Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Rhode Island

Iceflower tracks 576 stores from 489 grocery & convenience chains in Rhode Island. Sam's Food Stores grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Stop & Shop and BJ's Wholesale Club.

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
489
Tracked stores
576
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. Sam's Food Stores and Stop & Shop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sam's Food Stores logo Sam's Food Stores ▲1 +13.4%
2 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop - +7.5%
3 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - 0.0%
4 S Shaw's logo Shaw's - -0.6%
5 A America's Food Basket - -2.6%
6 T Tom's Market - -2.8%
7 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -3.7%
8 L Lil' General Store - -8.9%
9 A ALDI logo ALDI - -9.0%
10 D Dave's Fresh Marketplace logo Dave's Fresh Marketplace - -11.1%
11 B Brigido's Fresh Market - -12.6%
12 P Price Rite Marketplace logo Price Rite Marketplace - -14.2%
13 S Seasons Corner Market ▼1 -15.7%

Store footprint

Store map

576 tracked store locations in Rhode Island, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop 31
  • 2 S Shaw's logo Shaw's 8
  • 3 D Dave's Fresh Marketplace logo Dave's Fresh Marketplace 8
  • 4 A ALDI logo ALDI 8
  • 5 P Price Rite Marketplace logo Price Rite Marketplace 5
  • 6 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club 5
  • 7 L Lil' General Store 4
  • 8 A America's Food Basket 3
  • 9 S Shop N Go 3
  • 10 S Seasons Corner Market 3
  • 11 S Sam's Food Stores logo Sam's Food Stores 3
  • 12 T Tom's Market 3
  • 13 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 3
  • 14 B Brigido's Fresh Market 3
  • 15 M McQuade's Marketplace logo McQuade's Marketplace 2
  • 16 O Ocean State Liquors 2
  • 17 D Dave's Marketplace logo Dave's Marketplace 2
  • 18 S Shore's Fresh Food Market logo Shore's Fresh Food Market 2
  • 19 M Market Basket logo Market Basket 2
  • 20 B Bestway 2
  • 21 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 2
  • 22 C Clements' Marketplace logo Clements' Marketplace 2
  • 23 R Roch's Fresh Foods 2
  • 24 S Seabra Foods logo Seabra Foods 2
  • 25 B Bellevue Wine & Spirits 1
  • 26 T Tony's Colonial Food 1
  • 27 A Alpine Wine & Spirits 1
  • 28 G Grapes and Grains 1
  • 29 S Stonebridge Liquors 1
  • 30 B Baffoni's Poultry Farm 1
  • 31 R Red Bird Liquor Store 1
  • 32 W Wicked Tulips Flower Farm 1
  • 33 T Thorpe's Wine & Spirits 1
  • 34 P Park Square Wine & Spirits 1
  • 35 G Greenhouse 1
  • 36 E Express Gas and Food Mart 1
  • 37 T The Corner Store 1
  • 38 W Wilbur's General Store 1
  • 39 A Airport Liquors 1
  • 40 F Frenchtown Liquors 1
  • 41 W Washington Hill Liquors 1
  • 42 E East Side Wine & Spirits 1
  • 43 N Newport NS Commissary 1
  • 44 W Westbay Wine & Spirits 1
  • 45 N Nikki's Liquor 1
  • 46 H House of Liquors 1
  • 47 S Smithfield Liquor Mart 1
  • 48 A A to Z Liquors 1
  • 49 V Vicente's Supermarket 1
  • 50 B Broadway Express 1

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