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"Stability is reflected in the first 10 positions on STORES Magazine’s annual Top 100 Retailers list: The companies are the same as they were last year, with the only changes being six of them moved up or down a notch in swapping positions with each other."
Walmart
"Walmart has undertaken a number of initiatives to assure it remains king of the retail hill.
Regarding Amazon’s retail initiatives, the company is moving in several directions at once. In bricks-and-mortar, there are plans for a new supermarket concept outside the boundaries of Whole Foods Market to be launched in the Los Angeles area."
Amazon
"No. 2 Amazon.com’s retail business is nowhere near as large as No. 1 Walmart’s, but Amazon is easily the most disruptive and influential force in the retail industry. Amazon retails non-tangible goods and services, including electronic books and publications, digital music and videos, and streaming entertainment, much of which is proprietary.
As a corporate entity, most of Amazon’s profit comes from its other business, notably Amazon Web Services cloud computing and advertising. While the retail business continues to grow, the rate of growth is slowing down. That’s one reason the company planned to spend $800 million in the second quarter of this year to boost its retail business, including faster delivery to customers.
Amazon is estimated to have more than 100 million Prime members, who tend to be the retailer’s best customers: Non-Prime members spend about $600 a year on Amazon’s website, says Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, while Prime members averaged about $1,400 in purchases last year."
Kroger
"Kroger invested a reported $250 million in Ocado last year, and now the two are ready to open the first of about 20 automated warehouses around the United States to handle online grocery services... including expanding store pickup locations for online order and grocery delivery service. Along with others, it’s also working on driverless technology and experimenting with autonomous grocery delivery; Kroger currently works with Instacart delivery service at about 1,600 locations.
Kroger is also working on an app for mobile devices that will allow it to communicate directly with customers’ phones."
Source: https://stores.org/2019/07/01/2019-top-100-retailers/

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