Esso (Imperial Oil) has one of the biggest brand footprints we track in the Vancouver area, partly because so many 7-Eleven and independent corner stores pump Esso-branded fuel — the store sign and the fuel brand are often different companies. That breadth makes Esso the brand you are statistically likely to be nearest to across Metro Vancouver, and it also produces a wide in-brand spread: the gap between the cheapest and priciest Esso on the same day regularly exceeds 5–10 cents per litre.
Esso’s loyalty hook is PC Optimum — Esso and Mobil are the program’s fuel partners — so every litre earns points redeemable on groceries at Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills and the other Loblaw banners. For a household that already shops there, base earn plus the frequent app multipliers works out to roughly 1–2¢/L back in grocery credit on top of the posted price.
The ranked list below refreshes hourly. As with every major here, the cheapest Essos cluster where the discounters are: the SE Marine Drive strip, East Hastings toward Boundary, and the Surrey corridors at the region’s edges.