San Antonio-based H-E-B<\/a> was ranked the No. 1 grocery retailer in the US for the fifth time in nine years, according to Dunnhumby\u2019s latest annual ranking of grocery stores.<\/p>\nThe family-owned company, which was founded in 1905 and operates more than 440 stores, is \u201cfirmly entrenched as the top retailer due to its superior ability to deliver a combination of better savings, quality, experience, and assortment,\u201d the study found.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts-based Market Basket ranked second, followed by Wisconsin-based Woodman\u2019s in third.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time, the leading three retailers in the United States are all regional chains,\u201d Dunnhumby noted.<\/p>\n
Costco was ranked No. 4, followed by Aldi, WinCo Foods, Trader Joe\u2019s, Amazon, Wegmans and ShopRite rounding out the top 10.<\/p>\n
Amazon, which topped the rankings in 2021 and 2022, slipped two spots this year, while Sam\u2019s Club dropped six places.<\/p>\n
The family-owned company was founded in 1905 and operates more than 440 stores. Ron \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
The study evaluated 81 major US grocery stores, combining financial performance with survey responses from more than 11,000 American shoppers.<\/p>\n
Participants were asked about pricing, quality, convenience, operations and online ordering.<\/p>\n
The rankings come as consumers face mounting financial pressure.<\/p>\n
Costco was ranked No. 4, followed by Aldi, WinCo Foods, Trader Joe\u2019s, Amazon, Wegmans and ShopRite rounding out the top 10. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
Shopper confidence declined last year amid concerns over rising prices, limited job opportunities and stagnant wages, according to Matt O\u2019Grady, president of the Americas for Dunnhumby.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsumers across all income levels are feeling the squeeze and making more price-conscious choices,\u201d O\u2019Grady said in a statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn this environment, building trust with American shoppers has never been more critical.\u201d<\/p>\n
The study evaluated 81 major US grocery stores. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
Overall food prices were up 0.7% in December and 3.1% from a year ago, according to the December consumer price index (CPI).<\/p>\n
The all-items CPI index showed inflation pushed prices 0.3% higher last month and 2.7% on an annual basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas-based chain has once again been named America\u2019s top grocery store, beating out major competitors, including Amazon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5559,910,11703,3613,16780,82,27,29,28,20589],"class_list":["post-132889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-costco","tag-food-drink","tag-retailers","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trader-joes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}