Largest retailers in the US: the top 26 by US retail revenue, from their 10-Ks

This list is for sellers, suppliers, analysts and job seekers who need a sourced ranking of the biggest retailers in the US and want the US number, not the global one. It ranks public retailers by the US retail revenue in their latest annual report on Form 10-K filed by 30 October 2026, using the US segment where the company reports one, and sets the figures against the Census Bureau's retail sales totals for 2025.

The 26 largest retailers in the US

Revenue is as each 10-K reports it. Where a company reports a US segment or US sales, we use that; otherwise the company total, which for most of these retailers is almost all US. Headquarters are the business addresses on file with the SEC. Employee counts are as each filing words them; Tractor Supply's and Dick's figures are our sums of the full-time and part-time numbers the filings give.

Rows that need a note:

• Amazon's North America segment ($426.3 billion) includes Canada and Mexico, plus advertising, subscriptions and third-party seller fees as well as its own retail sales. Amazon doesn't report US-only retail sales, so it is the least like-for-like row.
• CVS's Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segment runs its retail pharmacies and stores, and includes sales to other CVS segments before eliminations. CVS's $402.1 billion company total is mostly health insurance and pharmacy benefits.
• Costco's fiscal year ended August 30, 2026, eight months after the calendar year; its US revenue grew from $200.0 billion to $219.8 billion.
• Walgreens is missing because it completed a merger on August 28, 2025 that took it private, and it no longer files 10-Ks. Large private chains such as Aldi, H-E-B and Meijer publish no audited US results, so they aren't ranked.

How big US retail is

The Census Bureau's Monthly Retail Trade survey puts US retail sales for 2025 at:

Source: US Census Bureau, Estimates of Monthly Retail and Food Services Sales by Kind of Business, 2025 totals (not seasonally adjusted, subject to revision). Census counts sales by store type, so a retailer's revenue doesn't map exactly to one row.

As a rough guide, Walmart's $576.0 billion of US revenue equals about 10% of the $5.69 trillion spent at retailers other than car dealers (our calculation; Walmart's year runs February to January and its segment figures include fuel and ecommerce). Home Depot and Lowe's together took in $238.5 billion, about 47% of the $505.3 billion sold by building materials and garden stores.

How we built the list

1. Who counts. US-headquartered public companies whose main business is selling goods to consumers. Restaurants, car dealers and gas station chains are left out.
2. What's counted. US retail revenue as each 10-K reports it: the US segment where there is one (Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Home Depot, CVS, TJX, Best Buy), otherwise the company total.
3. Which year. The latest fiscal year with a 10-K filed by 30 October 2026. Most retailers end their year around January 31.
4. Checking. Every figure was matched to the 10-K. The National Retail Federation's annual Top 100 ranks by US retail sales and includes private chains, so its figures and order differ from these. Several aggregator pages in the top results repeat older figures: one still gives Walmart's US retail sales as $459.51 billion.

What the list is good for if you sell B2B

Know where retail buying sits. General guidance, not drawn from the filings. At large retailers, merchandising teams buy what goes on the shelves; goods-not-for-resale (store fixtures, technology, facilities, logistics, marketing services) go through indirect procurement, with store operations, supply chain and IT owning the requirements. Selling to merchants and selling to procurement are different motions.

Size by store count and headcount, not revenue alone. A software or services deal priced by store or by employee depends on the footprint: Dollar General employs about 194,000 people for $42.7 billion of sales, while Costco employs 232,000 in the US for $219.8 billion. Our guide to selling to retailers covers the buying process in more depth, and our list of the largest grocery companies covers the food side.

Use fiscal calendars. Most retailers close their year at the end of January and lock budgets in the weeks before. Planning conversations in late summer and autumn, before holiday trading, usually land better than a January pitch.

Worked example

Illustrative example. Shelfwise (shelfwise.example) sells store-level task management software at an illustrative $15 per store employee per year. Its seller compares two accounts from this list:

• Ross Stores: about 111,000 associates, so a full rollout is worth 111,000 x $15 = about $1.7 million a year.
• Burlington: 83,309 associates, 79% of them part-time or seasonal, so about 65,800 part-time and seasonal workers. A rollout to those alone is worth 65,800 x $15 = about $987,000 a year.

Both are off-price chains with similar store models, so a win at one becomes a reference for the other. The seller targets the head of store operations and the store systems leader in IT at each, and opens with the cost of onboarding seasonal staff. Finding those leaders and what's changed at each chain is the slow part; Bebop researches each account in a list like this.

Next step: see how the largest employers in the US compare, since eleven of the top 30 are retailers.