Redner's Markets ranked 4th on national list of small grocery chains

Supermarket News released its annual list of the Top 50 Small Chains & Independents a couple weeks ago. Topping the list is PAQ, a California-based retailer that operates stores in Northern California and Hawaii. Lowe's Markets, based in Texas, was second, and California-based Northgate Gonzalez Market was third.

Redner's Markets was the top Philadelphia area company and was fourth on the list. Supermarket News ranks companies with annual revenues between $275 million and $1 billion by estimated sales volume for 2013.

The only other store from the Greater Philadelphia Market that made the list was Brown's Super Stores (ShopRite owner/operator). They were ranked number 29.

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Redner's 6th on list of small chains and independents

Last year The Fresh Market and Grocery Outlet were the top two grocers on Supermarket News' list of Top 50 Small Chains and Independents, but their growth has lifted them off the list and on to the Top 75 list of the largest food retailers and wholesalers in the U.S. and Canada. Last year Grocery Outlet, based in Berkeley, CA, purchased Amelia's, a chain based in Southeastern PA.

Redner's Markets, seventh on last year's list, moved up to sixth due to the addition of three stores. Brown's Super Stores, a ShopRite operator that's part of the Wakefern cooperative, is 35th on this year's list.

Fareway Stores (Boone, Iowa) operates 102 stores and tops the list, while PAQ, Inc. of Stockton, CA is second.