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Top 25 Grocery chains worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,798 grocery chains worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 1,226,000 professional contacts across them, including 104,798 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers grocery chains worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for grocery chains follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest grocery chains worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70,439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Kroger, we believe no matter who you are or how you like to shop, everyone deserves affordable, easy-to-enjoy, fresh food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 60,447 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1930, Publix Super Markets is the largest and fastest-growing employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 41,647 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 41,107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Safeway operates as a banner of Albertsons Companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 31,636 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Atacadão é uma empresa do Grupo Carrefour Brasil, com mais de 370 unidades de autosserviço e 36 atacados de entrega e centros de distribuição, que garantem o abastecimento de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 30,845 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When it comes to getting value for everyday items for the entire family in an easy to shop, neighborhood location, Family Dollar is the best place to go.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 25,983 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cencosud is one of Latin America’s leading multi-format retailers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 23,405 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our team of friendly faces works as one to provide shopping trips and a career experience you won’t find anywhere else.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 20,321 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Trader Joe’s is a national chain of neighborhood grocery stores.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20,009 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the largest food retail companies in Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19,954 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17,461 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wegmans Food Markets is a family-owned regional supermarket chain and one of the largest private companies in the US.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 16,027 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C, and its associates have a longstanding history of serving its customers and communities through 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15,761 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jumbo is een Brabants familiebedrijf met een rijke historie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13,606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sobeys Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12,936 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos o Grupo Mateus, um conglomerado de empresas que opera no varejo de supermercados, atacarejo, móveis e eletrodomésticos, indústria de panificação, distribuição de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12,693 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11,813 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DMart is a one-stop supermarket chain that aims to offer customers a wide range of basic home and personal products under one roof.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11,757 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sprouts is the place where goodness grows.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11,558 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stop & Shop has been around for more than 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11,265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Giant Eagle, we believe in nourishing life’s moments, big and small, because they matter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11,189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1960 in North Carolina, Harris Teeter has been enriching the lives of our customers and our communities for decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10,195 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1925, Winn-Dixie grocery stores and liquor stores serve communities throughout Florida and southern Georgia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8,859 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups, we are a leader in supermarkets and e-commerce, and a company at the forefront of sustainable retailing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8,658 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Proudly serving our customers in the Chicagoland area since 1899, Jewel-Osco provides friendly service, quality products and great value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: grocery chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names grocery chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of grocery chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name grocery chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Grocery chains worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among grocery chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 15 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, Italy, Germany, India, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands and 5 more. Country and city lists for grocery chains are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “grocery chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names grocery chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among grocery chains, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 104,798 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Grocery chains by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Grocery chains list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Grocery chains based in the United States1,406
- Grocery chains based in Brazil1,240
- Grocery chains based in Italy478
- Grocery chains based in Germany269
- Grocery chains based in India252
- Grocery chains based in France217
- Grocery chains based in Canada165
- Grocery chains based in the United Kingdom135
- Grocery chains based in Spain131
- Grocery chains based in the Netherlands129
- Grocery chains based in Australia125
- Grocery chains based in Belgium73
- Grocery chains based in Türkiye72
- Grocery chains based in Sweden53
- Grocery chains based in the United Arab Emirates53
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names grocery chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many grocery chains are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,798 grocery chains worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Kroger, headquartered in Cincinnati, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most grocery chains?
The United States leads with 1,406 companies, followed by Brazil (1,240) and Italy (478). Every grocery chains list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most grocery chains?
Sao Paulo leads with 79 headquartered companies, followed by Rio De Janeiro (32) and Roma (31).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 104,798 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,798 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.