Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 2,636 stores from 1,711 grocery & convenience chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Checkout grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Trader Joe's 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
1,711
Tracked stores
2,636
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. Checkout and Trader Joe's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Checkout - +15.0%
2 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +14.9%
3 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲2 +12.7%
4 P Primespot ▲3 +9.3%
5 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market - +9.1%
6 R Ralston Discount Liquors - +9.0%
7 S Stone Cold Meats ▲3 +8.3%
8 K Keemat Grocers ▲1 +7.0%
9 K Kroger logo Kroger - +6.6%
10 O One Stop logo One Stop ▲1 +4.9%
11 G Guerrero Meat Market - +4.7%
12 E EZ Food Stop - +4.6%
13 S Super K Food Store ▲1 +4.3%
14 W WB Liquors & Wine logo WB Liquors & Wine ▲2 +4.0%
15 T Teloloapan Meat Market ▲3 +3.4%

Store footprint

Store map

2,636 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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