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Biggest Retailers by Retail Sales Quiz

How well do you know the biggest retailers by retail sales? Floored turns the ranking into a building: floor 1 is the top of the list. We name a floor, you guess what's on it, and the lift rides to whatever you picked so you know to go higher or lower.

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You get a few guesses per floor. Land it on your first guess for 10 points; a near miss still scores. After the retailers round, four more lists keep the ride going.

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  1. Walmart $648.1B
    With about 2.1 million workers, it is the largest private employer in the world.
  2. Amazon $251.9B
    It bought the Whole Foods Market supermarket chain for $13.7 billion in 2017.
  3. Costco $242.3B
    Its hot dog and soda combo has cost $1.50 since 1985.
  4. Lidl $177.0B
    Its owner, Schwarz Group, also runs Kaufland hypermarkets and is based in Neckarsulm, Germany.
  5. Home Depot $152.7B
    Its first two stores opened near Atlanta in 1979, in spaces leased from J.C. Penney.
  6. Kroger $148.9B
    Bernard Kroger opened his first store in Cincinnati in 1883, investing his life savings of $372.
  7. Aldi $123.6B
    The name is short for Albrecht Diskont, after founding brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht.
  8. JD.com $122.9B
    Founded in 1998 as Jingdong, it was named after Liu Qiangdong and his then-girlfriend Gong Xiaojing.
  9. Walgreens $121.2B
    In 1922 Walgreens employee Ivar Coulson added ice cream to malted milk, creating the malted milkshake.
  10. CVS $116.8B
    Its receipts can be up to 5 feet long, which has made them an internet meme.
  11. Target $105.8B
    Its mascot, Bullseye, is a white bull terrier.
  12. Ahold Delhaize $97.8B
    Its Dutch chain Albert Heijn began in 1887 when Albert Heijn took over his father's shop in Oostzaan.
  13. Carrefour $90.8B
    Carrefour means crossroads in French; its first shop, in 1960, was near a crossroads in Annecy.
  14. Lowe's $86.4B
    It began in 1921 as a hardware store in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
  15. Tesco $85.2B
    The name joins TES, from tea supplier T.E. Stockwell, with CO from founder Jack Cohen's surname.
  16. Albertsons $79.2B
    It bought Safeway in 2015; a planned merger with Kroger collapsed in 2024 after judges blocked it.
  17. Edeka $75.9B
    It is made up of co-operatives of independent supermarket owners and was founded in Leipzig in 1907.
  18. LVMH $73.3B
    Formed in 1987 by merging Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessy, it also owns Sephora and Tiffany & Co.
  19. 7-Eleven $72.8B
    It took the name 7-Eleven in 1946 to advertise its then-long opening hours, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
  20. Rewe $68.6B
    The Cologne-based co-operative of independent retailers also owns the Penny discount chain.
  21. Leclerc $63.2B
    Edouard Leclerc opened his first store in Landerneau, Brittany, in 1949.
  22. Aeon $58.7B
    It traces its origins to Okadaya, a business founded in 1758, and was formerly called Jusco.
  23. Publix $57.1B
    It is owned by its workers and the Jenkins family, and its deli sandwiches are nicknamed Pub subs.
  24. TJ Maxx $54.2B
    In the UK and Europe it trades as TK Maxx to avoid confusion with the British chain TJ Hughes.
  25. Loblaw $44.0B
    Its No Name store brand, launched in 1978, comes in plain black and yellow packaging.
  26. H-E-B $43.6B
    Florence Butt opened it in 1905 as a grocery on the ground floor of her family home in Kerrville, Texas.
  27. Best Buy $43.5B
    It opened in 1966 as a store called Sound of Music and was renamed Best Buy in 1983.
  28. Intermarché $43.4B
    Owned by the French group Les Mousquetaires, it began in 1969 and took the Intermarche name in 1973.
  29. IKEA $43.0B
    The name joins Ingvar Kamprad's initials with Elmtaryd, his family's farm, and his hometown, Agunnaryd.
  30. Woolworths $42.0B
    The Australian chain borrowed the name of the American Woolworth stores but was never related to them.
  31. Sainsbury's $40.6B
    John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury opened the first shop on Drury Lane, London, in 1869.
  32. Zara $38.9B
    It was first called Zorba, after the 1964 film, until the founders found a bar with that name nearby.
  33. Dollar General $38.7B
    It began in 1939 as J.L. Turner and Son in Scottsville, Kentucky; the first Dollar General opened in 1955.

Source: Deloitte: Global Powers of Retailing 2025 · as of FY2023

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