Walmart Canada

Who owns it

No filing-sourced ownership yet. That means we haven’t found a filing — not that the company has no owners.

1 further ownership link is recorded, but not from a filing we can point you to, so it is not shown here.

What’s documented

• 2024-11-22regulatoryActionOn November 22, 2024, Walmart Canada announced it would unilaterally waive competitive retail restrictions in its commercial lease agreements with landlords amid a Competition Bureau investigation into restrictive real estate covenants used by major Canadian grocers. The Bureau's broader probe focused on how restrictive clauses in grocery anchor-tenant leases were preventing competitors from opening in the same shopping centres, thereby reducing grocery competition. Walmart Canada notified landlords of the change voluntarily.source →
• 2024-07-26legalProceedingWalmart Canada remained a named defendant in an ongoing class action lawsuit alleging participation in a national bread price-fixing conspiracy from approximately 2001 to 2015. The lawsuit covers Walmart Canada, Sobeys, Metro, Canada Bread, and Giant Tiger, and remained active after Loblaw Companies and George Weston Limited settled for $500 million in July 2024. Walmart Canada has not settled.source →
• 2022-07-01legalProceedingWalmart Canada agreed to a class action settlement of up to $530,000 in Quebec related to a pricing error on April 4–5, 2021, in which items listed at $3.49 on Walmart.ca were confirmed at checkout, then had their orders cancelled by the retailer. Settlement was subject to court approval at a hearing scheduled for November 26, 2024. Class members received Walmart gift cards as compensation.source →

What we’ve classified so far

• monopoly abuse1

2 further documented actions have not been classified yet. These counts show what we have got to, not a total.