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The most significant concentration Village Super Market discloses is Wakefern Food Corporation, classified HIGH by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: Village Super Market’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
“10-K Item 1A: 'Village is the second largest member of Wakefern Food Corporation ("Wakefern"), the nation's largest retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite, Fairway and Gourmet Garage names.'”
“10-K Item 1A: 'operates a chain of 34 supermarkets in New Jersey (26), New York (6), Maryland (1) and Pennsylvania (1) under the ShopRite and Fairway banners'”
Village Super Market's concentration risk sits in two structurally linked areas. Operationally, the company is the second largest member of Wakefern Food Corporation, the cooperative that owns the ShopRite, Fairway, and Gourmet Garage banners under which Village operates — a deep dependency on a single cooperative relationship for sourcing, branding, and merchandising rather than a diversified network of independent suppliers. Geographically, the store base is heavily clustered: of 34 supermarkets, 26 are in New Jersey, with just 6 in New York and one each in Maryland and Pennsylvania — a structural concentration in a single state and region rather than a nationally diversified footprint. These two exposures reinforce one another: because Village's identity, supply chain, and pricing power are tied to the Wakefern cooperative, and because its stores are overwhelmingly located in one state, a regional economic downturn or any disruption to the Wakefern relationship would have an outsized effect relative to a more geographically or operationally diversified grocer. Both exposures are disclosed as large-share, structural features of how the business is built rather than idiosyncratic one-off dependencies, meaning they are unlikely to change quickly and should be read as part of the company's basic operating model rather than a transient risk.
For the engine’s reasoning on VLGEA’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNUT | Krispy Kreme, Inc. | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| VLGEA● | Village Super Market, Inc. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| ACI | Albertsons Companies, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GO | Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| IMKTA | Ingles Markets, Incorporated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| KR | Kroger Company (The) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.