Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Beverage Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 4,118 stores from 3,798 food & beverage store chains in the United States. Purified Water To Go grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Mekong Market and The Water Store.

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
3,798
Tracked stores
4,118
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & beverage store 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. Purified Water To Go and Mekong Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Purified Water To Go - +19.0%
2 M Mekong Market ▲1 +13.7%
3 T The Water Store - +12.7%
4 H Hill's Quality Seafood Market ▲1 +7.6%
5 W Western Edge Seafood Outlet ▲2 +3.2%
6 J Jackie's Seafood Market ▲2 +2.0%
7 O Ocean Fish Market ▲1 +0.6%
8 S Seaview Crab Company ▲1 -1.1%
9 G Grandpa's CheeseBarn logo Grandpa's CheeseBarn - -1.9%
10 S S. Clyde Weaver ▲1 -2.0%
11 C Capital Seafood Market - -4.2%
12 S Simply Seafood ▲2 -6.3%
13 L Lancaster Cupcake logo Lancaster Cupcake - -6.5%
14 W Wise Guys Discount Liquors ▲1 -7.0%
15 H Hill's Liquor - -11.6%
  • Buffalo Trace Distillery
  • Ole Smoky Distillery
  • Lee Lee International Supermarkets
  • Grandpa's CheeseBarn
  • La Hacienda Brands, Inc.
  • Safe Harbor Seafood Market
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,118 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Buffalo Trace Distillery (1)
  • Ole Smoky Distillery (2)
  • Lee Lee International Supermarkets (2)
  • Grandpa's CheeseBarn (3)
  • La Hacienda Brands, Inc. (1)
  • Safe Harbor Seafood Market (1)
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T The Water Store 15
  • 2 P Purified Water To Go 14
  • 3 T The Creamery 10
  • 4 S Seaview Crab Company 5
  • 5 H Hill's Quality Seafood Market 4
  • 6 S Simply Seafood 4
  • 7 L Lancaster Cupcake logo Lancaster Cupcake 4
  • 8 J Jackie's Seafood Market 4
  • 9 H Honolulu Cookie Company 4
  • 10 M Mekong Market 4
  • 11 W Western Edge Seafood Outlet 4
  • 12 S S. Clyde Weaver 3
  • 13 T The Citadel 3
  • 14 G Gwenie's Pastries 3
  • 15 H Hill's Liquor 3
  • 16 W Wise Guys Discount Liquors 3
  • 17 B Beer Depot 3
  • 18 O Ocean Fish Market 3
  • 19 C Capital Seafood Market 3
  • 20 G Grandpa's CheeseBarn logo Grandpa's CheeseBarn 3
  • 21 W Wagshal’s logo Wagshal’s 3
  • 22 L Lam's Seafood Market 2
  • 23 E Eugene Platts Seafood logo Eugene Platts Seafood 2
  • 24 S Saltwater Markets 2
  • 25 O Ole Smoky Distillery logo Ole Smoky Distillery 2
  • 26 H Hard Truth 2
  • 27 W Woods Seafood 2
  • 28 W West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe 2
  • 29 T Tennessee Hills Distillery 2
  • 30 S Shady Lady Liquor 2
  • 31 S Sunrise Springs Water Co. 2
  • 32 R Ranch Foods Direct logo Ranch Foods Direct 2
  • 33 E Eastern Kille Distillery 2
  • 34 C Copper Fox Distillery 2
  • 35 C Cakes Plus 2
  • 36 L Lee Lee International Supermarkets logo Lee Lee International Supermarkets 2
  • 37 S Southern Roots Smokehouse 2
  • 38 A AmeriStop logo AmeriStop 2
  • 39 L Luminary Distilling 2
  • 40 W Weldon Mills Distillery logo Weldon Mills Distillery 2
  • 41 B Billy's Seafood 2
  • 42 L Lita's Treats 2
  • 43 T The City 2
  • 44 N Neopol Savory Smokery logo Neopol Savory Smokery 2
  • 45 P PJ Liquor 2
  • 46 B Bluebird Distilling 2
  • 47 K Kaminsky's Dessert Cafe logo Kaminsky's Dessert Cafe 2
  • 48 A Alexander Produce 2
  • 49 W Wild Ocean Market 1
  • 50 S Sander Processing 1

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