The Chain Store Sales Report

What each column means

Sales per store

Average annual sales of one U.S. location. For public companies, U.S. retail revenue divided by U.S. store count. For franchised brands, the Average Unit Volume disclosed in Item 19 of the current Franchise Disclosure Document.

Avg store size

Typical building square footage of one U.S. store. Building only. Not lot size, not the fuel canopy at a convenience store, not seat count at a restaurant.

Sales per sq ft

Sales per store divided by average store size. It compares a small high-volume drive-thru against a big box on productivity rather than raw volume.

Locations

Current U.S. store count.

Total U.S. sales

Sales per store multiplied by locations.

Where the figures come from

Sales figures are researched fresh each edition from the most recent 10-K or annual report, Franchise Disclosure Document Item 19, and retail and restaurant trade press including Technomic, QSR Magazine, Restaurant Business, Supermarket News, and Winsight Grocery. Store sizes follow a source hierarchy, most authoritative first: company disclosure in a 10-K, annual report, or investor deck; Franchise Disclosure Document Item 7 and franchisee site criteria; the brand’s own real estate or site criteria page; trade press; and finally a category benchmark. Where a brand publishes only a range, the midpoint is used. Where a brand runs several formats, the figure is weighted by unit count across them. A disclosed fleet average is always preferred over a new-build prototype size, because most brands are shrinking the box and publicize the smaller version.

How confident we are in each store size

Every store size carries a confidence rating. Of the 202 brands on this list, 35 come from a company disclosure or a Franchise Disclosure Document, 110 from reputable trade press, a published range midpoint, or an official site criteria page, and 57 from a category benchmark or heavy inference. Hover or tap any store size figure to see its confidence rating and, where the brand publishes one, its typical range. Estimates are included rather than left blank so every brand can be sorted and filtered, and the confidence rating is what separates a disclosed figure from an industry estimate.

Worth knowing before you use these

• Some retailers operate stores in a range of formats and sizes. Sales per store reflects total company sales divided by store count, so a single figure can blend very different building types. Walmart is the clearest example, averaging supercenters, discount stores, and neighborhood markets together.
• For franchised and licensed brands, sales per store is per operating store. Where the company-operated and licensed mix is uneven, multiplying by total locations approximates system sales rather than stating it exactly.
• Convenience store sales include fuel unless noted, which lifts sales per store and depresses sales per square foot against other categories.
• Grocery banners owned by a parent company, such as Vons and Pavilions under Albertsons or Food 4 Less under Kroger, use banner-level estimates derived from parent reporting.
• Where the most recent hard figure predated FY2024, it was carried forward using the brand’s own sales trend or roughly 3 to 4 percent per year.
• Brands operating through bankruptcy are kept in the list and flagged. Brands that have fully closed are removed.

Chain Store Sales Report, 2026 Edition. This tool is informational only and is not investment, legal, or financial advice. Figures are directional estimates and should not be used as underwriting inputs without independent verification.