Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 613 stores from 521 grocery & convenience chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Price Chopper grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hannaford and Market 32.

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
521
Tracked stores
613
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. Price Chopper and Hannaford sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Price Chopper - +10.6%
2 Hannaford - +2.1%
3 Market 32 - -3.8%
4 BJ's Wholesale Club - -5.2%
5 ALDI - -5.3%
6 Beer Universe - -6.6%
7 Minogue's Beverage Center - -54.9%

Store footprint

Store map

613 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 78 of the 613 stores (13%); 500 of the 521 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 4% across New York.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Price Chopper 33
  • 2 Hannaford 23
  • 3 ALDI 9
  • 4 Market 32 7
  • 5 Beer Universe 6
  • 6 BJ's Wholesale Club 4
  • 7 Minogue's Beverage Center 3
  • 8 Aladdin Halal Market 2
  • 9 Country Farms 2
  • 10 Tops Friendly Markets 2
  • 11 Gabriel's Supermarket 2
  • 12 Yazzy's Market 2
  • 13 Trader Joe's 2
  • 14 Honest Weight Food Co-op 2
  • 15 Fred the Butcher 2
  • 16 Empire Wine 2
  • 17 The Fresh Market 2
  • 18 Carman Wine & Liquor 1
  • 19 Bargain Grocery 1
  • 20 PRIMAL: Your Local Butcher 1
  • 21 Casa Di Vino Wine and Liquor 1
  • 22 Eddy's Beverage Inc 1
  • 23 Sand Creek Liquors 1
  • 24 Hometown Wine and Liquors 1
  • 25 Engel's Acres 1
  • 26 Uptown Beverage 1
  • 27 Hayner Farm 1
  • 28 Giuseppe's Rt 2 1
  • 29 Star Liquor 1
  • 30 Avon Market 1
  • 31 Titanic Market 1
  • 32 Grafton's Town Store 1
  • 33 Sabatino's Liquor 1
  • 34 Gateway Liquor 1
  • 35 Sams Food Store 1
  • 36 Coulson's News & Deli 1
  • 37 Pine Hills Market 1
  • 38 Schoharie Valley Farms 1
  • 39 Food Circus 1
  • 40 Nuttings 1
  • 41 Spindle City Market 1
  • 42 Loudonville Wine and Spirits 1
  • 43 Rolf's Pork Store 1
  • 44 Park Wine & Liquor 1
  • 45 Jones & 50 Wine and Spirits 1
  • 46 Lucky Market 1
  • 47 Westmere Liquor Store 1
  • 48 Syron's Market 1
  • 49 Brix Wine and Liquor 1
  • 50 Delaware Grocery 1

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