Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

Iceflower tracks 618 stores from 442 grocery & convenience chains in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. FoodMaxx grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Grocery Outlet 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
442
Tracked stores
618
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. FoodMaxx and Grocery Outlet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F FoodMaxx logo FoodMaxx ▲2 +16.1%
2 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲2 +13.0%
3 C Costco logo Costco - +11.0%
4 S Stop N Save - +6.3%
5 A Arteaga's Food Center - +5.9%
6 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +2.4%
7 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market ▲2 +1.2%
8 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +0.4%
9 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market - -0.1%
10 C Cardenas Markets logo Cardenas Markets - -2.5%
11 Z Zanotto's logo Zanotto's - -6.2%
12 N Namaste Plaza - -6.7%
13 S Safeway logo Safeway - -8.5%
14 R Raley's logo Raley's - -9.2%
15 B Bonfare Market - -9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

618 tracked store locations in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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