Home Depot vs RONA: who is cheaper on the same products?

We only count a product when both banners carry it, so a missing line is skipped rather than guessed. RONA is cheaper on 6 of them, Home Depot on 3, with 0 ties.

We left out 2x4x8 SPF stud: one banner's lowest listing is an economy grade board and the other's is not, which is not a fair match.

A price gap of a few percent on a stud is small in dollars and large on a truckload, so look at the gap on the products you actually buy. The brand can differ from one banner to the other: we match the size and the type, and the footnote gives the dates.

RONA was founded in Quebec as a cooperative of independent hardware dealers. It was owned by Lowe's from 2016, and in 2023 Lowe's sold its Canadian retail business, RONA included, to the American private equity firm Sycamore Partners. In 2024 the Réno-Dépôt warehouse stores became RONA+, so a search for Réno-Dépôt now lands on a RONA store.

Home Depot is an American home improvement chain with stores across Canada. Both banners sell to homeowners and to contractors, and both run programs for professionals, so compare the terms against your own volume.

As of spring 2026, RONA counts roughly 125 points of service in Quebec across its banners, corporate and affiliated stores included, and Home Depot counts 31 stores in the province, mostly in cities. The two lists change, so check each banner's store finder for your area.

Delivery is where the totals split. Both banners deliver to a job site, with fees that depend on the distance and the load, so add delivery to the shelf price before you compare a full order.

The next thing is stock. A cheap price on a product that is out of stock at your branch costs you a second trip. Check the branch, not only the website.

The last is the flyer. Both banners publish a new flyer weekly, and a one-week sale can flip the result of a comparison like the one above.

The shelf prices on this page are what Quebec retailers charge. If you build somewhere else, the best official yardstick we have is Statistics Canada's building construction price index, which follows what builders pay for residential building as a whole in each province.

Quebec, where our shelf prices come from, reads 113.3, up 5.0% on a year earlier. Alberta is highest at 117.8 and Ontario lowest at 106.6 in the second quarter of 2026. These are cost indexes set to 100 in a base period: they say how fast residential building costs have moved in each province, not what a single item sells for at your local store. We will publish real shelf prices for your province as it goes live.