Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 2,380 stores from 1,908 grocery & convenience chains in Connecticut. Key Food grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Whole Foods Market and Kindred Spirits & Wine.

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
1,908
Tracked stores
2,380
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. Key Food and Whole Foods Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Key Food logo Key Food ▲1 +12.4%
2 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +8.0%
3 K Kindred Spirits & Wine ▲2 +7.9%
4 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +7.5%
5 C Caraluzzi's logo Caraluzzi's ▲3 +6.7%
6 S Sam's Food Stores logo Sam's Food Stores - +6.1%
7 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop - +4.7%
8 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market - +3.9%
9 C Costco logo Costco - +3.7%
10 L LaBonne's Markets logo LaBonne's Markets - +2.0%
11 S ShopRite logo ShopRite - +1.9%
12 S Stew Leonard's - +1.3%
13 M M & R Liquors ▲1 +1.2%
14 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - -0.2%
15 G Grand Wine & Spirits logo Grand Wine & Spirits - -0.2%

Store footprint

Store map

2,380 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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