Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in California

Iceflower tracks 14,537 stores from 9,205 grocery & convenience chains in California. Bristol Farms grew fastest over the last year, ahead of New Leaf Community Markets and Samco Food Store.

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
9,205
Tracked stores
14,537
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. Bristol Farms and New Leaf Community Markets sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bristol Farms ▲4 +17.7%
2 N New Leaf Community Markets logo New Leaf Community Markets ▲3 +16.3%
3 S Samco Food Store ▲4 +13.3%
4 N Nugget Markets ▲2 +10.7%
5 L La Superior Mercados ▲3 +10.5%
6 B Bi-Rite Market logo Bi-Rite Market ▲4 +10.4%
7 H Holiday Market logo Holiday Market - +10.3%
8 E Erewhon logo Erewhon ▲3 +10.1%
9 M Marine Corps Exchange logo Marine Corps Exchange ▲2 +7.9%
10 1 168 Market ▲1 +7.7%
11 V Vallarta Supermarkets logo Vallarta Supermarkets ▲1 +7.5%
12 T Tokyo Central logo Tokyo Central ▲3 +7.3%
13 P Pavilions logo Pavilions ▲3 +6.7%
14 C Costco logo Costco - +6.5%
15 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲4 +5.3%

Store footprint

Store map

14,537 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

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