Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in the United States

Iceflower tracks 101,728 stores from 43,069 grocery & convenience chains in the United States. Grocery Outlet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Restaurant Depot and Tony's Fresh Market.

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
43,069
Tracked stores
101,728
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. Grocery Outlet and Restaurant Depot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲5 +19.3%
2 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot ▲1 +19.2%
3 T Tony's Fresh Market logo Tony's Fresh Market ▲16 +18.9%
4 A Allsup's logo Allsup's ▲13 +17.1%
5 M MOM's Organic Market logo MOM's Organic Market ▲13 +17.0%
6 F Fresh World ▲12 +16.3%
7 L Lotte Plaza Market logo Lotte Plaza Market ▲13 +15.6%
8 P Pete's Market logo Pete's Market ▲11 +15.3%
9 F Food 4 Less logo Food 4 Less ▲11 +14.4%
10 R Refuel logo Refuel ▲11 +14.2%
11 P Pavilions logo Pavilions ▲12 +14.1%
12 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲5 +13.7%
13 S Stater Bros. Markets logo Stater Bros. Markets ▲5 +13.4%
14 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods ▲10 +13.3%
15 H H-E-B logo H-E-B ▲3 +13.1%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 101,728 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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