Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail

Warehouse clubs, big-box discount retailers and drug store chains that sell a broad mix of staples merchandise, food and household goods together, rather than a grocery-focused assortment. This is the smaller of this subcategory's two retail groups, reserved for the warehouse-club and general-merchandise staples retailers the GICS scheme keeps apart from ordinary supermarket and grocery chains, which are gathered instead under the separate Food Retail and Distribution group below.