The 12 most powerful retail companies in America

To determine how powerful each company is, we factored together revenue, number of employees, press mentions, and social media influence as ranked on a scale of 1 to 100 by Klout, a site that analyzes social-media influence. You can read our full methodology here.

Walmart took the top spot on our list, and Target came in at No. 2.

In fact, many of the companies on the list fell within the retail realm, so we broke these companies out here into their own separate list.

Keep scrolling to see the most powerful retail companies in America.