Can you name the biggest U.S. based retailers in 2008?

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Biggest U.S. Retailers (2008) Quiz

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Created by: PhilSandifer -
Published: December 5th, 2008
Category: Miscellaneous
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Tags: Company Quizzes, retailer, based, retail, sale, mil, biggest

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	Brian:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 14:26 GMT	12 points
	Kohls should work for Kohl's.

	chodanutz:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:27 GMT	6 points
	#3 totally crossed my mind, but i didnt enter it because i didnt think it was that big. I've only really seen those stores in small towns, so i didnt think they would even compete with stores like #1 aka the devil of retail

	radiosilence:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:40 GMT	3 points
	It's been a long time since the days of Gibson's, Woolworth's Five and Dime, and TG&Y. Wal-Mart drove them all out of my hometown.

	Gordo:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:43 GMT	5 points
	chodanutz, Kroger owns about twenty different grocery brands across the country. Ralphs and Food 4 Less in California, Fred Meyer and QFC in Oregon and Washington, Smiths in Utah and Nevada, Fry's in Arizona, etc, etc. Kroger exists in 18 of the 20 largest markets in the US

	chillicothe20:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 16:42 GMT	6 points
	"jc penney" should work without the dots.

	Chris968:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:00 GMT	5 points
	I was surprised to see Supervalu on here. I only guessed it because I work for them. I guess since they own Acme and Superfresh it adds u?

	RandallPinkston:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:05 GMT	4 points
	This is a great puzzle. I love ones like this that ask your brain to work in a broad way.

	cassykins:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:33 GMT	5 points
	This was interesting. There are actually a few of these places that I haven't even heard of!

	Gordo:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:51 GMT	2 points
	Chris968, Supervalu became huge when they bought more than 2000 Albertsons stores (including the Acme stores that you mention). Albertsons alone was in the top 20, though Supervalu did not buy all of their stores, only about 2000 - the other 500 or so were sold to various other countries.

	Gordo:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:52 GMT	2 points
	Oops, meant companies, not countries.

	Lindsay:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 18:09 GMT	1 point
	Never heard of Kroger - guess I'm in one of those two top-20 markets without one. Also not familiar with Safeway or Publix. Hadn't heard of Supervalu either, although apparently Shaw's (which we have here) is part of it. I guess my neck of the woods just has a lot more smaller/independent grocery stores than most...

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 18:53 GMT	-4 points
	Is that 344,992 million or 344.992 million?

	ske_kc:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 19:30 GMT	2 points
	@Vernon: It's gotta be 344,992 million as it says (i.e. 344.992 billion).

	CarpeDiem:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 20:28 GMT	2 points
	This one was really fun!! Entering Albertsons brought up SuperValu, so entering Ralphs should bring up Krogers. I think Pennys should work for J.C. Pennys.

	nyooman:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 20:29 GMT	3 points
	man, wal-mart raked in more than the next top 4 combined... scary...

	prototypetolyfe:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 20:41 GMT	1 point
	costco isn't a retailer, it's a wholesaler like sam's club

	chantastic:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 22:05 GMT	3 points
	Walmart raked in more than the next top 5 combined.

	Statto2:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 23:16 GMT	3 points
	@Alex - wikipedia describes Costco as a "Warehouse Club". Non-traders can be members. In fact, one of my work colleagues is a member here in the UK.

	SillyStokey92:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 23:29 GMT	6 points
	I've never heard of a couple of these places.

	Antithesys:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 23:36 GMT	4 points
	I was surprised amazon wasn't on the list. I thought the source might have just qualified the data somehow, but I looked it up and amazon is only #70 worldwide. Wow.

	Annie:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 00:08 GMT	3 points
	Genaurdi's didn't work for safeway. Maybe I spelled it wrong

	lazeeeyes:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 06:42 GMT	4 points
	Jeez, I was figuring out what happened to Kmart since it is not on the list, knowing they were struggling. Then I remembered they merged with Sears. Times can change.

	PhilSandifer:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 17:26 GMT	1 point
	For the most part, I only included alternate brands owned by a retailer when the retailer does not operate under the company name. So since SuperValu and TJX are not stores unto themselves, I accepted subsidiaries. But otherwise, I did not attempt to accept sub-brands.

	Massagraf:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 17:48 GMT	5 points
	Best time for all right: 0 minute, 1 seconds. WTF?

	Lindsay:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 18:31 GMT	2 points
	Phil, did you include all subsidiaries? Because SuperValu here is Shaw's & Star Market, but neither of those worked for me.

	PhilSandifer:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 19:42 GMT	3 points
	Lindsay - I thought I included the big ones, but I appear to have missed Shaw's, which should be on there. Sorry.

	Lindsay:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:40 GMT	0 points
	That's alright Phil - great idea for a quiz, by the way! :)

	ZacharyTaylor:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:48 GMT	1 point
	however, the 2,3,4,5,6,and 7 added together make more than #1.

	Brian:	Dec 7th, 2008 at 20:49 GMT	2 points
	im surprised toys r' us isn't on here! i thought that would be huge!

	Mikey:	Dec 10th, 2008 at 19:52 GMT	4 points
	The fact that Publix in only in Fla and Ga for them to be on the list is impressive.

	croppja:	Jan 9th, 2009 at 01:45 GMT	3 points
	Publix is in more than just FL and GA. I know it's in TN. Used to go to it all the time when I lived in Nashville.

	drhaase:	Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:28 GMT	1 point
	14/20...didn't think i could enter Shaw's or Star...i didn't know the name of the big company (SuperValu)

	Kinsey:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	3 points
	If Albertsons brings up SuperValu, then Vons should bring up Safeway and Ralphs (and the other 19 companies as Shoban mentioned) should bring up Kroger.

	LovelyLibra:	Mar 26th, 2009 at 07:12 GMT	2 points
	I've never heard of Publix or TJX. Guess that's a disadvantage of living in Alaska. Most of the retailers on the list we don't have up here.

	Hope:	May 19th, 2009 at 00:49 GMT	1 point
	Jason is right. I live in Lebanon, TN just outside Nashville and we have publix's all over the place. I think we should have less time for this. Maybe five minutes? I got them all with 3:61 left on the clock.

	subway24:	Jun 20th, 2009 at 13:50 GMT	2 points
	I can't believe I missed Target! Also, they should make a supermarket one.

	mangothrower:	Jun 23rd, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	2 points
	This is actually rather outdated, as the statistics are from 2006.

	Bob91351:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 20:42 GMT	2 points
	not too bad, the only ones I missed were the two I have never heard of (SuperValu and Publix) Must be the sheltered life I live in SoCal

	twojacks:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 00:14 GMT	-1 points
	TJX is Marshall's, if anyone is wondering. I live 1 mile from a Kohl's and left it off. DOH!

	The_Snakes:	May 6th, 2010 at 15:00 GMT	2 points
	What about Piggly Wiggly?