Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Anchorage, AK

Iceflower tracks 122 stores from 71 grocery & convenience chains in Anchorage, AK. Costco grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Brown Jug and Carrs.

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
71
Tracked stores
122
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. Costco and Brown Jug sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Costco - +2.0%
2 Brown Jug - +0.8%
3 Carrs - -2.1%
4 Fred Meyer - -2.8%
5 Three Bears Alaska - -3.6%
  • Supermarkets
  • Liquor Store
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Other grocery stores
  • Food & Beverage Store
  • Butcher Shop
  • Military Commissaries & Exchanges
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

122 tracked store locations in Anchorage, AK, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 53 of the 122 stores (43%); 63 of the 71 tracked chains have a single store here. 27% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 21% across Alaska.

  • Supermarkets (45)
  • Liquor Store (33)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (8)
  • Other grocery stores (7)
  • Food & Beverage Store (6)
  • Butcher Shop (5)
  • Military Commissaries & Exchanges (4)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Brown Jug 20
  • 2 Fred Meyer 11
  • 3 Carrs 11
  • 4 Three Bears Alaska 8
  • 5 Costco 3
  • 6 Anchorage Wine House 2
  • 7 Safeway 2
  • 8 Bosco's 2
  • 9 Townsite Liquor 1
  • 10 Arctic Brewing Supply 1
  • 11 Sutton General Store and Jonesville Cafe and Java 1
  • 12 Fishhook Food Mart 1
  • 13 Dominican Grocery 1
  • 14 Oil & Vinegar 1
  • 15 The Spice & Tea Exchange 1
  • 16 Fromagio's Artisan Cheese 1
  • 17 Miller's Market 1
  • 18 Knik Kountry Liquor 1
  • 19 Lucky 7 Mart 1
  • 20 Blue Market AK 1
  • 21 Y2K Liquors 1
  • 22 Alaska Water Technologies 1
  • 23 La Villa Market 1
  • 24 Exchange 1
  • 25 Sockeye Sundry 1
  • 26 Mat Valley Meats 1
  • 27 Raw Market Company 1
  • 28 Bill's Distributing 1
  • 29 Army & Air Force Exchange Service 1
  • 30 Butcher Block No 9 1
  • 31 Anchorage Greens 1
  • 32 Pyrah's Pioneer Peak Farm 1
  • 33 Sun Circle Farm 1
  • 34 Arctic Harvest Deliveries 1
  • 35 AK Wine Grotto 1
  • 36 Lucky Grocery & Deli 1
  • 37 Oriental Shopping Center 1
  • 38 New Asian Market/Deli 1
  • 39 Ri-Generation Nutrition 1
  • 40 Alaska International Market 1
  • 41 AAFES Shoppette 1
  • 42 AAFES 1
  • 43 Natural Pantry 1
  • 44 New Sagaya Midtown Market 1
  • 45 Mekong Market 1
  • 46 Party Time Liquor 1
  • 47 Cubby's Marketplace 1
  • 48 Gold Rush Liquor 1
  • 49 Lucky Market 1
  • 50 Sourdough Mercantile 1

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