Below are financial results for the 10 largest supermarket chains with public equity or public debt. Although reporting periods vary, the chart represents sales, operating income and same-store sales for the two quarters most closely paralleling the first half of the calendar year 2003.
/03-8/1/03
Safeway: $15.3; +2.7%; $818.4; -29.0%; -1.8%*; -1.7%*; 12/29/02-6/14/03
Delhaize America: $7.5; -0.2%; $354.0; +5.4%; -2.2%; +0.7%; 12/29/02-6/28/03
A&P (b): $5.7; +2.1%; $122.0 (a); -34.4%; +0.5%; -0.1%; 12/1/02-6/14/03
Winn-Dixie (c): $5.5; -3.6%; $141.4; -27.7%; -2.0%; -4.5%; 1/9/03-6/25/03
Pathmark: $2.0; +1.8%; $46.3; +6.9%; +1.9%; +0.6%; 2/2/03-8/2/03
Whole Foods (d): $1.5; +15.9%; $89.2; +20.4%; +7.0%; +7.6%; 1/20/03-7/6/03
Stater Bros. (d): $1.4; +3.0%; $33.6; -9.7%; +3.0%; +1.8%; 12/30/02-6/29/03
Harris Teeter (d): $1.2; +3.8%; $46.8; +4.3%+1.1%; +1.7%; 12/31/02-6/29/03
*Same-store sales excluding fuel.
(a) Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; (b) A&P results are for the fourth and first quarters; (c) Winn-Dixie results are for the third and fourth quarters; (d) results for Whole Foods, Stater Bros. and Harris Teeter are for the second and third quarters.
