America's Top Supermarket Chains 2008 Rank/Retailer/2008 Sales in Billions ______
2008 2007 2008 Sales % change from Rank Rank Retailer in Billions FY2007 1 1 The Kroger Co.A $77.0 +8.2 2 2 Safeway Inc. 44.8 +4.3 3 3 Supervalu 33.7 +20.4 4 4 Publix Super Markets 24.1 +3.9 5 5 Ahold USAB 21.8 +4.3 6 6 Delhaize AmericaC 19.2 +5.5 7 8 H.E. Butt Grocery Co. 15.0 +11.1 8 7 Meijer 13.7 +0.7 9 9 Great A&P Tea Co.D 9.5 +48.7 10 12 Whole Foods Market 8.0 +20.7 11 11 Giant Eagle 8.0 +12.7 12 10 Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. 7.3 +0.8 13 13 Trader Joe's 7.2 +10.8 14 15 Aldi Supermarkets 6.2 +6.9 15 16 Hy-Vee Food Stores 6.2 +10.7 16 17 Defense Commissary Agency* 5.8 +5.0 17 18 Save Mart Supermarkets 5.1 +10.9 18 19 Wegman’s Food Markets 4.8 +6.7 19 14 Albertsons LLC 4.5 -25.0 20 — WinCo Foods 4.0 —
* DeCA sales reflect the commissary pricing policy of cost plus 5 percent (the 5 percent surcharge is not included in the sales figure shown above). When reviewing this comparison, it should be noted that civilian supermarket sales reflect a much higher markup. Notes: A This list includes only chains primarily devoted to food and grocery retailing. It does not include discount store chains such as Wal-Mart (which generated 2008 revenues of roughly $125 billion from its food and consumables departments, in addition to another $31 billion in food and consumables sales in its Sam’s Clubs division, making it the leading food and consumables retailer in the country) or Costco (with about $38.3 billion in food and consumables sales); convenience store chains (7-Eleven rang up more than $9.2 billion for merchandise during the year); dollar stores (Dollar General reportedly generated food and consumables sales of about $7.2 billion) or food distributors such as Nash Finch (with retail sales of more than half a billion dollars), which operate significant retail supermarket and grocery store chains as well. B Includes Giant Food and Stop & Shop chains. C Includes Food Lion, Hannaford Bros., Sweetbay, Harvey's, Bloom and Bottom Dollar stores. D Includes A&P, Waldbaum's, SuperFresh, Pathmark and Food Emporium stores. Percentage increase reflects acquisition of Pathmark Stores. Source: Exchange & Commissary News; Some sales figures shown here are estimates. 101509