On the Record · Walmart
Walmart competitors, on the record
The companies Walmart names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2026, and the companies that name Walmart, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Walmart names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Costco | 2023, 2024 |
In its own words
Costco
Word for word“Sam's Club competes with other membership-only warehouse clubs, the largest of which is Costco, as well as with discount retailers, retail and wholesale grocers, general merchandise wholesalers and distributors, gasoline stations as well as omni-channel and eCommerce retailers and catalog businesses.” 10-K for 2024
Who names Walmart
Companies whose own annual reports name Walmart as a competitor.
Word for word“Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Amazon are among our significant general merchandise retail competitors in the U.S.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the areas it serves, the Company competes with other drugstore chains (e.g., Walgreens), supermarkets, discount retailers (e.g., Walmart), independent pharmacies, restrictive pharmacy networks, online retailers (e.g., Amazon), membership clubs, infusion pharmacies, as well as mail order dispensing pharmacies.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Competition may also increase from large technology companies, such as Apple, Amazon (which acquired One Medical in February 2023), Facebook, Verizon, or Microsoft, who may wish to develop or expand their own telehealth solutions or partner with our other competitors, as well as from large retailers like Kroger, CVS Health Corporation (which signed a definitive agreement to acquire Oak Street Health in February 2023), Walgreens or Walmart.” 10-K for 2022
Word for word“Our general merchandise business also faces competition from direct-to-student sales from Walmart, Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Rally House, Fanatics, Lids, and other third-party online retailers, physical and online office supply stores and local and national retailers that offer college-themed and other general merchandise.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our primary direct competitors are Walmart, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“The competitive landscape is highly fragmented and localized; however, our customers most often cite Walmart and Safeway as retailers where they also shop for consumables.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“We compete with select mass merchants, including Walmart Inc. and Target Corporation, which dedicate a portion of their selling space to selling Creative Products items.” 10-K for 2023
Word for word“Our advertising solutions compete with a number of products offered by various companies active in the advertising industry, including large and established internet and technology companies, such as Amazon, or large retail corporations, such as Walmart.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“We also face competition from mass-market retail competitors, such as Walmart and Costco, who devote shelf space to merchandise and products targeted to our consumers, as well as online mass-market retailers such as Amazon, who devote online categories to merchandise and products targeted to our consumers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Examples of our competitive set include but are not limited to Gap Inc., Amazon, Walmart, Macy’s, JCPenney, Target and TJX Companies.” 10-K for 2020
Word for word“Our retail drugstore operations compete with, among others, retail drugstore chains, such as Walgreens and CVS, along with independently owned drugstores, supermarkets such as Kroger, mass merchandisers like Walmart and Target, discount stores, wellness offerings, dollar stores and mail order and internet pharmacies.” 10-K for 2023
Word for word“We compete with online retailers such as Amazon and traditional retailers like Best Buy and Walmart, who sell through brick-and-mortar stores and their online websites.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Our markets are highly competitive and we compete locally, domestically and internationally with office supply resellers, including Staples, Internet-based companies such as Amazon, mass merchandisers such as Walmart and Target, wholesale clubs such as Costco, Sam’s Club and BJs, computer and electronics superstores such as Best Buy, food and drug stores, discount stores, and direct marketing companies.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“Some of QVC’s competitors, such as Amazon and Walmart, have a significantly greater web-presence.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“However, we do face competition from various retail formats such as hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, cash and carry outlets, home improvement centers, electronic retailers and specialty stores, including those within Latin America that are owned and operated by large U.S. and international retailers, including Walmart, Inc. in Central America and Grupo Éxito in Colombia and Cencosud in South America.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Some of our competitors, such as Amazon and Walmart, have a significantly greater web-presence.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We also face increased competition from Walmart (which makes and sells Onn. branded streaming products, including co-branded Roku TV models), in light of its acquisition of Vizio (which makes and sells smart TVs with a proprietary operating system) and the integration of Vizio’s operating system into Walmart products instead of other third-party proprietary operating systems.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Walmart, Target, Kohl's, J.C. Penney, Macy's, The Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy and Amazon are some of the national retailers and businesses with which we compete.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“Our properties compete with other forms of retailing such as pure online retail websites as well as other types of retail properties such as single user freestanding discounters (Costco, Walmart and Target).” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal competitors include conventional grocers such as Albertson's/Safeway and Kroger, warehouse clubs and discounters such as Costco and Aldi, mass merchandisers such as Walmart and Target, foodservice delivery companies such as Sysco and US Foods, online retailers such as Amazon, as well as other specialty stores.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“Our competitors within the overall grocery industry primarily include other specialty food retailers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and smaller local or regional operators, conventional supermarkets such as Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway, H-E-B and Publix, as well as mass or discount retailers such as Target and Walmart, warehouse membership clubs, online retailers such as Amazon, specialty stores, restaurants, home delivery and meal solution companies, and any other outlets offering food and similar products as those found in our stores.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We also compete with online retailers such as Amazon.com, mass merchants such as Walmart and Target, warehouse clubs such as Costco, computer and electronics retail stores such as Best Buy, specialty technology stores such as Apple, print and marketing businesses such as FedEx Office, and a wide range of other retailers, including grocery stores, drug stores, discount retailers, and traditional office supply retail stores.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“In the domestic market, we compete with mass merchandisers, such as Walmart, Target and Kmart; consumer electronics retailers, such as Best Buy and GameStop; Internet and catalog businesses, such as Amazon.com; national and regional specialty, department and discount store chains; as well as local retailers in the geographic areas we serve.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“Some of the Company's principal competitors include Acme, Aldi, Amazon/Whole Foods, BJs, Costco, Foodtown, Giant, Kings, Lidl, Safeway, Stop & Shop, Target, Trader Joe's, Walmart, Wegmans and Weis.” 10-K for 2026
Read from Walmart’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-13. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.