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2OO8 • TOP 1OO retailers Sponsored by COMPANY COMPANY HEADQUARTERS RANK • index COMPANY HEADQUARTERS RANK 7-Eleven A&P Abercrombie & Fitch Advance Auto Parts Ahold USA Albertsons Aldi Amazon.com Apple Stores/iTunes Army Air Force Exchange AT&T Wireless AutoZone Barnes & Noble Bass Pro Shops Bed Bath & Beyond Belk Berkshire-Hathaway Retail Best Buy Big Lots BJ’s Wholesale Club Blockbuster The Bon-Ton Stores Borders Group Brinker International Burlington Coat Factory Casey’s General Stores Circuit City Costco CVS Caremark Darden Restaurants Delhaize America Dell Retail Dick’s Sporting Goods Dillard’s Dollar General Dollar Tree Stores Family Dollar Foot Locker GameStop Gap Giant Eagle H.E.B. Harris Teeter Home Depot Hy-Vee IACI Retail JCPenney Kohl’s Kroger WWW.STORES.ORG Dallas Montvale, N.J. New Albany, Ohio Roanoke, Va. Chantilly, Va. Boise, Idaho Batavia, Ill. Seattle Cupertino, Calif. Dallas Atlanta Memphis, Tenn. New York Springfield, Mo. Union, N.J. Charlotte, N.C. Omaha, Neb. Minneapolis Columbus, Ohio Natick, Mass. Dallas York, Pa. Ann Arbor, Mich. Dallas Burlington, N.J. Ankeny, Iowa Richmond, Va. Issaquah, Wash. Woonsocket, R.I. Orlando Salisbury, N.C. Round Rock, Texas Pittsburgh Little Rock, Ark. Goodlettsville, Tenn. Chesapeake, Va. Matthews, N.C. New York Grapevine, Texas San Francisco Pittsburgh San Antonio Charlotte, N.C. Atlanta West Des Moines, Iowa St. Petersburg, Fla. Plano, Texas Menomonee Falls, Wis. Cincinnati 29 55 89 69 17 59 91 31 25 52 41 81 57 66 96 48 87 94 12 73 38 64 92 88 77 95 70 32 5 3 63 21 56 85 44 35 80 51 65 47 23 42 27 98 2 62 100 18 22 4 Limited Brands Longs Drug Stores Love’s Lowe’s Luxottica Retail Macy’s McDonald’s Meijer Menard Michaels Stores Neiman Marcus Group Nordstrom Office Depot OfficeMax The Pantry PetSmart PTC Publix Quik Trip QVC RaceTrac Petroleum RadioShack Raley’s Rite Aid Ross Stores Roundy’s Safeway Saks Save Mart Sears Holdings Sheetz Staples Starbucks Stater Bros. SUPERVALU Target TJX Toys “R” Us Trader Joe’s Travel Centers of America Valero Verizon Wireless Walgreen Wal-Mart Wawa Wegman’s Whole Foods Markets Williams-Sonoma Winn-Dixie Yum Brands Columbus, Ohio Walnut Creek, Calif. Oklahoma City, Okla. Mooresville, N.C. Cincinnati Cincinnati Oak Brook, Ill. Grand Rapids, Mich. Eau Claire, Wis. Irving, Texas Dallas Seattle Delray Beach, Fla. Naperville, Ill. Sanford, N.C. Phoenix Knoxville, Tenn. Lakeland, Fla. Tulsa, Okla. West Chester, Pa. Atlanta Fort Worth, Texas West Sacramento, Calif. Camp Hill, Pa. Pleasanton, Calif. Milwaukee, Wis. Pleasanton, Calif. New York Modesto, Calif. Hoffman Estates, Ill. Altoona, Pa. Framingham, Mass. Seattle San Bernardino, Calif. Eden Prairie, Minn. Minneapolis Framingham, Mass. Wayne, N.J. Monrovia, Calif. Westlake, Ohio San Antonio Basking Ridge, N.J. Deerfield, Ill. Bentonville, Ark. Wawa, Pa. Rochester, N.Y. Austin, Texas San Francisco Jacksonville, Fla. Louisville, Ky. 34 67 49 9 71 13 16 28 45 86 76 40 24 37 50 72 30 15 75 43 68 79 93 14 60 83 11 99 74 8 84 19 36 90 10 6 20 26 54 58 39 61 7 1 97 78 53 82 46 33 Alimentation Couche Tarde Laval, Quebec STORES JULY 2008 T19 http://Amazon.com http://WWW.STORES.ORG

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STORES Magazine - July 2008 Contents Executive Editor's Page President's Page Dearth of Retail Creativity What Shoppers Think Wow, Is That a Wawa? 10 Things You May Have Missed Numbers Worth Counting Full Price/Markdown Retail People Merchandising Strategy Concept2Watch Point of Sale Outsourcing Human Resources Top 100 Retailers Store Design RFID IT Operations Systems Managements LP Vantage Point Newsbeat Cover Story Emergency Response Systems Background Checks LOEB Retail Letter Point of View NRF News Retail Crossword Retail Industry Calendar Last Laugh

STORES Magazine - July 2008

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