Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 648 stores from 331 grocery stores chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Grocery Outlet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cardenas Markets and Seafood City Supermarket.

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
331
Tracked stores
648
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. Grocery Outlet and Cardenas Markets sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲3 +17.5%
2 C Cardenas Markets logo Cardenas Markets ▲1 +14.3%
3 S Seafood City Supermarket logo Seafood City Supermarket - +12.9%
4 S Smart & Final logo Smart & Final - +9.8%
5 N New India Bazaar - +4.4%
6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +4.3%
7 M Mi Rancho Supermarket ▲1 +2.6%
8 N Nugget Markets - +2.1%
9 W Woodlands Market - +1.6%
10 F FoodMaxx logo FoodMaxx ▲2 +1.5%
11 R Raley's logo Raley's - +1.3%
12 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market - +1.2%
13 M Mollie Stone's logo Mollie Stone's - -0.2%
14 L Lucky Supermarkets logo Lucky Supermarkets - -0.3%
15 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -2.5%
  • Safeway
  • Trader Joe's
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Lucky Supermarkets
  • Sprouts Farmers Market
  • Raley's
  • WinCo
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

648 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Safeway (97)
  • Trader Joe's (36)
  • Whole Foods Market (28)
  • Lucky Supermarkets (24)
  • Sprouts Farmers Market (12)
  • Raley's (10)
  • WinCo (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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