Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 2,420 stores from 1,839 grocery & convenience chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. NH Liquor & Wine Outlet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costco and Big Y World Class 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
1,839
Tracked stores
2,420
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. NH Liquor & Wine Outlet and Costco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 NH Liquor & Wine Outlet ▲1 +15.2%
2 Costco - +11.8%
3 Big Y World Class Market - +11.3%
4 America's Food Basket ▲3 +8.8%
5 Apna Bazar ▲2 +5.1%
6 Trader Joe's - +3.9%
7 Stop & Shop - +3.3%
8 Quick Mart - +2.4%
9 Crosby's Marketplace - +2.3%
10 H Mart - +1.8%
11 BJ's Wholesale Club ▲1 +1.7%
12 Price Rite Marketplace ▲3 +1.3%
13 Star Market ▼1 +1.0%
14 McKinnon's Market & Super Butcher Shop - +0.7%
15 Wegmans - +0.4%

Store footprint

Store map

2,420 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 244 of the 2,420 stores (10%); 1,700 of the 1,839 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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