Category Leaderboard
Grocery & Supermarkets
15 tracked retailers, ranked by NOligarchy Score. Best pick: Sprouts Farmers Market (75.4).
0 · worst score
avg 47.2
100 · best
Scores in Grocery & Supermarkets vary widely: 75.4 (Sprouts Farmers Market) at the top down to 6.7 (Walmart) at the bottom — a 69-point gap. 15 retailers are tracked. 1 rated Trusted and 4 rated Avoid. Grocery & Supermarkets ranks 38th cleanest of 44 tracked categories.
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Members span 2 federal industry classifications (NAICS).
Spend
$95.9M
Federal lobbying
$87.6M
PAC & Super PAC
$7.4M
Executive donations
$883K
Pillars
45 avg
Political Access
54
Wealth Extraction
40
Playing by the Rules
40
Ownership risk
14 flagged
75.4
/100
Trusted
sprouts.com
70.3
/100
Moderate
traderjoes.com
70.1
/100
Moderate
aldi.us
69.1
/100
Moderate
hy-vee.com
69.0
/100
Moderate
costco.com
65.5
/100
Moderate
foodlion.com
62.2
/100
Moderate
bjs.com
60.3
/100
Moderate
meijer.com
53.7
/100
Moderate
publix.com
27.9
/100
Concerning
target.com
25.0
/100
Concerning
albertsons.com
23.7
/100
Avoid
kroger.com
14.9
/100
Avoid
samsclub.com
14.9
/100
Avoid
amazon.com
6.7
/100
Avoid
walmart.com
Scores reflect disclosed federal spending only. Dark money (501(c)(4) donations) is not included. How we score →