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The exclusion of it seems to undermine their point? They use a questionable method they use for their "Top Five Grocers by U.S. market share." which seems to b

The exclusion of it seems to undermine their point? They use a questionable method they use for their "Top Five Grocers by U.S. market share." which seems to be using fiscal year end sales for Walmart even though they sell more than food but only counting Whole Foods revenue for Amazon even though it obviously sells food through its main website. If you correct for very obvious problems with the data source in their marketshare picture like limiting Walmart/Sam's Club to food sales and including Amazon's online food sales Walmart has about 18% of the market in the US and Amazon has about 11%. It's weird that they use store count sourced through OpenStreetMap most of the article than in the graphic just kind of switch to a totally different source based on revenue? But using that questionable method Wegman's would be the 13th largest chain right behind Trader Joe's which they do list and well above many of the chains in their dataset. I have to imagine it's not an intentional exclusion just poor data collection? Also why is Giant Eagle colored the same color as Ahold Delhaize on the map?

philwelch 2y ago
> The exclusion of it seems to undermine their point? I’m shocked, shocked, that a newspaper would exclude information that would undermine the editorial point it was making!
- detourdog 2y ago
  This is sort of what I was thinking. I remember when Ahold bought out that family. That left Weis Markets as our last family owned regional chain.
terinjokes 2y ago
> Also why is Giant Eagle colored the same color as Ahold Delhaize on the map? I had thought it was because Ahold Delhaize owned Giant, and they do. However, it turns out Giant Eagle is an entirely separate company, which makes the color pick even more confusing to me.
detourdog 2y ago
I see what you are saying. The article has and agenda and they are using it. Traders Joe’s is also nationwide but lacks the density in most areas. I thinks Wegman’s focused on the Interstate 81 corridor for expansion.

philwelch 2y ago

> The exclusion of it seems to undermine their point? I’m shocked, shocked, that a newspaper would exclude information that would undermine the editorial point it was making!

detourdog 2y ago
This is sort of what I was thinking. I remember when Ahold bought out that family. That left Weis Markets as our last family owned regional chain.

terinjokes 2y ago

> Also why is Giant Eagle colored the same color as Ahold Delhaize on the map? I had thought it was because Ahold Delhaize owned Giant, and they do. However, it turns out Giant Eagle is an entirely separate company, which makes the color pick even more confusing to me.

detourdog 2y ago

I see what you are saying. The article has and agenda and they are using it. Traders Joe’s is also nationwide but lacks the density in most areas. I thinks Wegman’s focused on the Interstate 81 corridor for expansion.