Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 2,365 stores from 1,814 grocery & convenience chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Restaurant Depot grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costco and NH Liquor & Wine Outlet.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,814
Tracked stores
2,365
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Restaurant Depot and Costco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot - +11.4%
2 C Costco logo Costco - +11.0%
3 N NH Liquor & Wine Outlet - +10.8%
4 B Big Y World Class Market logo Big Y World Class Market ▲1 +10.6%
5 A Apna Bazar ▲1 +8.0%
6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +3.4%
7 P Price Rite Marketplace logo Price Rite Marketplace ▲2 +2.8%
8 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop ▲1 +2.7%
9 C Crosby's Marketplace - +1.8%
10 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - +1.7%
11 R Roche Bros. logo Roche Bros. - +1.6%
12 A America's Food Basket - +1.5%
13 H H Mart logo H Mart - +1.4%
14 R Richdale Convenience ▲2 +1.2%
15 M McKinnon's Market & Super Butcher Shop - +1.0%

Store footprint

Store map

2,365 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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