
      Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741...

    • Coles Express
      Coles Supermarkets
      Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741...

    • Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket
      Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket
      Pick 'n Pay hypermarkets are a chain of hypermarkets in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia owned by Wesfarmers. There are two stores located at Aspley and Sunnybank Hills...

  • Metcash
    • IGA
    • Supa IGA
  • Woolworths Limited
    Woolworths Limited
    Woolworths Limited is a major Australian company with extensive retail interest throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is the:* largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand by market capitalisation and sales...

    • Flemings
      Flemings (supermarkets)
      Flemings is a chain of supermarkets in Sydney, Australia. The chain is owned by Woolworths Limited and only two supermarkets still trade under the Flemings brand name. Internally they are known as Woolworths, feature the same marketing materials and carry the same home brand products. The remaining...

       (New South Wales only)
    • Safeway (Victoria only, Will be re-branded as "Woolworths")
    • Woolworths Metro
    • Woolworths (most are outside Victoria, however "Safeway" will be rebranded as "Woolworths" in Victoria)
    • Food For Less
      Food For Less
      Food For Less is an Australian discount supermarket chain owned by Woolworths Limited. It was originally established in Queensland, where a discount 'food barn' chain operating as "Jack the Slasher" was acquired by Woolworths in the early 1980s...

  • Independent
    Independent business
    In business, an independent business as a term of distinction generally refers to privately owned companies . Independent businesses most commonly take the form of sole-proprietorships...

    • Foodworks (Australia)
      Foodworks (Australia)
      FoodWorks is the brand the Australian independent retail supermarket group Australian United Retailers Limited trade under. The AURL was created in November 2004 from the Merger of the FoodWorks Supermarket Group Ltd and Australian United Retailers . Its main competitors are Woolworths, Coles,...

    • Australian United Retailers Limited(AURL)
    • Farmer Jack's (Western Australia only)
    • Aldi Australia
      ALDI
      ALDI Einkauf GmbH & Co. oHG, doing business as ', short for "Albrecht Discount", is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany...

       (Queensland, New South Wales, ACT and Victoria only)
    • Fishers (Victoria and Mount Gambier
      Mount Gambier, South Australia
      Mount Gambier is the largest regional city in South Australia located approximately 450 kilometres south of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres from the Victorian border....

       only)
    • Fresh Provisions (Western Australia only)
    • Costco
    • Foodland Supermarkets (South Australia only)
    • Leo's Fine Food & Wine (Victoria only)
    • Macro Wholefoods (New South Wales and Victoria only)
    • Maxi Foods (Victoria only)
    • NQR (Victoria only)
    • Supabarn
      Supabarn
      Supabarn is a supermarket chain based in Canberra with shops across the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales in Australia. The chain has been in operation since 1994 and current turnover is $121m in 2007-Canberra City:...

       (ACT/NSW only)
    • Valuemart (Queensland only)
  • Pick 'n Pay
    Pick 'n Pay
    Pick 'n Pay is a second largest supermarket chain store in South Africa, established in 1967. It can also be found in other regions of southern Africa, such as Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The founder of the chain is Jack Goldin. Raymond Ackerman purchased three Pick 'n Pay...

    • Franklins
      Franklins
      Franklins is a discount supermarket chain selling packaged groceries and perishables throughout New South Wales, Australia. It owns the No Frills brand of generic products, promoted by their mascot, "Red Sock". It is known as "Australia's Original Discount Grocer"...

       (New South Wales only)
  • SPAR Australia Limited
    • 5 Star (New South Wales, ACT, Queensland and Northern Territory only)
    • SPAR
      SPAR
      Spar , trades from approximately 12400 stores in 34 countries worldwide and is the world's largest independent voluntary retail trading chain. Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932 by retailer Adriaan Van Well and now, through its affiliate organisations, operates through most European...

       (Queensland and New South Wales only)

Former supermarkets

  • Action Supermarkets
    Action Supermarkets
    Action is a defunct Australian supermarket chain. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Action had 80 supermarkets across Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and was one of the largest supermarket chains in Australia...

     (Queensland, Northern NSW, Western Australia only)
    49 stores sold to and rebranded as Woolworths, remaining stores rebranded as IGA in 2006.
  • Arrow Supermarkets
    Arrow Supermarkets (Australia)
    Arrow Supermarkets was an Australian supermarket chain, which operated until the early 1990s. Arrow was marketed as a discount supermarket and were often located in neighbourhood shopping centres incorporating an Arrow Supermarket, Target Discount Department Store, Red Apple Restaurant, and a...

  • AUR
    Rebranded as FoodWorks in 2003.
  • Franklins Big Fresh
    Big Fresh
    Big Fresh was opened in 1988 with its first store in Mount Wellington Auckland. Big Fresh offered a wide range of fresh foods, discount groceries in large market-style store. The concept for Big Fresh was based on a Farmers Market with their focus being on their extensive range of fresh foods...

     (Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria only)
    All stores closed or sold off in 2001
  • Budget Rite Foodmarkets
  • Buy Rite
    Taken over by AUR in the 1990s, rebranded as FoodWorks in 2003.
  • Cannon Supermarkets (ACT?)
    Taken over by Woolworths Limited, stores rebranded as Woolworths
  • Clancy's
    Rebranded as IGA in 2000
  • Dewsons (Western Australia only)
    Rebranded as IGA in 2006
  • Dickens Foodmarkets
  • Jewel Supermarkets
    Jewel Food Stores (Australia)
    Jewel Food Stores was a discount supermarket chain in Australia that is now defunct. The chain was originally owned and operated by the Fleming family. They are not related to the American supermarket chain "Jewel" now owned by Supervalu....


    Rebranded as IGA in 2000
  • Festival Supermarkets 
    Rebranded as IGA in 2000.
  • Food Master
  • Four Square WA (Western Australia only
    Rebranded as Eziway in 2004
  • Fresco Supermarkets (New South Wales only)
    All but one store were taken over and rebranded as Franklins in 2002.
  • Goodfellows
  • Harry Heaths (Victoria metro Melbourne only) - Heidelberg, Forest Hill , Nunawading, Chirnside Park, Epping Plaza, Balwyn became part of SSW
  • Half Case
  • Jack the Slasher Supermarkets (Queensland only)
    Renamed to Food For Less
    Food For Less
    Food For Less is an Australian discount supermarket chain owned by Woolworths Limited. It was originally established in Queensland, where a discount 'food barn' chain operating as "Jack the Slasher" was acquired by Woolworths in the early 1980s...

     in the early 1980s
  • Jewel Supermarkets
    Jewel Food Stores (Australia)
    Jewel Food Stores was a discount supermarket chain in Australia that is now defunct. The chain was originally owned and operated by the Fleming family. They are not related to the American supermarket chain "Jewel" now owned by Supervalu....


    Rebranded as IGA in 2000
  • MityMart
  • Nancarrows Fabulous
  • Newmart (Western Australia only)
    Rebranded as Coles in 2003. Some Stores sold to FAL and rebranded as Action
    Action Supermarkets
    Action is a defunct Australian supermarket chain. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Action had 80 supermarkets across Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and was one of the largest supermarket chains in Australia...

    .
  • Payless Supermarkets
  • Permewans
  • Rainbow Supermarkets
  • Riteway
  • Purity (Tasmania only)
    Rebranded as Woolworths in 2002
  • Roelf Vos
    Roelf Vos
    Roelf Vos was a wealthy Tasmanian businessman who, amongst other achievements, established a supermarket chain carrying his name initially in Launceston, but later expanded throughout the whole of northern Tasmania. The equivalent in the south of the state was Purity Supermarkets.Vos initially...

     (Tasmania only)
    Rebranded as Woolworths in 2002
  • Shoeys (New South Wales only)
    Rebranded as Bi-Lo
    BI-LO (Australia)
    BI-LO is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers . Once a chain of 180 outlets, most BI-LO supermarkets were re-branded as Coles Supermarkets during 2006 and 2007. In October 2008, Coles stated it was looking to create a new chain to replace the remaining BI-LO stores...

     in 1987
  • SSW
  • Stammers Supermarket
  • Supa Valu
  • Super K Mart converted to Coles supermarkets and K Mart discount department stores in the early 1990s
  • Tuckerbag

  • Progressive Enterprises
    Progressive Enterprises
    Progressive Enterprises Limited is an Australian owned company operating in New Zealand, and a subsidiary of the Australian retail group Woolworths Limited....

    • Countdown
      Countdown (supermarket)
      Countdown is a New Zealand full-service supermarket chain, owned by Woolworths Limited. Founded in 1981, Countdown is now the flagship brand of Progressive Enterprises, Woolworths' New Zealand supermarket subsidiary, with 133 supermarkets across New Zealand...

    • Foodtown
      Foodtown
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       - Will be converting to Countdown.
    • Fresh Choice
    • SuperValue
      SuperValue
      SuperValue is a supermarket chain store in New Zealand founded in the 1960s. Along with supermarket chain FreshChoice, it is franchised by Wholesale Distributors Limited, a division of Progressive Enterprises Ltd which is owned by Woolworths Limited....

    • Woolworths
      Woolworths Supermarkets (New Zealand)
      Woolworths is a New Zealand supermarket chain and a unit of Woolworths Limited.- 1929 - 1979 Woolworths :Founded in 1929 by Percy Christmas, the chain was separated from the parent company Woolworths Limited in Australia and was called Woolworths New Zealand...

       - Will be converting to Countdown.
  • Foodstuffs
    Foodstuffs
    Foodstuffs is a group of three New Zealand grocery and liquor retailers' cooperatives based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch which collectively control an estimated 57% of the New Zealand grocery market...

    • Four Square supermarkets
      Four Square supermarkets
      Four Square is a chain of supermarkets in New Zealand. During the 1950s the Foodstuffs advertising department designed the famous "Mr 4 Square" who initially appeared only in newspaper advertising and posters, but was developed to become part of the Four Square identity, appearing in every Four...

    • New World
      New World (supermarket)
      New World is a New Zealand full-service supermarket chain owned by the Foodstuffs cooperative.Founded in 1963, New World was the first American-style full-service supermarket brand of Foodstuffs, and the second in New Zealand...

    • Pak'n Save
      Pak'n Save
      Pak'n Save is a New Zealand discount food warehouse chain owned by the Foodstuffs cooperative.Founded in 1985, Pak'n Save was the last of the five current major New Zealand supermarkets to be founded...

    • Write Price
  • Kiwi Coop
  • E-Pacs
  • Check'n Save


Former supermarkets

  • Progressive Enterprises
    • 3Guys - rebranded as Countdown
    • Big Fresh
      Big Fresh
      Big Fresh was opened in 1988 with its first store in Mount Wellington Auckland. Big Fresh offered a wide range of fresh foods, discount groceries in large market-style store. The concept for Big Fresh was based on a Farmers Market with their focus being on their extensive range of fresh foods...

       - rebranded as Woolworths or Countdown
    • Price Chopper
      Price Chopper
      Price Chopper Supermarkets is a chain of supermarkets headquartered in Schenectady, New York. The chain began operating as Central Markets in Schenectady, New York in 1933 and changed its name to Price Chopper in 1973. It is presently owned by the Golub Corporation and run by Neil and Jerel Golub...

       - rebranded as Woolworths or Countdown
  • The Warehouse - shut down their supermarket sections but continues to sell some food items
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