The 2018 Top 75 — Store Overview

1

21

Dollar Tree Inc. 

14,909

14,334

Jan.

13.73*

12.85*

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.

2

15

Dollar General Corp.  

14,511

13,320

Jan.

18.02*

16.80*

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 ÐconsumablesÓ 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.

3

23

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

9,987

8,103

April

11.5

9.52

Circle K; Corner Store; Couche-Tard; Macys; 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.

4

16

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

9,895

8,707

Dec.

16.9

14.95

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.

5

12

CVS Health Corp. 

9,730

9,672

Dec. 

19.71*

20.20*

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.

6

10

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. 

8,100

8,175

Aug.

26.71*

27.32*

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.

7

1

Walmart Inc. 

5,834

5,742

Jan.

$266.21*

$257.16*

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.

8

2

The Kroger Co.

3,651

3,649

Jan.

117.92

112.3

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.

9

33

Rite Aid Corp.

3,574

4,536

Feb.

7.98*

8.50*

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.

10

6

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. 

2,423

2,424

Dec.

35.20

34.99

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).

11

4

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

2,330

2,324

Feb.

60.15

59.68

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.

12

5

Ahold Delhaize

1,960

1,990

Dec.

42.33

34.12

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.

13

13

Sobeys Inc. (Empire Co. Ltd.) 

1,927

1,920

May 

18.94

17.84

Meijer

Grand Rapids Mich.

Mass merchant

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

14

8

Target Corp. 

1,834

1,802

Jan.

32.69*

30.58*

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.

15

17

Aldi Inc. (USA)

1,695

1,602

Dec.

16.8

14.31

Aldi

Batavia Ill.

Limited-assortment discounter

Jason Hart / CEO

16

38

Save-A-Lot (Onex Corp.)

1,344

1,363

Feb.

4.47

0.32

Save-A-Lot

St. Louis

Discounter

Kenneth McGrath / CEO

17

7

Publix Super Markets Inc.

1,164

1,136

Dec.

34.34

34

Publix Super Markets

Lakeland Fla.

Traditional supermarket

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

18

24

Metro Inc.

853

850

Sept.

10.04

9.74

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.

19

26

Southeastern Grocers LLC

705

750

Dec.

9.9

10.5

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 Mas; and growth within the Harveys chain.

20

3

Costco Wholesale Corp. 

611

592

Aug.

66.10*

62.80*

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.

21

22

Trader Joe's Co.

480

466

June

13.56

13.15

Trader Joe's

Monrovia Calif.

Limited-assortment discounter

Dan Bane / chairman and CEO

22

20

Amazon.com

466

0

Dec.

14.00*

6.20*

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.

23

30

Giant Eagle 

412

412

June

8.90 c

8.90 c

Giant Eagle (+Express); Market District (+Express); GetGo

Pittsburgh

Traditional supermarket; convenience stores

Laura Shapira Karet / president and CEO

23

46

Houchens Industries

412

405

Sept.

3.12

3.12

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

25

58

99 Cents Only Stores LLC

388

390

Jan.

1.77*

1.62*

99 Cents Only

Commerce Calif.

Dollar chain

Geoffrey J. Covert / president and CEO

26

11

H-E-B

336

329

Oct.

23.12

21.62

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.

27

37

Smart & Final Stores Inc.

323

305

Dec.

4.58

4.34

Smart & Final; Smart & Final Extra!; Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice

Commerce Calif.

Grocery warehouse format

David. G. Hirz / president and CEO

28

55

Grocery Outlet Inc. (Hellman & Friedman LLC)

293

266

Dec.

2.00

1.90

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market

Emeryville Calif.

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market

Eric Lindberg and MacGregor Read / co-CEOs

29

36

Sprouts Farmers Market Inc.

285

253

Dec.

4.67

4.05

Sprouts Farmers Market

Phoenix

Natural foods retailer

Amin N. Maredia / CEO

30

47

Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc.

262

238

April

2.81

2.65

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.

31

71

Brookshire Brothers

251

252

April

1.13

1.11

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

32

24

Hy-Vee Inc.

245

242

Sept.

10.00

9.80

Hy-Vee; Hy-Vee Drugstore

West Des Moines Iowa

Traditional supermarket; drugstore; convenience store

Randy Edeker / chairman CEO and president

33

13

Meijer Inc.

237

230

Jan.

18.92

18.6

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%.

34

19

Supervalu Inc.

217

217

Feb.

15.94

16.01

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.

35

27

BJ's Wholesale Club

215

214

Jan.

9.78*

9.62*

BJ's Wholesale Club

Westborough Mass.

Club format

Christopher J. Baldwin / president and CEO

36

40

The Save Mart Cos.

207

207

Dec.

4.10

4.20

Save Mart; Lucky; Lucky California; FoodMaxx; S-Mart; MaxxValue

Modesto Calif.

Discount chain

Nicole Pesco / CEO

37

44

Weis Markets Inc.

205

204

Dec.

3.48

3.14

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.

38

41

Ingles Markets Inc.

199

201

Sept.

4

3.8

Ingles; Sav-Mor

Asheville N.C.

Traditional supermarket

James Lanning /president and CEO

39

50

Brookshire Grocery Co.

176

177

Sept.

2.45

2.41

Food City; Super Dollar Discount Foods

Abingdon Va.

Traditional supermarket

Steven C. Smith / president and CEO

39

60

The Fresh Market Inc. (Apollo Global Management LLC)

176

176

Jan.

1.75

1.81

The Fresh Market

Greensboro N.C. 

Traditional supermarket

Larry Appel / president and CEO

41

48

Tops Markets LLC (Tops Holding II Corp. )

174

177

Dec.

2.70

2.60

Tops Friendly Markets; Orchard Fresh

Williamsville N.Y.

Traditional supermarket

Frank Curci / chairman and CEO

42

39

Stater Bros. Markets

170

169

Sept.

4.34

4.27

Stater Bros. Markets

San Bernardino Calif.

Traditional supermarket; warehouse grocery concept

Pete Van Helden / president and CEO

43

41

Overwaitea Food Group

163

156

Dec.

4.04

3.82

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.

44

73

Lowe's Market (Pay and Save Inc.) 

151

151

Aug.

1.00

1.00

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

45

32

SpartanNash Co. 

144

157

Dec.

7.99

7.73

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.

46

43

Price Chopper/Market 32 (The Golub Corp.)

134

136

April

3.84

3.79

Price Chopper; Market 32; Market Bistro

Schenectady N.Y.

Traditional supermarket

Scott Grimmett / president and CEO

47

50

K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.

133

135

Dec.

2.37

2.1

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.

48

45

Raley's

125

122

June

3.24

3.16

Raley's; Bel Air Markets; Nob Hill Foods; Food Source 

West Sacramento Calif.

Traditional supermarket

Michael Teel / CEO; Keith Knopf / president

49

34

WinCo Foods LLC

119

114

April 

7.02

6.5

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.

50

68

Fareway Stores Inc.

118

115

Oct.

1.32

1.31

ShopRite; Price Rite; Price Rite Marketplace

Mahwah N.J.

Traditional supermarket

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

51

64

Bashas' Inc.

115

116

Dec.

1.44

1.46

Bashas'; Eddie's Country Store; AJ's Fine Foods; Food City; Bashas' Din_

Chandler Ariz.

Traditional supermarket

Edward "Trey" Bahsa III / chairman president and CEO 

52

64

Piggly Wiggly Midwest

113

115

Dec.

1.4

1.4

Piggly Wiggly; Butera Market

Sheboygan Wis. 

Traditional supermarket; company-owned and franchised stores

Paul Butera / chairman and CEO

53

64

Coborn's Inc.

105

106

Dec.

1.4

1.4

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

54

48

Schnuck Markets Inc.

100

100

Sept.

2.70

2.70

Schnucks

St. Louis

Traditional supermarket

Todd R. Schnuck / chairman and CEO

55

18

Wakefern Food Corp. 

96

93

Sept.

16.30

16.00

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.

56

31

Wegmans Food Markets Inc.

95

92

Dec.

8.50

8.30

Wegmans

Rochester N.Y.

Traditional supermarket

Danny Wegman / chairman; Colleen Wegman / president and CEO

57

52

Alex Lee Inc.

84

94

Sept.

2.20

2.10

Lowes Foods; Just$ave; Merchant Distributors Inc.

Hickory N.C.

Wholesale distributor; traditional supermarkets

Boyd George / chairman; Brian George / president and CEO

58

35

Demoulas Super Markets Inc.

79

77

Dec.

5.00

4.80

Market Basket

Tewksbury Mass.

Traditional supermarket

Arthur T. Demoulas / president and CEO

59

55

Big Y Foods Inc.

78

77

Dec.

1.96

1.74

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

60

64

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

58

58

Dec.

1.40

1.36

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.

61

70

Rouses Enterprises LLC

55

54

Dec.

1.24

1.02

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.

62

71

Vallarta Supermarkets Inc. 

50

49

Dec.

1.06

1.03

Vallarta Supermarkets

Sylmar Calif.

Hispanic format

Enrique Gonzalez Jr. / president and CEO

63

58

Superior Grocers

45

45

Dec.

1.75

1.73

Superior Grocers

Santa Fe Springs Calif.

Traditional supermarket

Mimi Song / president and CEO

64

54

Associated Food Stores

43

43

Dec.

2.11

2.07

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

65

73

Northgate Gonzalez Markets LLC

40

41

Dec.

1.03

1.02

Northgate Gonzalez Market

Anaheim Calif.

Hispanic format

Miguel Gonzalez Reynoso and Oscar Gonzalez Reynoso / co-presidents

66

57

Saker ShopRites Inc.

31

30

Oct.

1.86

1.82

ShopRite; Dearborn Market & Garden Center

Freehold N.J.

Traditional supermarket

Richard Saker/ president CEO and chairman

67

62

Village Super Market Inc.

29

29

July

1.6

1.63

ShopRite

Springfield N.J.

Traditional supermarket

James Sumas / chairman and CEO

68

73

Festival Foods (Skogen's Foodliner Inc.)

28

25

Oct.

1

0.91

Festival Foods; Lakeside Foods

Onalaska Wis.

Traditional supermarket

Mark Skogen / president and CEO

69

68

Inserra Supermarkets Inc.

24

23

Dec.

1.30

1.30

Fareway; Omaha Meat Market

Boone Iowa

Traditional supermarket

Reynolds W. Cramer / CEO

70

60

Woodman's Food Market Inc.

16

16

Sept.

1.70

1.70

Woodman's Markets

Janesville Wis.

Traditional supermarket

Phil Woodman / chairman; Clint Woodman / president

71

29

United Natural Foods Inc.

12

13

July

9.27

8.47

Earth Origins

Providence R.I.

Natural/organic wholesale distributor

Steven L. Spinner / president CEO and chairman

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.

72

52

Bozzuto's Inc.

9

9

Sept.

2.20

2.20

Bozzuto's

Cheshire Conn.

Wholesale distributor

Michael A. Bozzuto / chairman president and CEO

73

28

Associated Wholesale Grocers

6

6

Dec.

9.7

9.18

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.

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