The largest supermarket in the world is Walmart.
This is information about the world's top ten supermarkets: for reference only: 1. Wal-Mart Stores in the United States, ranked first among the top 500, with an annual turnover of US$246.525 billion and 1.244 million employees; Wal-Mart is a company in the US retail industry
Founded in Arkansas in 1962 by the legendary Mr. Sam Walton.
After more than 40 years of development, Wal-Mart has become the largest private employer in the United States and the largest retail chain enterprise in the world.
As of March 2008, Wal-Mart had opened 7,266 stores in 14 countries around the world, with a total of more than 1.9 million employees [1] and 175 million customers visiting Wal-Mart every week.
Wal-Mart (WAL-MART) is the first company in the world's top 500 companies.
In 1991, Wal-Mart's annual sales exceeded US$40 billion, becoming one of the world's largest retail companies.
According to the U.S. Service Industry Classification Rankings published by Fortune magazine in May 1994, Wal-Mart's sales in 1993 reached US$67.34 billion, an increase of more than 11.8 billion from the previous year, surpassing the West Coast, which ranked first in 1992.
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In 1995, Wal-Mart's sales continued to grow and set a world record in the retail industry, achieving annual sales of US$93.6 billion, and ranking fourth on the Fortune Magazine's list of the largest American companies in the United States.
In fact, Wal-Mart's annual sales are equivalent to the sum of all department stores in the United States, and it still maintains a strong momentum of development.
So far, Wal-Mart has 2,133 Wal-Mart stores, 469 Sam's Club stores and 248 Wal-Mart shopping plazas across the United States, Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, China, Indonesia and other places.
Its rapid development in just a few decades has to be said to be a miracle in the retail industry.
2. French Carrefour, ranked 29th, with a turnover of US$64.978 billion and 430,000 people; Carrefour Group, founded in 1959, is the pioneer of the hypermarket format, the largest retailer in Europe and the second largest international brand in the world.
Retail chain group.
It now has more than 11,000 operating retail units, and its business scope covers 30 countries and regions around the world.
The first Carrefour store opened in France in 1963. Carrefour Group was also the pioneer of the hypermarket format. After merging with Promodes in 1999, it became the largest retailer in Europe and the second largest in the world.
Currently, it has more than 11,000 operating retail stores in 29 countries and regions around the world. It is currently mainly presented in three business types, namely: large-scale mass merchandisers, mass merchandisers and discount stores.
In addition, Carrefour has also developed convenience stores and membership-based mass merchandisers in some countries and regions.
Taking 2004 as an example, the entire group's after-tax sales were 72.668 billion euros and the total number of employees exceeded 430,000, ranking second only to Wal-Mart and ranking second among the world's mass merchandisers.
3. American Home Depot, ranked 37th, with a turnover of US$58.247 billion and 230,000 people; The Home Depot was founded in 1978 and is the world's largest furniture and building materials retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States, 2005
Annual fiscal year sales reached US$81.5 billion.
The Home Depot sells a variety of building materials, home furnishings, lawn and garden products, and provides a variety of related services.
The average indoor area of ??a standard The Home Depot store is close to 9,758 square meters, and there is an additional 2,138 square meters of outdoor garden product area.
In addition to The Home Depot standard stores, we have EXPO Design Center, which provides products and services primarily for home improvement and remodeling projects, Home Depot Supply, which provides professional customer service, and The Home Depot Landscape Supply. As of fiscal year 2005
At the end of the year, The Home Depot had 1,984 standard stores throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, 34 EXPO Design Centers, 3 Home Depot Supply stores and 11 The Home Depot Landscape Supply stores.
There are also two flooring specialty stores in Texas and Florida that mainly deal in flooring products.
The Home Depot has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1981 under the symbol HD and is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500.
4. Kroger in the United States, ranked 51st, with a turnover of US$51.759 billion and 312,000 employees; the history of Kroger can be traced back to 1883, when Bernard Kroger opened the first store in the United States.
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