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Brand-loyal customers can seriously bolster a grocery chain's sales.
But which grocers inspire the most loyalty from shoppers?
A report from marketing platform inMarket revealed that Fry's Food & Drug Stores enjoy the most frequent monthly visits from returning customers.
What grocery chains inspire the most loyalty from customers?
Advertising platform inMarket decided to find out in its 2018 grocery loyalty report, which Business Insider was able to exclusively review.
The report measured the average frequency that returning customers visited each chain on a monthly basis. In order to generate this report, inMarket sifted through anonymous location data from 50 million grocery customers. Only chains with at least 50 stores were analyzed.
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Here's a look at some chains that had no problems getting shoppers to come back again and again:
25. Big Y Foods
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.54
Store count : 68
24. Jewel-Osco
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.56
Store count : 182
23. Giant Food Stores
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.57
Store count : 142
22. Wegmans Food Markets
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.59
Store count : 95
21. Schnucks
Paul Sableman/Flickr
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.6
Store count : 79
20. WinCo Foods
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.68
Store count : 122
19. King Soopers
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.69
Store count : 119
18. Dillons Supermarkets
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.71
Store count : 63
17. Winn Dixie
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.74
Store count : 446
16. Whole Foods Market
Business Insider/Hayley Peterson
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.77
Store count : Over 490
15. Key Food
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.85
Store count : 194
14. ShopRite
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.88
Store count : 255
13. Albertsons
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.89
Store count : 430
12. Stop & Shop
Business Insider/Jessica Tyler
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.9
Store count : 394
11. Vons
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 1.95
Store count : 197
10. Food Lion
Virginia Retail/Flickr
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.03
Store count : 976
9. Safeway
Aranami/Flickr
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.12
Store count : 882
8. Kroger
Hollis Johnson
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.17
Store count : 1,279
7. Harris Teeter
FoodBankCENC.org/Flickr
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.2
Store count : 240
6. H-E-B
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.22
Store count : 247
5. Smith's Food & Drug Stores
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.23
Store count : 142
4. Publix Super Market
Chelsea Greenwood/Business Insider
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.25
Store count : 1,200
3. Ralphs
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.26
Store count : 186
2. Giant Eagle
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.3
Store count : 316
1. Fry's Food & Drug Stores
Yelp
Frequency of returning customers' visits per month : 2.43
Store count : 119
