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U.S. Food Retail Industry - Statistics & Facts
The food retail industry comprises foods sold at food retailers such as grocery stores, mass merchandisers, drug stores, convenience stores and foodservice facilities. Total retail and food service sales in the United States amounted to about 5.32 trillion U.S. dollars in 2015.
The American retail landscape is characterized by leading food retailers such as Walmart, Kroger and Costco. Walmart (excluding Walmart International and Sam's Club) generated net sales amounting to 298.38 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 and operated 4,574 stores nationwide.
Shoppers in the United States made about 1.6 trips to grocery stores on average per week in 2016. According to a recent survey, some 65 percent of U.S. shopping trips are reported as quick trips, while 10 percent of shopping trips were driven by pantry-stocking. In addition, customers tend to do their grocery shopping mainly between 11 am and 3pm.
Food retail in the United States - Important statistics
- 1. U.S. food retail market
+Total retail and food services sales in the U.S. 1992-2015- +Annual sales of retail food and beverage stores in the U.S. 1992-2015
- +Grocery store sales in the U.S. 1992-2015
- U.S. supermarket and other grocery store sales 1992-2015
- +Food service and drinking place sales in the U.S. 1992-2015
- +Drinking place sales in the U.S. 1992-2015
- +U.S. retail trade and food service sales 2015, by store type
- +Retail industry digital ad spend in the U.S. 2010-2020
- 2. Structure of the U.S. food retail industry
- +Number of food retail stores in the U.S. 2011-2015, by format
- +Food retail store sales in the U.S. by format 2013-2015
- +Number of supermarket stores in the U.S. 2011-2015, by format
- +Supermarket sales in the U.S. by format 2013-2015
- +Number of supermarket stores in the U.S. by operator 2013-2015
- +Sales of supermarket stores in the U.S. by operator 2013-2015
- +Sales of supermarket chain stores in the U.S. by sales range 2013-2015
- +Sales of independent supermarket stores in the U.S. by sales range 2013-2015
- +Number of U.S. supermarket chain stores by sales range 2013-2015
- +Number of independent supermarket stores in the U.S. by sales range 2013-2015
- +Percentage of supermarket sales in the U.S. by department 2016
- U.S retail: share of perishables supermarket sales 2015, by product department
- +Supermarket sales in the U.S. 2015, by product category
- +Average sales per store of U.S. supermarkets 2012-2015
- +Average per store selling area of supermarkets in the U.S. 2012-2015
- +Average number of checkouts per supermarket store in the U.S. 2012-2015
- 3. Leading U.S. food retailers
- +Leading U.S. food retailers 2015, based on sales
- +Sales of the fastest-growing food retailers in the U.S. 2015
- +Market share of the fastest-growing FDM channel retailers in the U.S. 2015
- +Leading supermarkets in the U.S. 2015, based on retail sales
- +Number of stores of the leading supermarkets in the U.S. 2015
- 4. Leading three U.S. food retail companies
- +Walmart's net sales worldwide 2008-2017, by division
- +Number of Walmart stores worldwide 2006-2017, by division
- +Retail sales area of Walmart 2010-2017, by division
- +Kroger's sales in the U.S. 2007-2016
- +Kroger's number of stores 2009-2016
- +Kroger's total food store sales area 2009-2016
- +Costco's net sales worldwide 2010-2016
- +Costco's number of warehouses worldwide 2010-2016
- +Costco's average sales per warehouse worldwide 2010-2016
- 5. U.S. consumer behavior
- Median household income in the United States 1990-2015
- U.S. household expenditure on average 2010-2015
- U.S. household food expenditure on average 2000-2015
- Average annual food at-home expenditure of U.S. households 2000-2015
- Average annual food away-from-home expenditures of U.S. households 2010-2015
- +Weekly U.S. household grocery expenditure by household size 2011-2014
- Average trips made per month by U.S. shoppers by channel 2014
- +Number of grocery shopping locations visited by U.S. consumers regularly 2015
- Grocery shopping: U.S. consumers' weekly trips per household 2006-2016
- +U.S. grocery shopping trips share 2015, by time of day
- +U.S. average shopping basket size 2015, by time of day
- +Grocery shopping: U.S. consumers' trips by trip mission 2014
- +Food purchase influencers among U.S. consumers 2016, by type
- +Reasons why women use self-checkout when buying groceries in the U.S. 2015
- +Checkout processes U.S. consumers use when purchasing groceries 2015
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