Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Massachusetts

Iceflower tracks 3,632 stores from 2,798 grocery & convenience chains in Massachusetts. Patel Brothers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Portside Liquors and Market 32.

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
2,798
Tracked stores
3,632
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. Patel Brothers and Portside Liquors sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Patel Brothers logo Patel Brothers ▲5 +19.6%
2 P Portside Liquors ▲4 +19.5%
3 M Market 32 logo Market 32 ▲1 +13.7%
4 L Lipton Mart ▲8 +12.7%
5 S Sam's Food Stores logo Sam's Food Stores ▲8 +12.2%
6 S Stop N Save ▲4 +11.3%
7 H Hannaford logo Hannaford ▲1 +10.7%
8 C Costco logo Costco - +6.6%
9 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - +5.8%
10 B Big Y World Class Market logo Big Y World Class Market - +2.2%
11 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +2.2%
12 M McKinnon's Market & Super Butcher Shop ▲1 +1.8%
13 M Market Basket logo Market Basket - +1.5%
14 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop - +1.0%
15 R Roche Bros. logo Roche Bros. - -0.2%

Store footprint

Store map

3,632 tracked store locations in Massachusetts, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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