Giant Food Stores is dominant retailer in Maryland and Virginia

(Photo courtesy The Giant Food Co.)

By a wide margin, Giant Food Stores is the retail market leader in Maryland, Virginia and the District Columbia.

According to 2021 Shelby Market Data, Giant commanded a 24.6% share in the Maryland/District of Columbia/North Virginia/Delaware, followed by Safeway in second place, at a 12.8% share. Wegmans was ranked third, with an 8.55% share.

Coming in after Wegmans, Walmart’s retail share was 8.43%.

The market includes Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, California-Lexington Park, Charlottesville, Cumberland, Hagerstown-Martinsburg, and Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, Winchester.

Through April, retail supermarkets in the region were lagging behind the super-hot pandemic performance of the first part of the pandemic in 2020.

U.S. Census Bureau-reported sales at District of Columbia food and beverage stores for April, the most recent month available, showed retail food sales slumped 10.8%, compared with year-ago levels.

April sales in Virginia were off 5.7% compared with April 2020. Maryland, however, showed a 1% gain in food and beverage sales in April, compared with a year ago.

Here is the complete retail ranking for 2021, according to Shelby Market Data:

Market                             Stores              Sales                            Market Share

GIANT FOOD STORES           157               $5,349,566,000                           24.59%

SAFEWAY                                113                $2,783,270,000                          12.79%

WEGMANS                                20                $1,860,895,000                            8.55%

WALMART INC                        105                $1,833,601,840                            8.43%

HARRIS TEETER                      53                $1,372,601,000                            6.31%

WEIS MARKETS                       59                $1,160,568,000                            5.33%

WHOLE FOODS MARKET        26                $1,120,287,000                            5.15%

FOOD LION                               69                   $980,229,000                             4.51%

COSTCO WHOLESALE            32                   $594,247,920                             2.73%

SHOPPERS                               24                   $508,407,000                             2.34%

MARTIN’S FOOD MARKET       19                   $469,895,000                             2.16%

TARGET                                     75                   $434,042,000                             1.99%

TRADER JOE’S                         23                   $418,634,000                              1.92%

SHOPRITE                                 11                   $342,501,000                              1.57%

SAM’S CLUB                             13                    $283,877,880                              1.30%

BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB         19                    $270,616,840                              1.24%

PRICE RITE                                5                    $232,794,000                               1.07%

ALDI                                           79                   $196,795,000                                0.90%

MOM’S ORGANIC MARKET     12                    $129,310,000                                0.59%

SAVE-A-LOT FOOD STORES   28                    $124,952,000                                0.57%

HMART                                      10                     $103,420,000                               0.48%

GRAUL’S MARKET                     4                      $86,736,000                                 0.40%

SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET 5                      $81,642,000                                 0.38%

KROGER                                     6                      $77,074,000                                 0.35%

EDDIE’S MARKET                      4                       $76,693,000                                 0.35%

GIANT EAGLE                            2                        $64,605,000                                0.30%

THE FRESH MARKET                6                        $58,773,000                                0.27%

ALL OTHERS                          166                        $742,273,800                              3.41%

GRAND TOTAL                    1,145                        $21,758,307,280                         100.00%

— Source: Shelby Market Data

 

 

 

 

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