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I'm not sure WholeFoods and Trader Joes are good representations of grocery stores nationwide. Both are classified as "Specialty and natural food stores" and have drastically fewer stores than the supermarket chains.

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This is part of what I was in the middle of commenting. This article seems like it's trying to force together a narrative from unrelated datapoints. TJs is one of the smallest grocery store chains and WF is just a bit bigger, meanwhile CVS is the largest drugstore chain. It is also unclear to me how "retail food marketshare" is measured. Is it just comparing overall revenue among chains that sell groceries? Sales of, specifically, grocery food items? Share of people who have shopped for groceries at these stores?

Just because someone buys a grocery item from CVS does not remotely imply that CVS is their primary grocery store.

The USDA has better numbers representing the market. https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/retailin...

Let me know when CVS beats Walmart in grocery sales.

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