Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in the United States

Iceflower tracks 140,271 stores from 85,579 grocery & convenience chains in the United States. Dorothy Lane Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of US Foods CHEF'STORE and QFC.

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
85,579
Tracked stores
140,271
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. Dorothy Lane Market and US Foods CHEF'STORE sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dorothy Lane Market logo Dorothy Lane Market ▲12 +19.1%
2 U US Foods CHEF'STORE logo US Foods CHEF'STORE ▲12 +18.7%
3 Q QFC logo QFC ▲7 +17.1%
4 F Foodland logo Foodland ▲17 +16.5%
5 H Harps Food Stores logo Harps Food Stores ▲14 +15.9%
6 S Super 1 Foods logo Super 1 Foods ▲12 +12.1%
7 M Market Street logo Market Street ▲9 +11.6%
8 B Broulim's logo Broulim's ▲16 +11.2%
9 N Nugget Markets ▲7 +11.2%
10 W Woodman's Food Market logo Woodman's Food Market ▲4 +10.9%
11 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company ▲8 +10.7%
12 H H-E-B logo H-E-B - +10.1%
13 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲7 +9.9%
14 T The Fresh Grocer logo The Fresh Grocer ▲5 +9.0%
15 V Vallarta Supermarkets logo Vallarta Supermarkets ▲8 +8.0%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 140,271 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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