Updated May 06, 2013
Many of the world's largest hypermarkets are also discount stores. But not all of the world's largest discount store chains are hypermarkets. Discount stores are defined by their pricing model, which is substantially lower than their competitors. The prices of most of the merchandise in a discount store are below manufacturer's suggested retail prices.
Six of the fourteen discount store chains that are the largest in the world are located in Europe. The U.S. has only three retail chains that are strictly discount chains on the current world's largest list. Most of the largest discount chains in the U.S. are classified as hypermarkets.
What follows is the complete list of discount store retail chains ranked on the 2010 Global Powers of Retailing list. The number in the left column is the global ranking number assigned to the company, based on its revenue figures, compared to other top retail organizations worldwide.
Discount Retail Chains Ranked Among the 250 Largest Retailers In the World:
5 Schwarz Unternehmens Treuhand KG
Germany
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9 Aldi GmbH & Company oHG
Germany
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78 Dansk Supermarked A/S
Denmark
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82 Dollar General Corp.
U.S.
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88 Reitangruppen AS
Norway
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94 Jeronimo Martins, SGPS S.A.
Portugal
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104 X5 Retail Group N.V.
Russia
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118 Hudson's Bay Trading Company, L.P.
U.S.
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126 Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
U.S.
163 Norma Lebensmittelfilliabetrieb, GmbH & Company KG
Germany
171 Don Quijote Company, Ltd.
Japan
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174 Big Lots, Inc.
U.S.
200 Lojas Americanas S.A.
Brazil
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202 Distribucion y Servicio DGS S.A.
Chile
241 BIM (Birleski Magazalar A.A.)
Turkey
More World's Largest Retailers:
- Largest Supermarkets in the World
- Largest North American Retail Companies
- Complete list of World's Largest Retailers
- 2010 Global Store Openings and Expansion
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