Best Retail Companies

Amazon.com began as Earth's biggest bookstore, but has become Earth's biggest everything store. Its website still offers millions of books, as well as other media, home furnishings, clothing, pet supplies, office products, and hundreds of other...

Walmart is an unstoppable retail force that has yet to meet any immovable object. It is the world's #1 retailer, as well as the world's largest company by revenue and largest employer with 2.2 million associates. Walmart sells groceries and...

Operating more than 760 membership warehouse stores, Costco is the nation's largest wholesale club operator (ahead of Wal-Mart's SAM'S CLUB). Primarily under the Costco Wholesale banner, it serves nearly 95 million cardholders in some 45 US...

When it was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, The Home Depot began changing consumers’ perspectives about how they could care for and improve their homes. The Company created the “do-it-yourself” concept, spawning an entire...

CVS Health is at the forefront of a changing health care landscape, with a suite of capabilities and the expertise needed to drive innovations that will help shape the future of health. The company operates approximately 9,600 retail pharmacies...

Walgreen Co. is one of the biggest drugstore chains in the US, operating some 9,600 mostly freestanding Walgreens stores in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Prescription drugs account for about 70%...

Lowe's Companies has built a strong business out of lumber, cement, power tools, and other merchandise. The company is the nation's #2 home improvement chain (after The Home Depot) with some 2,000 mostly US-based locations. Its stores offer some...

Wake up and smell the coffee -- Starbucks is everywhere. The world's #1 specialty coffee retailer, Starbucks has more than 29,300 coffee shops in 80 countries. The shops offer coffee drinks and food items, as well as roasted beans, coffee...

Best Buy is one of the largest consumer electronics outlets in the US and beyond. The multinational retailer sells both products and services through roughly 1,700 retail, mobile stand-alone, and smaller express stores under the Best Buy, Best...