Store Recalls Report Finds Walmart Named in 81 Official U.S. Recalls in 2026, More Than Any Other Physical Retailer

Store Recalls counted the stores named in 826 FDA, USDA and CPSC notices. Target and Costco follow; Amazon appears in 336, mostly as an online seller in CPSC notices.

WANGEN, Germany, Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Store Recalls, a free website that sorts official U.S. recalls by the store named in each notice, found that Walmart was named in 81 recalls between January 1 and November 10, 2026, more than any other physical retailer. Target followed with 25 notices and Costco with 19, according to the Store Recalls retailer recall report.

The report counts every store mentioned in 826 recalls published by the Food and Drug Administration, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Consumer Product Safety Commission; 431 of those notices name at least one retailer.

Amazon was named in 336 notices, 306 of them CPSC recalls. In most of these, the notice says the product was sold online on Amazon.com, often by third-party sellers.

Food and pet food made up 264 of the 826 recalls. Undeclared allergens were the most common reason (84), followed by Salmonella (52) and Listeria (26). 35 recalls named two or more chains at once, among them murphy beds, dressers and a cheese bread sold at four grocery chains.

The report counts a recall for a store only when the official text names the store or one of its store brands, such as Kirkland Signature for Costco or Great Value for Walmart, or when the retailer posts the recall on its own recall page. A store not being named does not mean a product was not sold there. Larger chains sell more products and appear in more notices; the ranking is not a safety rating.

"When a recall hits the news, shoppers ask one question first: was it sold at my store? The official notices often answer it, but you have to read every one to find out," said Alexandra Looks, Managing Director of Looks Einkaufs & Verwaltungs GmbH, which runs Store Recalls. "We only count a store when the notice names it, and we publish the sentence that does. A high count means a chain sells a lot, not that it is unsafe."

The full data set, one row per recall with the stores named and how each was matched, is free to download under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

About Store Recalls
Store Recalls lists official U.S. recalls by the store named in each notice, from the FDA, USDA FSIS, CPSC and retailer recall pages, and quotes the sentence that names the store. It is operated by Looks Einkaufs & Verwaltungs GmbH, Wangen im Allgäu, Germany, and is not affiliated with any retailer or government agency.

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