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Turf War Aces and duffers alike face challenges, leverage opportunities to boost their positions on the cutthroat course.

By Meg Major, Jim Dudlicek, Bridget Coldschmidt, Randy Hof bauer and Katie Martin

"The road to success is always under construction. — Arnold Palmer

he quote above as true in golf as it is in As is PCs custom every year, we've ranked the business, and certainly grocery retailing is industry's top 50 retailers, based on the total sales no exception. Increasingly with each pass• generated in their most recent fiscal years. ing year, operators are forced to Breaking down the key players, our editorial team decided review, refine and, in many cases, reinvent the a golf theme would be appropriate to frame its analysis. To way they operate. Smart retailers keep one eye that end, we've pursued a course as follows: keenly fixed on the next drive and the other over their shoulder, trained on their On the Leaderboard: leaders, its domi• competition. nant players, maintaining a firm grasp on their And competition is leadership positions in the industry. everywhere these days — next door, across Adjusting Their Swing: These retailers are taking the street, online, steps to refine their games to better serve their pulling up in a deliv• customers and improve their competitive edge. ery van or maybe even dropped from above In the Hunt: These retailers are actively working to boost by a drone. their position in the marketplace, through mergers and To be sure, acquisitions, by expanding into new territories, or by is the wild card in this launching new initiatives to demonstrate their relevance high-stakes match. The amid their competitive field. etailer is delving deeper into grocery, including the In the Rough: These retailers are historically strong fresh side, and even experi• companies, but are struggling to maintain their posi• menting with brick- and-mor- tions as they weather current market conditions. tar locations where customers can both pick up online orders and shop On Par: These are the stalwarts, retailers that are for live product, and pay electronically maintaining their positions by satisfying their core without checkstands. Amazon has been shoppers and staying the course. named as a potential buyer of Whole Market by some, B.J.'s Wholesale Club by others. So with that — fore!

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2017 2016 Fiscal Year-end No. of Employees (Total or Rank Rank Company Sales (000) Top Banners Full-time Equivalents) Website

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.* $307.833,000 4,221 WalmartSupercenter 1,284,668 FTE wwwwalmart.com ' BentanvMle, Ark. Neighborhood Market The Co. 8115,337,0 0 0 2,796 Kroger 237,873 FTE www.thekrogerco.com

2 Cincinnati Hams Teeter [ 3 AB Acquisition LLC $60.493.940 2,337 Safeway 276,000 TOTAL www..com Boise, Albertsons www.safeway.com

5/7 Delhaize $42.946.000 1,990 220,000 TOTAL www.aholddelhaize.com

4 Quincy, Mass./Salisbury, N.C. Stop & Shop Hannaford

S 4 Super Markets, Inc. $33,999,921 1,145 Publix 191,000 TOTAL www.publix.com Lakeland, Fla. Publix Sabor Publix GreenWise

6 H-E-B Grocery Co. $23.000,000 320 H-E-B 80,000 TOTAL wwwheb.com San Antonio H-E-B Plus H-E-B 7 8 Meijerlnc. $16.500,000 230 70,000 TOTAL www.meijei.com Grand Rapids, Mich. Wakefern Food Corp. $16.000,000 198 ShopRite 16,830 FTE www.wakefern..com Keasbey, N J. ; Inc. $15,724,000 436 Whole Foods Market 87,0 00 TOTAL wwwwholefoodsmaiket.com « Austin, 365 By Whole Foods Market io 13 AldiUSInc. $13,008,580 1,600 Food Store 25,000 TOTAL www.aldi.us Batavia, III. 11 12 LLC $11,820.900 738 Winn-Dixie 60,000 TOTAL www.segrocers.com Jacksonville, Fla. Bi-Lo www.bi-lo.com Harveys www.winndixie.com 11 Trader Joe's Co. $10,290,540 460 Trader Joe's 9.453 FTE www.traderjoes.com n Monrovia, Calif. 15 HyVeelnc. $9.800.000 244 Hy-Vee 84,000 TOTAL www.hy-vee.com H West Des Moines, Iowa 16 Inc. $9,500.000 223 Giant Eagle 34,000 TOTAL www.gianteagle.com B Pittsburgh Giant Eagle Market District 17 WegmansFood Markets Inc. $8,300,000 92 47,000 TOTAL www wegmans com Rochester, N.Y. 14 Target Corp. $7.252,700 247 SuperTarget 65,515 FTE wwwtarget.com « Minneapolis 17 19 WinCo Foods Inc. $6,500.000 114 WinCo 17,000 TOTAL www.wincofoods.com Boise, Idaho

18 20 Defense Commissary $5.560,000 169 DeCA Commissary 15,000 TOTAL www commissaries.com Arlington, Va.

' Ï8 Supervalu Inc. $4.596.000 217 Shop :N Save 29,000T0TAL www.supervalu.com Eden Prairie, Minn. Shoppers Food Warehouse

Smarts Final Inc. $4,341.795 305 Smart & Final Extra 11,949 TOTAL wwwsmartandfinal.com Los Angeles Smart & Final Cash & Carry

:21 22 Stater Bros. Markets $4,300,000 169 Stater Bros 18,000 TOTAL www.staterbros com San Bernardino, Calif.

22 21 The Save Mart Cos. $4,200.000 207 Save Mail 15,500 TOTAL www.savemart.com Modesto, Calif. Lucky Food Maxx

23 26 $4,046,385 253 Sprouts Faimers Market 24,000 TOTAL www.sprouts.com Phoenix 25 Price Chopper/ $3.858.400 136 Price Chopper 11,898 FTE www.pncechoppei com • The Golub Corp. Market Bistro by Price Chopper Schenectady, N.Y. Market 32

25 24 Markets Inc. $3794,977 201 Ingles 26,500 TOTAL www.mgles-markets.com Asheville.N.C. Sav-Mor * Sales figure represents total U.S. annual sales; retailer doesn't break out sales by format. Source: Nielsen TDLinx, March 2017; Progressive Grocer Market Research, 2017

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2017 2016 Fiscal Year-end No.of Employees (Total or Rank Rank Company Sales (000) Supermarkets Top Banners Full-time Equivalents) Website

26 27 Demoulas Strperrnarkets Inc./ $3.203,200 77 Market Basket 8.068 FTE www mydemoulas.net Market Basket Tewksbury, Mass.

27 28 Raleys Supermarkets Inc. $3.200.000 121 Raleys 12,000 TOTAL www.raleys.com West Sacramento, Calif. Bel An Market Nob Hill

28 29 , Inc. $3,136,720 204 Weis 23,000 TOTAL www weismarkets.com Sunbury, Pa. 29 n/a Save-A-Lot $2,715,076 433 Save-A-Lot 10.474 FTE www.save-a-lot.com Earth City, Mo. 30 32 Stores $2,700.000 240 Key Food 4,325 FTE www.keyfood.com Co-operative Inc. Food Universe Staten Island, N.Y. Key Food Marketplace

31 31 Schnuck Markets Inc. $2,700,000 100 14,000 TOTAL www.schnuckscom St. Louis Culmaria

32 30 Tops Markets Inc. $2,456.767 177 14,800 TOTAL www topsmarkets.com Williamsville, N.Y. 33 33 Brookshire Grocery Co. $2.339,480 177 Brookshire 8,025 FTE www.brookshires.com Tyler, Texas Superl Spring Market 34 35 K-VA-TFood Stores Inc. $2,046.460 133 Food City 7,002 FTE www.foodcity.com Abingdon, Va. Super Dollar

35 34 SpartanNashCo. $2.029.045 157 14,700 TOTAL www..com Grand Rapids, Mich. • &W Fresh Markets Sun Mart Foods

36 36 Inc. $1,964,924 389 Save-A-Lot 8,913 FTE www.houchensindustries.com Bowling Green, Ky. IGA Food Giant

37 40 BigY Foods Inc. $1,900,000 71 BigY 11,000 TOTAL www.bigy.com Springfield. Mass.

38 37 Inc. $1,700,000 175 The Fresh Market 10,000 TOTAL wwwthefreshmarket.com Greensboro, N.C.

39 39 Bashas' Inc. $1,654,380 116 Bashas' 5,313 FTE www.bashas.com Chandler. Ariz. Food City AJ's Fine Foods 40 44 Village Super Market Inc. $1,634,904 29 ShopRite 6,544 TOTAL www.villagesupermarkets.com Springfield. NJ. 41 38 Inc. $1,540,136 270 Grocery Outlet 7.230 FTE wwwgroceryoutlet.com Emeryville, Calif. 42 41 Supermarkets Inc. $1,466,400 29 ShopRite 3,905 FTE wwwshoprite.com Freehold, N.J. 43 42 Inc. $1,354,600 23 ShopRite 3,068 FTE www.shopnte.com Mahwah, NJ. 44 45 Inc. $1,289.860 70 Fiesta Mart 5,385 FTE wwwfiestamart.com 45 43 Woodman's Food Markets Inc. $1,288,300 16 Woodman's Food Market 2,755 FTE www.woodmans-food.com Janesville, Wis. 46 n/a Bodega Latina $1,188,200 58 El Super 3,494 FTE www.elsupermarkets.com Paramount, Calif.

47 17 Lowe's Pay-N-Save $1,112488 146 Lowe's 3,714 FTE www lowesmarket.com Food Stores Inc. Food King LiLtlefield, Texas Lowe s Big 8 48 46 Central Grocers Inc. $1.079,000 37 Strack&VanTil 3,249 ETE www.central-grocers.com Jolietlll. Ultra Warehouse Foods 49 50 Alex Lee Inc. $1,041,300 93 Lowes Food Stores 9,000 TOTAL wwwlowesfoods.com Hickory, N.C. JustSave 50 49 Marc Glassman Inc. $1.021,800 58 Marc's 5,727 FTE www.marcs com * Sales figure represents total U.S. annual sales; retailer doesn't break out sales by retail format. Source: Nielsen TDLinx, March 2017; Progressive Grocer Market Research, 2017

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merchandise. Not included are soft goods; clothing; general The Super 50 Methodology merchandise such as hardware, appliances, computers and Information for Progressive Grocer's annual Super 50 is auto service; and other items not common to supermarkets. compiled from direct guidance from retailers and/or data Sales estimates from Nielsen TDLinx are presented in terms sourced from public records, including 10K, annual reports of all-commodity volume (ACV), which is defined as an annual• and corporate websites. For privately held companies, re• ized range of the estimated retail sales volume of all items sold sults are based on information from Nielsen TDLinx, which at a retail site that pass through the retailer's cash registers. collects and maintains store information across all channels Nielsen TDLinx's ACV is an estimate based on best available selling consumer packaged goods. data — a directional measure to be used as an indica• The four categories within the Super 50 tor of store and account size, not an actual retail report include annual sales from the most 4 sales report. All data are collected by Nielsen TDLinx recently concluded fiscal year, store count, from a wide range of independent sources, and then top banners and employee counts, either enhanced with computer modeling. Information total or full-time equivalents. Full-time equivalent shown is from the March 2017 database. employees are the sum of regular workers, plus Take a deeper dive into PG's Super 50 with the Mar• one-half the number of part-time employees. keting Guidebook Advantage, which is updated daily Nielsen TDLinx uses Food Marketing Institute's defini• and provides a versatile online database with in-depth tion of a supermarket: a with a minimum of company profiles, market share analytics and contact $2 million in annual sales; its data omit sales from con• information. Retailers included in the Marketing venience, drug and other retail channels that may be Guidebook Advantage include the nation's top 100 part of total revenue for some companies. Wholesale food retailers, as well as more than 2,000 other retail membership clubs such as Sam's Club, and BJ's chains and distributors. For more information, visit Wholesale Club are also not included. Supercenters www.RetailBuyers.net, call 813-713-4301 or contact are included, but only for their grocery-equivalent [email protected].