These are the 15 Most Prosperous Retailers in the World

These Are the 15 Most Prosperous Retailers in the World

“Global retail sales are expected to slow this year as China and the rest of the BRICs [Brazil, Russia, India, and China] face tightening monetary policy and weaker demand abroad,” Rob Wile of Business Insider writes.

Well, that’s the takeaway from Deloitte’s annual ranking of the top 250 retail chains by sales at least.

While figures in 2011 saw some decent gains — U.S. sales grew 7.7 percent — Deloitte sees the world economy decelerating in 2012, according to Wile.

“Retailers targeting upscale consumers could see a more favorable environment,” Wile writes, “But the average consumer remains on uncertain financial footing and will seek out lower costs, the report states.”

The most successful retailers are a mixture of superstores, grocers, drug stores and wholesale providers. The leaders are U.S. firms, but Germany makes a fine showing.

Here are the 15 top retailers as compiled by Business Insider:

These are the 15 Most Prosperous Retailers in the World

See the Top Three Retailers at Business Insider.

Comments (48)

kimberlyjesus
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:11pm
Ha, Ha, Ha. All those prosperous stores will be up in smoke. No more money for you. GOD will see to it. Keep your own products in your own countries!
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LANE131
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:31pm
1. Even though i live near a Krogers, i go out of my way not to shop their because the store is very dirty, the meat in the cooler case seems much to warm, and the employees are rude, and most of all even if the first 3 problems were corrected, i still would not shop their because their is a sign on the door saying UNION EMPLOYEES work here, And i in my personal life, and for my small business, will always go out of my way NOT TO USE UNION. UNIONS SUCKS i will not give UNIONS my business, my money or my vote.
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normusa
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 12:28pm
Why didn’t the article mention Number 1 store? WAL-MART!! The US origin stores:#1 Wal-Mart #5 Kroger, #7 Costco, #8 Home Depot, #9 Walgreen, #11 Target, #13 CVS Caremark, #19 Best Buy, #20 Lowe’s, #22 Sears, #24 Safeway, #28 Amazon, #31 SuperValue, #33 Rite Aid.
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Tyscout
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:09pm
These is an error for Target it operates in two counrties United States and India.
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- Tyscout
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:10pm
  O’ Right and now Canada, so three
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krisiniL
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:16pm
I never stepped inside an Alid’s until I started looking seriously for ways to reduce my grocery bill last year. I use coupons, so I can get all the brand-name stuff cheaper elsewhere, but Alid’s is excellent for produce, milk, eggs, flour, sugar and other staples. The store is not fancy, you have to buy bags or bring your own, and you have to put in a deposit to get a cart (25 cents) but I save a ton of money there. Also, when I look around the parking lot, I see more and more expensive cars. Everyone’s trying to be a better shopper in this economy.
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Gonzo
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:19am
How dare those greedy capitalists prosper? NOBODY is allowed to prosper in Obama’s America! Call OWS and let’s camp out in front of those stores until they promise never to prosper again…who do they think they are?
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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:48am
Read the labels and check out who makes the product…communists. LOL

Ask a retailer how much they make an hour…some high skills are paid less than those who have low skills…It’s a strange world of dysfunction.

and yes I’m a conservative but there are inequities in retail..

And the customers are rude, ignorant and simply mean. But the sales associate is to smile and suck it up, eh?

Next time you go to a retail outlet, put the product in the right place if you aren’t going to buy it, control your children, don’t eat and walk the isles…and stop being nasty to the min wage workers…you are creating a class of people who hate you…

I laugh when I see high end cars like Mercedes,Porsches etc parked at wally world. If you can afford such a vehicle you need to be buying at the higher end stores and keep the union employee employed. LOL

Just saying.
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- PAR
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:19am
  Why would I “want to keep the union employee employed”?
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- THETAXMAN
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:44pm
  My greatest problem with Unions is that they want their employer to compete for business but not them.
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gr29az
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 7:53am
obamacare will destroy business as we know it
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Papa Joe
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 7:08am
http://worldb2blink.com/worldtop100retailers.htm
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paul1149
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:37am
The list starts at the wrong end, leaving off the top three.
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- arvadadan
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 4:30pm
  You just have to follow on to the end…
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Rumrunner3
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:42pm
Home Depot and Target were in an article just before the new year as company’s that were likely to fail this year. Kroger has turned over most of thier Distribution to non union companies.
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ballsofFe
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:38pm
The link to this story is an excellent example of what the Blaze should NOT do in the future. Why couldn’t the Blaze just type out and executive summary in order of store rank and gross earnings? We’re all adults, why do we have to play “click through the website” in lala land just to get the information? There’d be a lot less confusion, that’s for sure, look how many people couldn’t even figure out Walmart was #1 on the list.
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smartass
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:10pm
7 out of 13 most prosperous in the world……not bad for an Obama created Marxist, communist, socialist, liberal, progressive country. After all I read here on the Blaze I would not have thought this to be the case. Oh, and the rest are in socialist Europe.
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- bikerr
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:13pm
  Obama did this? who knew!
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- Jayms
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:25pm
  Not sure what you’re talking about – the Obama Economic Destruction Plan is just beginning.
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- smartass
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:50pm
  JAYMS
  
  Please, I’m really curious. Exactly what is this destruction plan of Obama. Keep it simple so someone like me can understand, but be specific. Wouldn’t want you to leave anything out.
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- Guitarcarl
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:44am
  I recommend you read Mark Levin’s new book “Ameritopia” should give you a very clear idea what Obozo is doing to destroy the economic system.
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- NOTAMUSHROOM
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:42am
  @Dumbass
  If you’re that clueless, it’s not worth the time it would take to enumerate the basics of Marxism 2012 (101) aka Obamanomics.
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- THETAXMAN
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:48pm
  We bacame socialist many years ago. We, like the frog boiling slowly, did not notice the changes slowly over time, but we are now, like the frog, cooked.
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TexBork
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:41pm
Exrepublisheep, Wouldn’t it be great to buy any product you wanted from the US? It would, but we can’t because our government incentives offshore companies to do our jobs cheaper than we can. Then you actually have the union leaders themselves saying that the workers of the world should unite and join in a social justice movement which through Marxism. This means that the unions leaders will be fighting for global control of labor and the wealth must be redistributed. The union leaders will still sit upon high, but the laborers underneath their feet will be reorganized as political pawns to be used as political leverage globally. So, for that to be achieved, wealth must be taken from our union workers and shifted to other nations in order to collectively round up the proletariat against the bourgeois. Of course, for union workers in 3rd world nations to be elevated, the Marxist playbook calls for leveling of the earnings of all the workers. That means the union workers of the US must give up their jobs to the underprivileged overseas and an equilibrium of global unemployment and poverty will be spread around the world. It doesn’t make anything better for our citizens, but does benefit other nations as the Marxist agenda continues to promote that we need to shift wealth from the US to other nations. It‘s by design and it’s what’s happening right now. That’s why the administration gives money to companies to close up and leave the US.
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:31pm
  I am unaware of any companies being paid to close up and go off overseas by the Dems at any level. I actually agreed with Ross Perot about globalization and the “giant sucking sound”. We need to set-up and enforce protectionist policies for the American worker but NEITHER party will accept that as it might cut into profits. I don’t know what to do about it but in the meantime I will buy American whenever possible and take whatever small comfort that gives me.
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- Wilma
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:09am
  Well said.
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- louise
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:30pm
  all of you will enjoy hearing what this WSJ economist has to say about Ron Paul’s solution to get America producing once again.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BjCq6woC_hg#!
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- THETAXMAN
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:51pm
  There is no sucking sound, it is a blowing (we don’t want you here) sound.
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- THETAXMAN
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:55pm
  If you want American made, BUY American made. But don’t force me to keep my factory here just so you can whip me harder.
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sillyfreshness
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:27pm
How was Walmart not on the list when they are the largest retailer in the world in sales and most employees? 2012, when SHTF once and for all.
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- Cat
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:04am
  …
  Silly>
  
  They are #15 of the 16
  Want a deeper peek into our future?
  Keep clicking the sub-links inside the Business Insider subject link
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gemmeri
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:26pm
Walmart’s prices went up after Sam Walton died & a board took over management of the chain. Service dropped off when they put the welfares & handicapped to work & they started importing goods from places like Vietnam. They made a lot of people very unhappy on those fronts. Then they closed out some of their popular departments in a very typical corporate-run decision & tried to convince their customers they are more upscale. They made a lot of towns unhappy when they built new Walmarts 10-15 miles apart, drove out all the established competitors & then closed some of those Walmarts down. Loss of established jobs, loss of Walmart jobs, loss of new jobs. A very typical modern corporate-run entity. Montgomery Wards went much the same way. So much for statistics… I don’t shop at the new one here because they are now more expensive & the quality has declined. My oldest son refuses to shop there because it is too difficult to navigate the store & the lack of service is appalling. Sam Walton had a good idea… It‘s too bad his successors don’t share it.
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- Onbendedknee
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:25pm
  Walmart prices didn’t go up when Mr. Sam passed on April 2, 1992. They went up when Mr. Glass retired and the board turned their back on what Mr. Sam built. Walmart has not won a price survey for over two years because they need margin to pay for the head office personnel. They put in an item file for every store in order to raise margins effectively throughout the country. Mr. Glass only allowed a second item file to be established in Puerto Rico due to the cost of transportation of merchandise to the island. Then eventually, each new country had their own item file. But, one for each store?
  While they are trying to bring back Mr. Sam’s company culture at this time, it may be too late for them.
  Personally, I pray for their leadership and hope they have the guts to cut out the bureaucracy that has made them a slave to high prices.
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MrMagoo
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:14pm
Menards,my favorite lumber yard ain’t on the list.They carry plenty of USA made products along with Made in Communist China stuff.Look at the label and decide.Your conscious or your wallet?I’m always looking for quality and it costs more.The Chinese can’t compete.You usually get what you pay for.
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luke145
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:06pm
Wal Mart is on the list. They show it as the most dominant chain store in the world at over $400 billion.
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MrMagoo
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:04pm
I was surprised to see Aldi on the list.They must still be doing something right.Back when my wife and I were raising kids in the early 80′s,we stopped at a little Aldi grocery store while on a vacation trip through Indiana.Canned veggies were $.20 cents.Loaves of bread $.35 cents.All kinds of everyday food with ridiculously cheap prices,and while not top name brand,was just as good and tasty as the higher priced stuff in other stores.At least our 3 kids never knew the difference!
After that we’d drive from Michigan to Indiana once a month or so,a 150 mile round trip,to stock up and save lots of $$$. Glad to see them succeeding!
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- Jayms
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:27pm
  Strangely, I’ve never heard of it.
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BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:00pm
Where’s Mardens?
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cmsgreek
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:51pm
I’m surprised wal-mart isn’t on the list!
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- arvadadan
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:59pm
  You have to follow to business insider to see the top tier…
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arvadadan
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:51pm
I luv it, Walmart the most hated corp in the world puts the rest to shame, must be that american work ethic and a little capitalism.
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IceCreamMan
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:45pm
Wal-mart?
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- Wdawg
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:51pm
  I was surprised not too see Walmart. I like Walmart but stopped going awhile ago, not because of the business or the way its run. Its the people that shopped there. It was so depressing at my local Walmart and starting to rub off on me. Even some of the cashiers looked dead inside.
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:59am
  Wal-mart? They are being killed where they have competition. (cities & large towns) I stopped going there when china took they over ….I can buy china crap at the flea market for half the price
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TexBork
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:32pm
This makes perfect sense and fits right into Obama’s social justice agenda of spreading the wealth. His agenda, crafted by hard left socialist institutes delivered to him to implement as policy outright called for a draining of the US economy to foreign nations in order to boost global social justice at the cost of every US citizen which delivers a major blow to the US economy so that it can be reformed into a true global socialist economy. Radical leftists like Obama and Soros and the other socialist and communist nations believe that the economic assets of the US should be taken from our nation and redistributed to the rest of the world and that will take us down, by design. Stopping and reversing the Marxist agenda that has caused this means that Obama must be defeated in November.
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:49pm
  American consumers, not the President, makes this choice. No one tells you to buy chinese products.
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- A Conservatarian
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:00pm
  exrepublisheep… walk into a homedepot, lowes or ace and try to find work gloves made in America… or most anything else for that matter that isn’t paint (shoot even then..)
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:20pm
  @Conservatarian. Valid point but try staying OUT of those spots. Go to locally owned businesses instead, if they exist where you are. Go online and search for “Made in America” products. Google gets me there. It sucks not having the convenience of the Huge chain-store down the road but you get better quality for just slightly more.
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