Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 511 stores from 203 grocery stores chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. H Mart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Crosby's Marketplace and Apna Bazar.

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
203
Tracked stores
511
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. H Mart and Crosby's Marketplace sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H H Mart logo H Mart - +15.2%
2 C Crosby's Marketplace - +6.9%
3 A Apna Bazar ▲1 +4.2%
4 B Big Y World Class Market logo Big Y World Class Market - +2.9%
5 M Market Basket logo Market Basket - +2.7%
6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +1.0%
7 S Shaw's logo Shaw's - +0.1%
8 W Wegmans logo Wegmans - +0.1%
9 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -1.1%
10 H Hannaford logo Hannaford - -1.3%
11 M McKinnon's Market & Super Butcher Shop - -1.7%
12 S Star Market logo Star Market - -3.8%
13 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop - -3.8%
14 R Roche Bros. logo Roche Bros. - -4.7%
15 A ALDI logo ALDI - -6.9%
  • Market Basket
  • Stop & Shop
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Shaw's
  • Trader Joe's
  • Hannaford
  • Roche Bros.
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

511 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Market Basket (44)
  • Stop & Shop (69)
  • Whole Foods Market (30)
  • Shaw's (51)
  • Trader Joe's (22)
  • Hannaford (20)
  • Roche Bros. (16)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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