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To: Jim Bishop who wrote (87681)	7/5/2001 12:18:38 PM
From: john	Respond to of 150070

Wal-Mart still largest retailer, Home Depot No. 3 CHICAGO, July 5 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <WMT.N> retained its position as the largest U.S. retailer in terms of annual sales and food retailer Kroger Co. <KR.N> stayed in the No. 2 spot, while home improvement giant Home Depot Inc. <HD.N> knocked off Sears, Roebuck and Co. <S.N> to take the No. 3 spot, an annual survey by a retail trade group found. Retail industry sales as a whole in 2000 rose to $3.4 trillion, up 7.1 percent from 1999, according to the survey of the top 100 retailers compiled by the National Retail Federation and technology company Triversity Inc. Discounter Kmart Corp. <KM.N> is the nation's fifth largest retailer, followed in descending order by grocery store chain Albertson's Inc. <ABS.N>, Target Corp. <TGT.N>, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. <JCP.N>, Costco Wholesale Corp. <COST.O> and grocer Safeway Inc. <SWY.N>. The nation's top 10 retailers had total sales of $536 billion in 2000, or more than half the total sales of the top 100 retailers. Wal-Mart alone had 2000 sales of $193.3 billion. ((--Chicago Equities News at 312-408-8787, chicago.equities.newsroom@reuters.com)) REUTERS * end of story *