National Retail Federation (NRF)

The dog days of Congress are in full swing and with just 124 days (as of July 2) until the midterm elections, Capitol Hill might be running short on time, but not on priorities. NRF is focused on key policy issues including organized retail crime, credit card swipe fees, immigration, tariffs and more. The legislative calendar continues to shrink as lawmakers juggle campaign pressures, appropriations deadlines and a growing list of unresolved policy issues.

The Top 100 Retailers are ranked by past 52/53-week annual retail sales. In almost all instances, sales used to rank companies are for retail activity in the United States only; footnotes are provided when this is not the case. To arrive at U.S. retail sales figures, a variety of estimation techniques are applied based on publicly disclosed information. For this reason, the figures presented do not always match the companies’ official public filing reports.

For immediate release July 1, 2026 "Despite significant economic challenges over the past year, this year’s Top 100 Retailers list highlights a resilient group of companies." WASHINGTON – The National Retail Federation today released its annual list of the Top 100 Retailers, compiled by Kantar. The 2026 Top 100 Retailers ranks the industry’s largest companies according to 2025 U.S. retail sales.

Key trends from NRF’s annual analysis of the top U.S. retailers by sales performance July 1, 2026 Stop if you’ve heard this one: Walmart leads the NRF Top 100 for 2026, followed by Amazon. There’s a reason that may seem familiar; the top two have been unchanged since 2019. This year, however, brings even more stability.

Enterprise risk leaders are being asked to look beyond traditional loss prevention and take a broader, more strategic role in managing risk across the enterprise. From shifting mindsets and lean loss prevention teams to retail fraud tactics and artificial intelligence, enterprise security risk management leaders are facing a new world.

Aimée Lapic, CEO, Hanna Andersson Hanna Andersson has spent decades building a reputation for quality children's apparel that families trust and pass down from generation to generation. Aimée Lapic, CEO of Hanna Andersson, joins Retail Gets Real to discuss how the company continues to grow while staying true to its mission of championing childhood.

As the C-suite takes a broader view of security risk, loss prevention and asset protection leaders are being challenged to expand their focus beyond shrink — and perhaps rethink how they see themselves.

On its face, the question for the EssilorLuxottica team was simple enough: How do we create a safe and enjoyable working environment? The answers were unexpected — but as the layers continued to peel back, so was the real problem to be solved. Identifying the challenge It was November 2024, and the team was taking part in a design thinking workshop facilitated by CONTROLTEK. The issue of incident reports came up when considering inefficiencies.

When Paul Halliday started spreading the word that the Maryland Office of the Attorney General was looking into organized retail crime cases, he suddenly found himself with “more business than we could ever dream to do.” Organized retail crime is on the rise. Join us and tell Congress to act now. Law enforcement simply didn’t have the capacity to handle such cases. It was time for something different.

NRF’s back-to-school notebook: One-third of shoppers have begun browsing and buying June 25, 2026 July 21, 2026 | 1 p.m. ET Join NRF for a deep dive into the latest consumer data on back-to-school spending, shopping behavior and family priorities. Register now. Students may feel as though they have only just put their pencils down, but families are already preparing for the next school year.