Largest Supermarkets

by Kevin Surbaugh 

Something that I personally find interesting is business. One thing in particular that I like to follow is the annual ranking of grocery stores.
According to Supermarket News Sales among the Top 75 food retailers in North America recovered from a slump in 2009, rising 7.7% during 2010, compared with a cumulative drop of 0.2% the year before. Total revenues, encompassing sales of food and nonfood merchandise, totaled $960.3 billion last year, compared with $891.4 billion in 2009. Revenues among the 10 largest companies on the list rose 2.2% to $666.1 billion in 2010.

1. Wal-Mart Stores
2. Kroger Co.
3. Costco Wholesale Corp.
4. Safeway
5. Supervalu
6. Loblaw Cos.
7. Publix Super Markets
8. Ahold USA
9. C&S Wholesale Grocers
10. Delhaize America
11. H.E. Butt Grocery Co.
12. Sobeys
13. 7-Eleven
14. Meijer Inc.
15. Dollar General Corp.
16. Wakefern Food Corp.
17. Metro
18. BJ’s Wholesale Club
19. Whole Foods Market
20. Giant Eagle
21. Trader Joe’s Market
22. A&P
23. Family Dollar Stores
24. Associated Wholesale Grocers
25. Hy-Vee Food Stores
- Supermarket News

Now lets compare that list to the top 20 grocery stores (Supermarkets) in 1999

Sales of the 20 Largest Food Retailers Totaled $232 Billion in 1999



1 The Kroger Company/Fred Meyer
2 Albertson's, Inc./American
Stores, Inc(2)
3 Safeway Stores, Inc(3)
4 Ahold, USA
5 Wal-Mart Supercenters(4)
6 Winn-Dixie Stores
7 Publix Supermarkets
8 Delhaize America (Food Lion,
Hannaford Bros.)
9 Meijer Inc.
10 Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Co.
11 H.E. Butt Grocery Company
12 Supervalu(5)
13 Southland Corporation
(7-Eleven)
14 Shaw's Supermarkets
15 Pathmark Stores
16 Hy-Vee Food Stores, Inc.
17 Raley's
18 Aldi USA, Inc.
19 Wegman's Food Markets
20 Grand Union

n. a. = Not applicable.

(1) Sales by U.S. grocery stores, only. Excludes sales by other business units, foreign sales, and franchised sales.

(2) Excludes sales of drugstores.

(3) Includes sales of Randall's Supermarkets, acquired September 1999.

(4) Sales of food and nonfood grocery items only.

(5) Excludes sales other than company-owned grocery stores.

Sources: USDA-ERS estimates and company annual reports.

Also in 1998, the fourth-largest U.S. food retailer, Albertsons, initiated its merger with second-ranked American Stores--operator of Lucky Stores, Jewel, and Acme Markets--resulting in combined sales of $28.9 billion, operating 1,690 supermarkets in 38 States. These mergers are part of a recent strategy among the largest U.S. grocery store retailers to maintain their leading positions while considerably growing in size both by merging with or acquiring other grocery retailers
AllBusiness.com

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