Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 1,218 stores from 604 grocery & convenience chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. H Mart grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Restaurant Depot and Crosby's Marketplace.

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
604
Tracked stores
1,218
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. H Mart and Restaurant Depot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H H Mart logo H Mart - +13.0%
2 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot - +10.6%
3 C Crosby's Marketplace - +5.5%
4 C Cumberland Farms logo Cumberland Farms - +4.5%
5 R Richdale ▲2 +3.0%
6 K Kappy's Fine Wine & Spirits logo Kappy's Fine Wine & Spirits ▲2 +2.8%
7 A Apna Bazar ▲2 +1.8%
8 M Market Basket logo Market Basket - +1.0%
9 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - -0.1%
10 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - -0.7%
11 B Big Y World Class Market logo Big Y World Class Market - -0.8%
12 W Wegmans logo Wegmans - -1.5%
13 S Shaw's logo Shaw's - -1.6%
14 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -3.1%
15 H Hannaford logo Hannaford - -3.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,218 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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