Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 1,264 stores from 923 grocery & convenience chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Trader Joe's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sprouts Farmers Market and Costco.

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
923
Tracked stores
1,264
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. Trader Joe's and Sprouts Farmers Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +12.2%
2 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market - +9.1%
3 C Costco logo Costco - +5.8%
4 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market ▲1 +4.3%
5 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce ▲1 +4.3%
6 N Northgate Gonzalez Markets logo Northgate Gonzalez Markets ▲1 +3.6%
7 B Barons Market logo Barons Market ▲1 +1.6%
8 M Manolo Farmers Market ▲1 +0.8%
9 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market ▲1 +0.7%
10 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot - -0.5%
11 E El Super logo El Super ▲2 -0.8%
12 R Ralphs logo Ralphs - -1.1%
13 S Stater Bros. Markets logo Stater Bros. Markets - -2.7%
14 A Albertsons logo Albertsons - -3.1%
15 A ALDI logo ALDI - -3.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,264 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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