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...
Amazon.com began as a bookstore, and becomes a store for almost all products. Its website still offers millions of books, as well as other media, home furnishings, clothing, pet supplies, office products, health and beauty, jewelry, consumer...
Kroger is the world's largest traditional grocer, despite Wal-Mart overtaking the chain as the world's largest seller of groceries years ago. It operates more than 2,755 supermarkets in 35 states under variety of local banners; 2,270 locations...
Cheap-but-chic Target is the US's #2 discount chain (behind Wal-Mart). The fashion-forward discounter operates 1,800-plus Target stores across the US, as well as an online business at Target.com. It sells a broad range of household goods, food...
Wake up and smell the coffee -- Starbucks is everywhere. The world's #1 specialty coffee retailer, Starbucks has some 32,660 coffee shops. The shops offer coffee drinks and food items, as well as roasted beans, coffee accessories, and teas....
Lowe's Companies has built a strong business out of lumber, cement, power tools, and other merchandise. The company is the nation's #3 home improvement chain (after True Value) with about 1,730 stores mostly US-based locations. Its stores offer...
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...
The TJX Companies operates about 4,500 stores worldwide under half a dozen retail brand names, including the two largest off-price clothing retailers in the US: T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, which operate more than 2,400 stores nationwide. T.J. Maxx...
Operating more than 780 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 99 million cardholders in some 45 US...
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