Staff Reporter
Major Group 54: Food Stores

This major group includes retail stores primarily engaged in selling food for home preparation and consumption. Establishments primarily engaged in selling prepared foods and drinks for consumption on the premises are classified in Major Group 58, and stores primarily engaged in selling packaged beers and liquors are classified in Industry 5921.

• Industry Group 541: Grocery Stores
  
  • 5411 Grocery Stores
    Stores, commonly known as supermarkets, food stores, and grocery stores, primarily engaged in the retail sale of all sorts of canned foods and dry goods, such as tea, coffee, spices, sugar, and flour; fresh fruits and vegetables; and fresh and prepared meats, fish, and poultry.
    
    • Convenience food stores-retail
    • Food markets-retail
    • Frozen food and freezer plans, except meat-retail
    • Grocery stores, with or without fresh meat-retail
    • Supermarkets, grocery-retail
      

• Industry Group 542: Meat And Fish (seafood) Markets, Including
  
  • 5421 Meat And Fish (seafood) Markets, Including Freezer Provisioners
    Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of fresh, frozen, or cured meats, fish, shellfish, and other seafoods. This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale, on a bulk basis, of meat for freezer storage and in providing home freezer plans. Meat markets may butcher animals on their own account, or they may buy from others. Food locker plants primarily engaged in renting locker space for the storage of food products for individual households are classified in Industry 4222. Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of poultry are classified in Industry 5499.
    
    • Fish markets-retail
    • Freezer food plans, meat-retail
    • Freezer provisioners, meat-retail
    • Frozen food and freezer plans, meat-retail
    • Meat markets-retail
    • Seafood markets-retail

• Industry Group 543: Fruit And Vegetable Markets
  
  • 5431 Fruit And Vegetable Markets
    Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of fresh fruits and vegetables. They are frequently found in public or municipal markets or as roadside stands. However, establishments which grow fruits and vegetables and sell them at roadside stands are classified in Agriculture, Major Group 01.
    
    • Fruit markets and stands-retail
    • Produce markets and stands-retail
    • Vegetable markets and stands-retail

• Industry Group 544: Candy, Nut, And Confectionery Stores
  
  • 5441 Candy, Nut, And Confectionery Stores
    Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of candy, nuts, popcorn, and other confections.
    
    • Candy stores-retail
    • Confectionery produced for direct sale on the premises-retail
    • Confectionery stores-retail
    • Nut stores-retail
    • Popcorn stands-retail

• Industry Group 545: Dairy Products Stores
  
  • 5451 Dairy Products Stores
    Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of packaged dairy products to over-the-counter customers. Ice cream and frozen custard stands are classified in Industry 5812, and establishments selling ice cream and similar products from trucks or wagons are classified in Industry 5963. Establishments primarily engaged in processing and distributing milk and cream are classified in Manufacturing, Industry Group 202.
    
    • Butter and other dairy product stores-retail
    • Cheese stores-retail
    • Dairy products stores-retail
    • Ice cream (packaged) stores-retail
    • Milk and other dairy products stores-retail

• Industry Group 546: Retail Bakeries
  
  • 5461 Retail Bakeries
    Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of bakery products. The products may be purchased from others or made on the premises. Establishments manufacturing bakery products for the trade are classified in Manufacturing, Industry Group 205, and those purchasing bakery products and selling house-to-house are classified in Industry 5963.
    
    • Bagel stores-retail
    • Bakeries-retail
    • Cookie stores-retail
    • Doughnut shops-retail
    • Pretzel stores and stands-retail

• Industry Group 549: Miscellaneous Food Stores
  
  • 5499 Miscellaneous Food Stores
    Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of specialized foods, not elsewhere classified, such as eggs, poultry, health foods, spices, herbs, coffee, and tea. The poultry stores may sell live poultry, slaughter and clean poultry for their own account, and sell dressed fowls, or sell fowls cleaned and dressed by others.
    
    • Coffee stores-retail
    • Dietetic food stores-retail
    • Egg dealers-retail
    • Health food stores-retail
    • Poultry dealers-retail
    • Spice and herb stores-retail
    • Tea stores-retail
    • Vitamin food stores-retail
    • Water, mineral-retail