
Petco: The Retailer That Went Public and Private Four Times
Petco ranks #79 on NRF's Top 100 Retailers 2026 with $5.77B in U.S. sales. Its real story: four public-private cycles that kept reinventing it.
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Pet-supply product data — species, size, life-stage, and ingredient attributes shoppers shop by.

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