This ranking depicts the world's leading food retailers in 2014 and 2019, based on sales. Walmart was the leading global grocery retailer in 2014 and 2019 with sales amounting to about * and * billion U.S. dollars in each year. Walmart is an American multinational retail chain.
The global food retailing market
The global food and grocery retail market is segmented into unpackaged food, drinks, and household products. These products are distributed through grocery stores, convenience stores, club retailers, discount stores, and several others. Food and grocery retailing is one of the world’s oldest and largest industries. In 2017, most of the 15 biggest fast-moving consumer goods retailers in the world were food and grocery retailers, including Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, and Aldi. Online grocery shopping has become fairly popular, allowing for retailers to increase sales and creating the growth of online-based competitors such as Amazon. The online grocery market share in the United States was projected to reach ** percent by 2020.
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