Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. is a Canadian drugstore chain headquartered in Varennes, Quebec.

The company was once the third largest distributor and retailer of pharmaceuticals and related products in North America, with nearly 2,200 drug stores.

The Jean Coutu Group was the first in Canada to set up an online service allowing customers to refill their prescriptions, expanding the concept a year later with the same functionality that could be done over the telephone.

[3] With the majority of its franchises in Quebec, it is the province from which it receives most of its revenue, although it has also gotten a great deal of profit from the United States.

In September 2017, Jean Coutu announced it was in talks to be acquired by Metro Inc, a Canadian supermarket chain, for approximately C$4.50bn.

(Revco had acquired Brooks a few months earlier as part of its acquisition of Hook's-SupeRx, Inc, once a large operator of several pharmacy chains.)

In the second quarter of 2005, the company recorded a $19.7 million US foreign exchange loss on items related to the Eckerd acquisition.

[9] In August 2022, a Quebec pharmacist made headlines by refusing to sell a customer emergency oral contraception, better known as the morning-after pill, because it went against his religious beliefs.