When Stores Magazine released its annual Top 100 Retailers list on Wednesday (July 1), the list was pretty much the same as last year. Had it been shaken up, interesting analysis could be had explaining why. But when a list is that static, it’s hard to read much into it. That didn’t stop the editors of Stores, though.

The list itself, which the magazine has done for years and which has become the gold standard of retail lists in the U.S., shows the top 10 retailers, in sequence, as Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Home Depot, Walgreen, Target, CVS, Lowe’s, Amazon and Safeway. That’s pretty much the list from last year. Target dropped from fourth last year to sixth this year, and Home Depot moved up one notch (from fifth to fourth), but those are the only top 10 changes.

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