The 2018 Top 75 — Sales Overview

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1

Walmart Inc.

$266.21*

$257.16*

Jan.

5834

Walmart; Sam's Club

Bentonville Ark. 

Mass merchant

C. Douglas McMillon / president and CEO

U.S. ($252.01 billion) and Canada ($14.20 billion) consumables estimates stem from reported shares of Walmart stores' sales of 56% from groceries and 11% from health products; and shares of Sam's Club sales of 59% from groceries and consumables; and 6% from health and wellness products. Those shares where appropriate along with Canada-specific modeling were applied to estimated Walmart Inc. fiscal 2017-18 worldwide net sales of $497.2 billion (+3.3%) including U.S. Walmart-brand sales of $318.9 billion; international sales of $119.3 billion; and Sam's Club U.S. sales of $59.0 billion. The company had estimated fiscal 2017-18 worldwide stores of 11730 compared with 11695 worldwide stores at the end of fiscal 2016-17.

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2

The Kroger Co. 

117.92

112.3

Jan.

3651

Supermarkets (Kroger; Ralphs; Dillons; Smith's; Roundy's; King Soopers; Fry's; QFC; City Market; Owen's; Jay C; Pay Less; Baker's; Gerbes; Harris Teeter; Pick N' Save; Copps; Metro Market; Mariano's); multi-department stores (Fred Meyer; Dillons Marketplace; Fry's Marketplace; King Soopers Marketplace; Kroger Marketplace; Smith's Marketplace); price impact warehouse stores (Food 4 Less; Foods Co.); convenience stores (Kwik Shop Inc.; Loaf N' Jug; Quik Stop Markets Inc.; Tom Thumb Food Stores; Turkey Hill Minit Markets; Smith's Express).

Cincinnati

Mass merchant; traditional supermarket; discount format; convenience store

W. Rodney McMullen / chairman and CEO

Reported and estimated fiscal 2017-18 sales of $117.92 billion exclude "other" revenue from 307 freestanding jewelry stores; supply sales to others; variable interest entities; a specialty pharmacy; in-store health clinics; and online sales by Vitacost.com which totaled an estimated $4.44 billion in the year ending last month. Those "other" revenues were a reported $3.04 billion in the prior year when total sales were reported at $115.34 billion. Jewelry stores are not included in store-count totals.

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3

Costco Wholesale Corp. 

66.10*

62.80*

Aug.

611

Costco

Issaquah Wash.

Club format

W. Craig Jelinek / president and CEO

In the latest year consumables represented 60% of net sales (excluding membership fees) of about $91.81 billion from the United States and $18.36 billion from Canada. Categories included in that share were food (21%); sundries (20%); and fresh food (14%) as well as an assumed share for health and beauty aids (5%). Costco's worldwide fiscal 2017 net sales were $126.17 billion from a year-end 741 warehouse stores including 514 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico; 97 in Canada; and 130 elsewhere.

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4

Albertsons Cos. Inc. 

60.15

59.68

Feb.

2330

Albertsons; Safeway; Vons; Jewel-Osco; Shaw's; Acme; Tom Thumb; Randalls; United Supermarkets; Pavilions; Star Market; Carrs and Haggen

Boise Idaho

Traditional supermarket

Robert Miller / chairman and CEO

Estimated latest-year sales and store counts based on company reported results for the first half of fiscal 2017-18 ended in September 2017 of 0.1% higher revenue to $32.29 billion and 0.3% more stores at 2328 as well as historic results and recent general industry conditions and trends including assumed improved second-half identical-store-sales results from reduced pricing pressures as suggested by positive CPI numbers for food at home for multiple months beginning in September. In September 2017 acquired DineInFresh Inc. doing business as Plated a provider of meal kit services.

5

6

Ahold Delhaize 

42.33

34.12

Dec.

1960

Stop & Shop; Giant; Peapod; Everything Fresh; Food Lion; Hannaford

Carlisle Pa.

Traditional supermarket; urban fresh

Dick Boer / president and CEO; Kevin Holt / CEO Ahold Delhaize USA

Estimated 24% growth in latest-year U.S. sales to $42.33 billion reflects the additional six months of operating results from the 1200-plus Delhaize America stores acquired in the preceding year in July 2016 by Ahold USA parent Royal Ahold of the Netherlands as well as comparable-store sales trends and reported store counts at Ahold and Delhaize U.S. operations through the third quarter of fiscal 2017-18 ended in September.

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5

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. 

35.20

34.99

Dec.

2423

Loblaws; Provigo; Zehrs; No Frills; Real Canadian Superstore and Maxi; Shoppers Drug Mart; T&T; Wholesale Club; Fortinos; Arz and Gas Bar.

Toronto

Traditional supermarket; drug store; discount format

Galen G. Weston / executive chairman and president

In its native Canadian currency Loblaw Cos. estimated fiscal 2017 sales rose approximately 0.6% to $45.65 billion from a reported $45.38 billion in fiscal 2016. For the 2018 Top 75 the sales reported for Loblaw Cos. for all years included prescription medicine and other pharmacy back-of-counter sales as well as front-of-counter sales from retail pharmacy operations. In July 2017 the company sold its 213 retail gas stations and associated convenience kiosks with annual sales of about $1.6 billion (CAD) to Brookfield Business Partners L.P. for approximately $540 million (CAD).

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7

Publix Super Markets Inc.

34.34

34.00

Dec.

1164

Publix Super Markets

Lakeland Fla.

Traditional supermarket

Randall T. "Todd" Jones Sr. / president and CEO

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9

Target Corp. 

32.69*

30.58*

Jan.

1834

Target

Minneapolis

Mass merchant

Brian Cornell / chairman and CEO

Consumables sales estimate represents 45.5% share of estimated total sales of $71.85 billion for the 53-week 2017-18 fiscal year ended last month versus a reported 44% share of actual 52-week 2016-17 sales of $69.50 billion. Making up that latest-year estimated consumables mix is "household essentials" including pet supplies with an estimated 25% share of sales and "food-and-beverage" sales with an approximate 20.5% sales share.

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8

C&S Wholesale Grocers 

31.48

31.42

Sept.

0

Keene N.H.

Wholesaler

Rick Cohen / executive chairman; Mike Duffy / CEO

C&S Wholesale Grocers' fiscal 2017 sales estimate primarily reflects assumed gain from approximately 10 additional weeks of business in the latest fiscal year by the operations of FreshKO Produce Services Inc. acquired by C&S near the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2016.

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10

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Walgreen Co.) 

26.71*

27.32*

Aug.

8100

Walgreens; Duane Reade

Deerfield Ill.

Drug chain

Stefano Pessina / executive vice chairman and CEO

Latest year consumables sales represents reported 30.6% "retail" share of fiscal 2017 U.S. Pharmacy Retail division total sales of $87.30 billion. "Retail" sales are all those except from prescription drugs and pharmacy services. Fiscal 2017 worldwide sales for all divisions and countries including international pharmacy retail and pharmaceutical wholesale divisions were $118.21 billion. The company ended the fiscal year with 12822 retail stores worldwide including 8100 in the United States.

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11

H-E-B 

23.12

21.62

Oct.

336

H-E-B

San Antonio

Traditional supermarket; mass merchant; Hispanic format; convenience store

Charles C. Butt / chairman and CEO

Sales and store numbers shown exclude results from operations in Mexico which in fiscal 2017 included 60 stores and generated estimated sales of about $1.48 billion compared with fiscal 2016 approximate Mexico estimated sales of $1.38 billion from a year-end 52 stores. For all operations including those in Mexico H-E-B reported consolidated fiscal 2017 companywide sales rounded to the nearest hundred million dollars of $24.6 billion up 7% from $23 billion in fiscal 2016 and total stores of 396 also up about 7% from the preceding year's 370 stores.

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12

CVS Health Corp. 

19.71*

20.20*

Dec. 

9730

CVS Pharmacy; CVS; Longs Drugs; Navarro Discount Pharmacy 

Woonsocket R.I. 

Drug chain

Larry J. Merlo / president and CEO

Estimated consumables sales for fiscal 2017 ended in December represent the non-prescription-drug share or 25% of estimated total U.S. retail pharmacy and long-term care (LTC) business sales of $78.82 billion. The non-prescription-drug share was 25% of reported division sales in fiscal 2016 when estimated U.S. pharmacy and long-term care sales reached $80.81 billion. Store count and sales shown exclude retail pharmacies in Brazil with an estimated 38 operating at year-end fiscal 2017 when they generated an estimated 0.4% of divisional sales. Total estimated fiscal 2017 net sales from pharmacy services as well as retail-LTC affairs were $183.96 billion compared with FY16's $177.53 billion.

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14

Meijer Inc.

18.94

17.84

Jan.

237

Meijer

Grand Rapids Mich.

Mass merchant

Hank Meijer / general chairman; Rick Keyes / president and CEO

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13

Sobeys Inc. (Empire Co. Ltd.)  

18.92

18.60

May 

1927

Sobeys; Safeway; IGA extra; Thrifty Foods; IGA; Foodland; FreshCo; Price Chopper; Lawtons Drugs

Stellarton Novia Scotia

Traditional supermarket; convenience store; drug store; urban fresh

Michael Medline / president and CEO

In native Canadian currency estimated sales for fiscal 2017-18 ended in May 2018 are $24.22 billion (Canadian) up 1.7% from reported fiscal 2016-17 sales of $23.81 billion on the basis of forecast growth in the second nine months of store-base growth or about 0.7% and same-store-sales improvement of about 1.1%.

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15

Dollar General Corp.  

18.02*

16.80*

Jan.

14511

Dollar General

Goodlettsville Tenn.

Dollar chain

Todd Vasos / CEO

Estimated consumables sales for the fiscal year ended in January 2018 represent an estimated 76.6% share of total estimated sales of $23.53 billion arrived at using reported nine-month results and company net sales and new-store opening guidance among other modeling tools. Dollar General reports as "consumables" such things as household supplies including cleaning products and disposable dinnerware; packaged foods; perishable foods; snacks; health and beauty aids; pet supplies; and tobacco products. It reported consumable sales as 76.4% of total sales in fiscal 2016-17. Among the 1285 stores the company said it expected to open in fiscal 2017-18 were 263 stores acquired and rebannered through the third quarter of the fiscal year including more than 300 Family Dollar stores acquired from private equity firm Sycamore Partners in June 2017.

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18

7-Eleven Inc. (Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd.)

16.90

14.95

Dec.

9895

7-Eleven

Dallas

Convenience store

Joseph M. DePinto / president and CEO

Sales figures are for in-store merchandise only excluding estimated or reported fuel sales. Estimated merchandise sales shown for the fiscal year ended in December 2017 reflect an assumed 59.3% share of total sales from merchandise versus a 40.7% gasoline share. That 59.3% share was applied to estimated fiscal 2017 United States-Canada total sales of $28.55 billion. Full-year sales; merchandise-sales share; and year-end store estimates were based on first-half reported results and second-half fiscal 2017 forecasts by 7-Eleven parent Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd. Seven & i Holdings officials indicated that the second-half forecast included the assumption that an announced acquisition of about 1100 convenience stores and gas stations from Sunoco LP for about $3.3 billion would close before the end of the fiscal year ended on or around Dec. 31 2017.

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19

Aldi Inc. (USA)

16.80

14.31

Dec.

1695

Aldi

Batavia Ill.

Limited-assortment discounter

Jason Hart / CEO

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17

Wakefern Food Corp.  

16.30

16.00

Sept.

96

Price Rite; ShopRite

Keasbey N.J.

Retailer-owned cooperative; wholesaler; traditional supermarkets

Joseph Colalillo / chairman and CEO 

At fiscal 2017 year-end in September Wakefern a retailer-owned cooperative operated an estimated 63 corporate stores under the Price Rite banner and 33 ShopRite stores. It reported the aggregate retail sales of its members but did not disclose the percentage of those sales from its own stores nor did it disclose its wholesale sales numbers. Three cooperative members -- Saker ShopRite; Village Super Markets; and Inserra Supermarkets -- are also ranked among the Top 75 and their sales are shown both individually and included among the aggregate cooperative member sales reported by Wakefern.

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16

Supervalu Inc. 

15.94

16.01

Feb.

217

Cub Foods; Shoppers Food & Pharmacy; Shop 'n Save; Farm Fresh and Hornbacher's; plus two Rainbow and two County Market stores

Eden Prairie Minn.

Wholesaler; traditional supermarket; discount format

Mark Gross / president and CEO

Estimated net sales for the latest fiscal year ended this month were favorably impacted by the December 2017 acquisition of Associated Grocers of Florida with reported annual sales of about $650 million and the June 2017 acquisition of Unified Grocers Inc. which had preceding fiscal-year sales of about $3.86 billion. Offsetting those latest-year gains were the approximately $3.53 billion lower sales in the latest year resulting from the preceding fiscal year -- December 2016 -- sale of the 1370-store Save-A-Lot chain to an affiliate of Onex Corp. for $1.37 billion in cash.

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34

Amazon.com

14.00*

6.20*

Dec.

466

Seattle

Online retailer; natural retailer; convenience store

Jeffrey P. Bezos / chairman president and CEO; John Mackey / CEO Whole Foods Market

Estimated North America consumables sales of $14 billion in the recently ended (December) fiscal year largely reflects assumptions of year-over-year organic growth of 43.5% in sales to about $8.9 billion from AmazonFresh and other Amazon online grocery and consumables sales initiatives as well as an estimated $5.1 billion gain from the first four months of operation of 466 U.S.-Canada brick-and-mortar stores owned by Whole Foods Market which was acquired by Amazon in late August. Supermarket News has based its latest Amazon consumables sales model on research by Planet Retail/RNG whose estimates helped inform SN's 2017 Digital Top 10 sales numbers including the scenario that Amazon saw fiscal 2016 U.S. "supermarket-type" product sales of about $6.2 billion. Building on that the SN model considered the quarterly "Insights" reports on Amazon consumables sales from One Click Retail which pegged third-quarter fiscal 2017 sales of such goods in the U.S. alone at nearly $2.5 billion. One Click Retail's research and data suggested that Amazon grocery sales including Whole Foods online sales but not brick-and-mortar sales contributions likely topped $2 billion in the U.S. alone in the recently completed fiscal year. Amazon.com had estimated 2017 worldwide sales of $176.41 billion up 29.7% from reported fiscal 2016 sales of $135.99 billion with estimated or reported fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016 North America sales of $104.59 billion (+31.1%) and $79.79 billion respectively. Whole Foods Market which previously was part of the Top 75 roster on a pro-forma basis showing results as a freestanding public company and from its first month of ownership by Amazon said it had North America and United Kingdom sales of $16.03 billion for the 12 months ended in September 2017 from 461 U.S.-Canada stores and nine stores in the U.K. which was up 1.9% from $15.72 billion in its preceding fiscal year.

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21

Dollar Tree Inc. 

13.73*

12.85*

Jan.

14909

Dollar Tree; Family Dollar and Dollar Tree Canada

Chesapeake Va.

Dollar chain

Gary Philbin / president and CEO

Latest-year estimated consumables sales represents an assumed blended consumables share of 61.7% of estimated total sales of $22.24 billion for both the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar chains for the fiscal year ended last month (January 2018). The actual blended consumables share was 62% in the preceding year. Supermarket News estimated that the Family Dollar brand would end the fiscal year with 8208 U.S. stores up from 7974 at the end of the preceding year and that Dollar Tree ended the latest fiscal year with 6701 stores in the U.S and Canada up from 6360 a year earlier.

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20

Trader Joe's Co.

13.56

13.15

June

480

Trader Joe's

Monrovia Calif.

Limited-assortment discounter

Dan Bane / chairman and CEO

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26

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. 

11.50

9.52

April

9987

Circle K; Corner Store; Couche-Tard; Mac's; Kangaroo Express; CST; On the Run; Holiday Stationstores  

Laval Quebec

Convenience store

Brian Hannasch / president and CEO

Sales figures exclude results for franchised or licensed stores included among the total stores figures shown for the company in the Store Overview data table as the company does not provide franchised- or licensed-store sales details. The 2017-18 and 2016-17 reported or estimated total stores shown for Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. included 1879 and 1666 franchised or licensed stores respectively. Sales reflect in-store merchandise only excluding estimated or reported fuel sales and for fiscal 2017-18 represent a 30.5% share of estimated total U.S.-Canada company-store revenue of $37.70 billion. Fiscal 2017-18 sales and store count estimates include assumed impact from the company’s reported acquisition of Holiday Station stores Inc. on or around Dec. 22 which added to its portfolio 374 company and 148 franchised Holiday Stationstore locations in the United States. Terms were not disclosed. During its latest year in June 2017 closed on the acquisition of CST Brands Inc. of San Antonio in a transaction valued at $4.4 billion that saw Alimentation Couche-Tard add approximately 1321 company or joint-venture stores and 46 franchised or licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada.

24

24

Metro Inc.  

10.04

9.74

Sept.

853

Metro (Plus); Super C; Food Basics; Adonis; Premie_re Moisson; Brunet pharmacies; Metro Pharmacy; Drug Basics

Montreal

Traditional supermarket; discounter; drugstores

Eric R. La Fleche / president and CEO

Fiscal 2017 sales in the company's native Canadian currency increased 3% to $13.18 billion from fiscal 2016 sales of $12.79 billion. At the end of fiscal 2017 Metro Inc. operated 360 company markets including those under Metro Super C and Food Basics banners operated pharmacies in 73 of those stores and franchised or licensed 201 Metro stores and 183 Brunet pharmacies. Also included in Metro Inc.'s 2018 Top 75 store counts for both the latest and preceding fiscal years are 11 Adonis Mediterranean foods stores and 25 Premiere Moisson bakeries whose designations as corporate-owned; joint venture; or franchised outlets were unclear.

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23

Hy-Vee Inc.

10.00

9.80

Sept.

245

Hy-Vee; Hy-Vee Drugstore

West Des Moines Iowa

Traditional supermarket; drugstore; convenience store

Randy Edeker / chairman CEO and president

26

22

Southeastern Grocers LLC 

9.90

10.5

Dec.

705

BI-LO; Harveys; Winn-Dixie; Fresco Y Mas 

Jacksonville Fla.

Traditional supermarket; discount; Hispanic format

Anthony Hucker / president and CEO

Decrease in estimated sales based on assumed levels of sales lost from the net 45 stores closed or divested during the year and continued though not drastic decreases in same-store sales at some brands. Partially offsetting those developments were the positive receptions afforded to opened or converted stores under the emerging brand; Fresco y M's; and growth within the Harveys chain.

27

25

BJ's Wholesale Club 

9.78*

9.62*

Jan.

215

BJ's Wholesale Club

Westborough Mass.

Club format

Christopher J. Baldwin / president and CEO

28

27

Associated Wholesale Grocers 

9.70

9.18

Dec.

6

Homeland; United Supermarkets; Cash Saver and Price Chopper

Kansas City Kan.

Wholesale cooperative

David Smith / president and CEO

In October 2016 completed its merger with another Top 75 retailer-owned wholesale food co-operative Affiliated Foods Midwest keeping the AWG name and claiming a combined membership of more than 1000 in 35 states. The six corporate stores run by AWG are believed to generate less than 1% of the company's total sales. The wholesaler ended the fiscal year with 12 Earth Origins stores. Those 12 stores are believed to have generated less than 5% of total sales while unspecified international sales to countries outside of Canada amounted to less than 4% of sales. Latest and preceding fiscal-years sales generation benefited from several acquisitions of distributors and merchandisers including Gourmet Guru Inc. in fiscal 2017 and Global Organic/Specialty Source Inc.; Nor-Cal Produce Inc.; and Haddon House Food Products Inc. _ all in fiscal 2016. 

29,30,United Natural Foods Inc. ,9.27,8.47,July,12,Earth Origins,Providence R.I.,Natural/organic wholesale distributor,Steven L. Spinner / president CEO and chairman,

30,28,Giant Eagle ,8.90,8.90,June,412,Giant Eagle (+Express); Market District (+Express); GetGo,Pittsburgh,Traditional supermarket; convenience stores,Laura Shapira Karet / president and CEO,

31,31,Wegmans Food Markets Inc.,8.50,8.30,Dec.,95,Wegmans,Rochester N.Y.,Traditional supermarket,Danny Wegman / chairman; Colleen Wegman / president and CEO,

32,32,SpartanNash Co. 24,7.99,7.73,Dec.,144,Family Fare Supermarkets; Family Fresh Markets; D&W Fresh Markets; Sun Mart,Grand Rapids Mich.,Wholesaler; traditional supermarket; limited-assortment discount; Hispanic format,Dave Staples / president and CEO,Estimated corporate retail store sales for fiscal year ended in December 2017 were about $2.04 billion or 25.5% of total estimated fiscal 2017 sales of $7.99 billion from the company's consolidated retail and wholesale and military distribution divisions. Retail stores contributed about 26.9% of sales in fiscal 2016.

33,29,Rite Aid Corp.  25,7.98*,8.50*,Feb.,3574,Rite Aid,Camp Hill Pa.,Drug chain,John T. Standley / chairman and CEO,Estimated 5.9% decrease in fiscal 2017-18 consumables sales primarily reflects one less week of business during the 52-week year retail pharmacy same-store sales fall off of 4.1% for the first half of the year and a Supermarket News Research assumption that Rite Aid Corp. will by fiscal year year-end this month (February 2018) have transferred 933 of the 1932 stores the company was given regulatory approval in September to sell to Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. That transfer process which Rite Aid said would leave it with about 2575 stores began in November 2017 with the handoff of 97 stores but as of the close of the Top 75 research cycle company officials had not publicized a detailed timetable for the transfer of the remaining stores. Consumables sales for the 2017-18 fiscal year reflect an estimated 32.2% share of total estimated retail pharmacy division sales of $24.79 billion with the remaining 67.8% share of sales attributed to prescription drug sales. Rite Aid total sales for fiscal 2017-18 including those for prescription drug and pharmacy services are estimated to be $30.28 billion which would compare with fiscal 2016-17 reported sales of $32.85 billion.

34,33,WinCo Foods LLC,7.02,6.5,April ,119,WinCo Foods; Waremart by WinCo,Boise Idaho,Discounter,Steven Goddard / president and CEO,Shown 1400% growth in estimated fiscal 2017 sales reflects results of first full year of operation under new owner Onex Corp. or estimated sales of $4.47 billion compared with less than a month of post-acquisition sales or a reported $324 million in fiscal 2016 when Save-A-Lot was sold by previous owner Supervalu Inc. to an affiliate of Onex Corp. in December 2016. Following the change in ownership Save-A-Lot moved from a fiscal year ended in February to one that typically ends in December. Reported or estimated sales for both years shown are for fiscal years ended in December. On pro-forma basis showing full-year results under both owners for the 12 months ended in December 2016 Save-A-Lot had estimated sales of $4.56 billion.

35,35,Demoulas Super Markets Inc.,5.00,4.80,Dec.,79,Market Basket,Tewksbury Mass.,Traditional supermarket,Arthur T. Demoulas / president and CEO,

36,39,Sprouts Farmers Market Inc.,4.67,4.05,Dec.,285,Sprouts Farmers Market,Phoenix,Natural foods retailer,Amin N. Maredia / CEO,

37,36,Smart & Final Stores Inc.,4.58,4.34,Dec.,323,Smart & Final; Smart & Final Extra!; Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice,Commerce Calif.,Grocery warehouse format,David. G. Hirz / president and CEO,

38,75,Save-A-Lot (Onex Corp.),4.47,0.32,Dec.,1344,Save-A-Lot,St. Louis,Discounter,Kenneth McGrath / CEO,

39,37,Stater Bros. Markets,4.34,4.27,Sept.,170,Stater Bros. Markets,San Bernardino Calif.,Traditional supermarket; warehouse grocery concept,Pete Van Helden / president and CEO,

40,38,The Save Mart Cos.,4.10,4.20,Dec.,207,Save Mart; Lucky; Lucky California; FoodMaxx; S-Mart; MaxxValue,Modesto Calif.,Discount chain,Nicole Pesco / CEO,

41,40,Overwaitea Food Group ,4.04,3.82,Dec.,163,Save-On Food; Overwaitea; Urban Fare; PriceSmart Foods; Bulkley Valley Wholesale,Langley British Columbia,Traditional supermarket; discounter,Darrell Jones / president,In its native Canadian currency Overwaitea's estimated fiscal 2017 sales grew by about 5.9% to $5.24 billion from $4.95 billion. Overwaitea is the primarily Save-On Foods bannered retail division of the multi-industry Jim Pattison Group and historically counts for more than half of its total revenue.

42,41,Ingles Markets Inc.,4,3.8,Sept.,199,Ingles; Sav-Mor,Asheville N.C.,Traditional supermarket,James Lanning /president and CEO,

43,42,Price Chopper/Market 32 (The Golub Corp.),3.84,3.79,April,134,Price Chopper; Market 32; Market Bistro,Schenectady N.Y.,Traditional supermarket,Scott Grimmett / president and CEO,

44,44,Weis Markets Inc.,3.48,3.14,Dec.,205,Weis Markets,Sunbury Pa. ,Traditional supermarket,Jonathan H. Weis / chairman president and CEO,Growth in estimated fiscal 2017 sales of 10.8% largely reflects the first full year of operation for the net 41 stores opened or acquired in fiscal 2016 including 38 Food Lion stores purchased from Delhaize which amounted to a 25.2% increase from the company's fiscal 2015 year-end store inventory of 163 stores. Higher same-store sales _ up by 1.6% for the first nine months of fiscal 2017 _ also contributed to the increase in latest-year sales. 

45,43,Raley's,3.24,3.16,June,125,Raley's; Bel Air Markets; Nob Hill Foods; Food Source ,West Sacramento Calif.,Traditional supermarket,Michael Teel / CEO; Keith Knopf / president,

46,45,Houchens Industries,3.12,3.12,Sept.,412,Save-A-Lot; Food Giant; Pic N Save; Mad Butcher; Piggly Wiggly; Market Place; Sureway; Big Star; Greenwood Market Place; Cash Saver; Hank's Markets; IGA; price Le$$ foods; Jr. Food ,Bowling Green Ky.,Traditional supermarket; convenience stores; discount stores,Jimmie Gipson / CEO,

47,47,Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc.,2.81,2.65,April,262,Key Food; Food Universe; The Food Emporium; SuperFresh; Food Dynasty; Marketplace; Gala Fresh Farms; Vitelio's Marketplace; Brooklyn Fare; Holiday Farms; Manor Market; Food World; Tropical; Windsor Farms Market; 55 Fulton Market; Locust Valley Market; Urban Market; Key Fresh & Natural,Staten Island N.Y.,Retailer cooperative; traditional supermarket; urban fresh,Dean Janeway / CEO,Sales shown represent an estimate of retail sales by all cooperative member stores including Key Food's two corporate stores for the fiscal year ending in April 2018 as well as the projected aggregate number of stores expected to be operating at that fiscal year-end.

48,46,Schnuck Markets Inc.,2.70,2.70,Sept.,100,Schnucks,St. Louis,Traditional supermarket,Todd R. Schnuck / chairman and CEO,

48,48,Tops Markets LLC (Tops Holding II Corp.),2.70,2.60,Dec.,174,Tops Friendly Markets; Orchard Fresh,Williamsville N.Y.,Traditional supermarket,Frank Curci / chairman and CEO,

50,49,K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.,2.45,2.41,Dec.,133,Food City; Super Dollar Discount Foods,Abingdon Va.,Traditional supermarket,Steven C. Smith / president and CEO,

51,51,Brookshire Grocery Co.,2.37,2.1,Sept.,176,Brookshire's Food Stores; Super 1 Foods Stores; Spring Market; Fresh by Brookshire's; Express Lane; Zippy B,Tyler Texas,Traditional supermarket,Bradley W. Brookshire / chairman and CEO,Latest-year 12.9% growth in estimated sales largely reflects an additional week of operation in the latest fiscal year -- 53 weeks versus 52 -- as well as the first full year of operation of 25 Walmart Express stores acquired for conversion to the company's Spring Market banner in July 2016. The addition of the Walmart Express stores represented an increase of 16.4% to Brookshire Grocery's fiscal 2015 year-end store count of 152.

52,51,Alex Lee Inc.,2.20,2.10,Sept.,84,Lowes Foods; Just$ave; Merchant Distributors Inc.,Hickory N.C.,Wholesale distributor; traditional supermarkets,Boyd George / chairman; Brian George / president and CEO,

52,50,Bozzuto's Inc.,2.20,2.20,Sept.,9,Bozzuto's,Cheshire Conn.,Wholesale distributor,Michael A. Bozzuto / chairman president and CEO,

54,53,Associated Food Stores,2.11,2.07,Dec.,43,Macey's; Fresh Market; Dan's Fresh Market; Lin's Fresh Market; Dick's Fresh Market; Honey Bee Produce Co. ,Salt Lake City,Wholesaler,Neil Berube / president and CEO,

55,54,Grocery Outlet Inc. (Hellman & Friedman LLC),2.00,1.90,Dec.,293,Grocery Outlet Bargain Market,Emeryville Calif.,Grocery Outlet Bargain Market,Eric Lindberg and MacGregor Read / co-CEOs,

56,57,Big Y Foods Inc.,1.96,1.74,Dec.,78,Big Y Supermarkets; Big Y Express (fuel and c-store); Table & Vine Fine Wines and Liquor; Fresh Acres Market,Springfield Mass. ,Traditional supermarket; convenience store,Donald D'Amour / chairman and CEO; Charles D'Amour / president and COO,

57,55,Saker ShopRites Inc.,1.86,1.82,Oct.,31,ShopRite; Dearborn Market & Garden Center,Freehold N.J.,Traditional supermarket,Richard Saker/ president CEO and chairman,

58,61,99 Cents Only Stores LLC ,1.77*,1.62*,Jan.,388,99 Cents Only,Commerce Calif.,Dollar chain,Geoffrey J. Covert / president and CEO,

59,58,Superior Grocers,1.75,1.73,Dec.,45,Superior Grocers,Santa Fe Springs Calif.,Traditional supermarket,Mimi Song / president and CEO,

59,56,The Fresh Market Inc. (Apollo Global Management LLC),1.75,1.81,Jan.,176,The Fresh Market,Greensboro N.C. ,Traditional supermarket,Larry Appel / president and CEO,

61,59,Woodman's Food Market Inc.,1.70,1.70,Sept.,16,Woodman's Markets,Janesville Wis.,Traditional supermarket,Phil Woodman / chairman; Clint Woodman / president,

62,60,Village Super Market Inc.,1.6,1.63,July,29,ShopRite,Springfield N.J.,Traditional supermarket,James Sumas / chairman and CEO,

63,62,Affiliated Foods Inc.,1.50,1.50,Sept.,0,,Amarillo Texas,Wholesaler,Randy Arcenaux / president and CEO,

64,63,Bashas' Inc.,1.44,1.46,Dec.,115,Bashas'; Eddie's Country Store; AJ's Fine Foods; Food City; Bashas' Diné,Chandler Ariz.,Traditional supermarket,Edward "Trey" Bahsa III / chairman president and CEO

65

66

Bodega Latina Corp. (Grupo Comercial Chedraui S.A.B. de C.V.) 

1.40

1.36

Dec.

58

El Super

Paramount Calif.

Hispanic format

Carlos Smith / president and CEO

In the native currency of Mexican pesos of its reporting parent Grupo Comercial Chedraui S.A.B. de C.V. Bodega Latina Corp. had estimated sales for the fiscal year ended in December 2017 of 26.31 billion pesos which was up approximately 2.6% from reported fiscal 2016 sales of 25.65 billion pesos.

65

64

Coborn's Inc.

1.40

1.40

Dec.

105

Coborn's; Coborn's Express; Cash Wise Foods; Save-A-Lot; Little Duke's; Holiday Station; Ace Hardware; Subway

St. Cloud Minn.

Traditional supermarket; discount format; online retail

Chris Coburn / president and CEO

65

64

Piggly Wiggly Midwest

1.40

1.40

Dec.

113

Piggly Wiggly; Butera Market

Sheboygan Wis. 

Traditional supermarket; company-owned and franchised stores

Paul Butera / chairman and CEO

68

67

Inserra Supermarkets Inc.

1.32

1.31

Dec.

24

ShopRite; Price Rite; Price Rite Marketplace

Mahwah N.J.

Traditional supermarket

Lawrence Inserra Jr. / chairman and CEO; Ron Onorato / president and COO

69

68

Fareway Stores Inc.

1.30

1.30

Oct.

118

Fareway; Omaha Meat Market

Boone Iowa

Traditional supermarket

Reynolds W. Cramer / CEO

70

71

Rouses Enterprises LLC 

1.24

1.02

Dec.

55

Rouses Markets

Thibodaux La.

Traditional supermarket

Donald Rouse Jr. / CEO

Latest-year sales growth of 21.6% primarily reflects the first full year of operations for nine LeBlanc's Food Stores acquired late in fiscal 2016 as well as organic growth in net stores of one in fiscal 2017 and two in fiscal 2016.

71

69

Brookshire Brothers

1.13

1.11

April

251

Brookshire Brothers (+Pharmacy; +Express); Cormie's Grocery; Tobacco Barn; David's; David's Express; Pecan Foods

Lufkin Texas

Traditional supermarket; c-stores

John Alston / president and CEO

72

70

Vallarta Supermarkets Inc. 

1.06

1.03

Dec.

50

Vallarta Supermarkets

Sylmar Calif.

Hispanic format

Enrique Gonzalez Jr. / president and CEO

73

71

Northgate Gonzalez Markets LLC

1.03

1.02

Dec.

40

Northgate Gonzalez Market

Anaheim Calif.

Hispanic format

Miguel Gonzalez Reynoso and Oscar Gonzalez Reynoso / co-presidents

74

74

Festival Foods (Skogen's Foodliner Inc.)

1.00

0.91

Oct.

28

Festival Foods; Lakeside Foods

Onalaska Wis.

Traditional supermarket

Mark Skogen / president and CEO

74

73

Lowe's Market (Pay and Save Inc.) 

1.00

1.00

Aug.

151

Lowe's Market; Food King Food Jets (primary banners); Shop 'n Save; Lowe's Family Center; Lowe's Mercado; Lowe's Super $ave Discount Foods; La Feria; Big 8 Food Stores; Ace; Fiesta Foods

Littlefield Texas

Traditional supermarket; Hispanic format

Roger Lowe Jr. / CEO