Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 1,182 stores from 739 grocery & convenience chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Food 4 Less grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sprouts Farmers Market and El Super.

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
739
Tracked stores
1,182
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. Food 4 Less and Sprouts Farmers Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food 4 Less logo Food 4 Less - +13.6%
2 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market - +12.4%
3 E El Super logo El Super ▲2 +11.4%
4 B Barons Market logo Barons Market - +10.2%
5 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce - +7.5%
6 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +4.2%
7 C Costco logo Costco - +1.8%
8 R Ralphs logo Ralphs ▲1 +1.4%
9 K Keg N Bottle logo Keg N Bottle - -0.6%
10 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market - -1.1%
11 S Seafood City Supermarket logo Seafood City Supermarket - -1.5%
12 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - -2.4%
13 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -3.7%
14 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲1 -4.3%
15 A Albertsons logo Albertsons - -5.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,182 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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