Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 4,934 stores from 1,723 grocery stores chains in California. Vallarta Supermarkets grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Big Saver Foods and Sprouts Farmers Market.

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
1,723
Tracked stores
4,934
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. Vallarta Supermarkets and Big Saver Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V Vallarta Supermarkets logo Vallarta Supermarkets ▲3 +18.6%
2 B Big Saver Foods ▲3 +17.9%
3 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲1 +16.9%
4 I Island Pacific Seafood Market logo Island Pacific Seafood Market ▲2 +16.5%
5 S Super A Foods logo Super A Foods ▲4 +16.3%
6 S SF Supermarket logo SF Supermarket ▲2 +14.3%
7 Z Zion Market logo Zion Market ▲3 +14.3%
8 V Village Market ▲3 +11.9%
9 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce ▲3 +11.6%
10 F Food Mart ▲2 +11.3%
11 R Ray's Food Place logo Ray's Food Place ▲1 +10.6%
12 B Bi-Rite Market logo Bi-Rite Market ▲1 +10.4%
13 B Barons Market logo Barons Market ▲1 +10.4%
14 S Superior Grocers logo Superior Grocers ▲1 +10.0%
15 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲1 +9.1%
  • Vons
  • Trader Joe's
  • Stater Bros. Markets
  • Albertsons
  • Ralphs
  • Safeway
  • Sprouts Farmers Market
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,934 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Vons (184)
  • Trader Joe's (211)
  • Stater Bros. Markets (179)
  • Albertsons (137)
  • Ralphs (201)
  • Safeway (246)
  • Sprouts Farmers Market (139)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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