The Pet Supermarket NOligarchy Profile
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Pet Supermarket earns a NOligarchy Score of 88.81 out of 100 — a strong mark driven by a spotless regulatory record and a near-zero political footprint. Because this is a privately held company, however, the data available to the public is thin. The score reflects what can be verified, not a full picture of how the company behaves.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
97.9
Wealth Extraction
59.1
Playing by the Rules
100.0
Score history — 23 quarters
Tier bands show where each quarter's score falls — no numeric y-axis needed. The dashed ring marks the year-over-year comparison point. Tap any quarter but the first to see its pillar breakdown.
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Political Access Grade: 97.86/100. Pet Supermarket filed no federal lobbying disclosures and reported no Political Action Committee (PAC) spending from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period). One executive donated $50 to a federal campaign, which is essentially background noise. The score is nearly perfect.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 59.36/100. This is the weakest pillar, and it is almost entirely a disclosure problem. As a private company, Pet Supermarket is not required to publish executive pay data or shareholder payout records. What little can be estimated — an industry-benchmarked pay ratio — tells a lopsided story.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No fines, no violations, no subsidies on the public record. A clean slate.
Pet Supermarket ranks 2nd out of 5 companies in the Other Miscellaneous Retailers sector, with a score of 88.81 against a sector average of 72.3. That puts Pet Supermarket well above the pack — a genuine accountability outlier among its peers — though the private-company disclosure gap means some of that advantage may simply reflect what isn’t visible rather than what isn’t happening.
The Bottom Line: A Strong Score Built Partly on Silence
Pet Supermarket’s numbers look good on the surface — no lobbying dollars, no PAC checks, no regulatory fines. But the single sharpest imbalance in this profile is the gap between what the company earns and what it chooses to reveal. With an estimated annual revenue of over $300 million, Pet Supermarket operates entirely outside the disclosure requirements that govern public companies. The one figure that does emerge — an estimated CEO-to-worker pay gap of 182 to 1 — reflects an industry benchmark rather than any verified filing, because no verified filing is required. Workers, regulators, and the public are left to take it on faith that the private ledger is fair.
No Footprint in Washington
Pet Supermarket has not knocked on a single door in Washington during the two-year tracking period. The Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) shows zero filings, zero issue areas registered, and zero lobbyists on payroll or retainer. No external lobbying firms were hired. No revolving-door hires — former government officials brought in to trade on their connections — appear anywhere in the record.
The only political footprint is a single $50 individual donation logged in Federal Election Commission (FEC) data in the fourth quarter of 2024, attributed to a Pet Supermarket executive. That is less than most people spend on a bag of dog food. For a specialty retailer operating more than 150 stores, the absence of any organized political spending is notable — particularly in a sector where pet food labeling standards, supply chain rules, and consumer protection regulations could all affect the bottom line. Pet Supermarket simply isn’t playing that game, at least not on the federal level.
An Undisclosed Pay Gap at the Top
Pet Supermarket’s CEO pay ratio is not publicly disclosed. The best available figure is 182:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. In plain English: for every dollar a typical Pet Supermarket worker takes home, the person at the top is estimated to collect $182. That is not a verified filing — it is an industry benchmark applied because the law does not require Pet Supermarket to tell anyone the real number, and that gap in the law is itself the story.
No stock buyback or dividend data is recorded for Pet Supermarket, which is expected for a privately held company — meaning no calculation can be made of how much was channeled to owners versus how much was left available for the workforce.
A Clean Record on the Public Docket
The regulatory record for Pet Supermarket is empty — and in this context, that is genuinely good news. No fines appear in the Good Jobs First violations database. No labor violations, no consumer protection penalties, no environmental citations. For a retailer with more than 150 locations selling live animals, pet food, and veterinary products, maintaining a spotless compliance record over the two-year tracking period is not trivial.
No government subsidies appear on the public record either. Pet Supermarket has neither collected public grants or tax incentives nor accumulated the kind of penalty record that regulators track. The 100/100 score here is the most straightforwardly earned number in this entire profile.