Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in California

Iceflower tracks 9,245 stores from 3,914 grocery & convenience chains in California. Mother's Market & Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tokyo Central and Vallarta Supermarkets.

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
3,914
Tracked stores
9,245
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. Mother's Market & Kitchen and Tokyo Central sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mother's Market & Kitchen logo Mother's Market & Kitchen - +19.6%
2 T Tokyo Central logo Tokyo Central ▲4 +19.6%
3 V Vallarta Supermarkets logo Vallarta Supermarkets ▲3 +17.8%
4 B Big Saver Foods ▲3 +17.1%
5 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲1 +16.1%
6 I Island Pacific Seafood Market logo Island Pacific Seafood Market ▲2 +15.8%
7 S Super A Foods logo Super A Foods ▲5 +15.6%
8 S SF Supermarket logo SF Supermarket ▲3 +13.6%
9 Z Zion Market logo Zion Market ▲3 +13.6%
10 V Village Market ▲4 +11.2%
11 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce ▲4 +10.9%
12 R Ray's Food Place logo Ray's Food Place ▲1 +9.9%
13 B Bi-Rite Market logo Bi-Rite Market ▲2 +9.7%
14 B Barons Market logo Barons Market ▲2 +9.7%
15 S Superior Grocers logo Superior Grocers ▲1 +9.3%

Store footprint

Store map

9,245 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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