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This statistic depicts the leading supermarkets in the United States in 2011, based on retail sales. In that year, Kroger was the leading supermarket in the United States based on retail sales of about 77.02 billion U.S. dollars.
Kroger was founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio where it is headquartered today as well. Its store formats include supermarkets, hypermarkets, department stores, convenience stores, as well as mall jewelry stores.