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by ribosometronome 818 days ago
How sure are you about that?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/252678/walmarts-net-sale...

It looks like roughly 60% of groceries are sold at Walmart in the US. And unlike phones, where you can choose Android easily, many regions have only Walmart to shop at.

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That's the wrong metric. It should be obvious that the US market share of walmart on groceries, merchandise, and health don't conveniently sum to 100%, and that's not how you would present that data. You're looking at the % of WalMart's sales, not market share.

The answer is more like 25%: https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/most-popular-grocery-stores

This is saying 58% of Walmart's sales are groceries. Not 58% of grocery sales are through Walmart.