Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

Iceflower tracks 548 stores from 397 grocery & convenience chains in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. Sam's Club grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Corner Store and Tops Friendly Markets.

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
397
Tracked stores
548
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. Sam's Club and The Corner Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sam's Club ▲1 +5.6%
2 The Corner Store - +3.1%
3 Tops Friendly Markets - +1.4%
4 Wegmans - +1.2%
5 BJ's Wholesale Club ▼1 -0.8%
6 Price Rite Marketplace - -5.4%
7 Dash's Market - -6.5%
8 Consumer's Beverages - -7.2%
9 ALDI - -8.5%
10 Federal Meats - -9.7%
11 Save A Lot - -13.8%

Store footprint

Store map

548 tracked store locations in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 118 of the 548 stores (22%); 370 of the 397 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are discount grocers, against 3% across New York.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Tops Friendly Markets 51
  • 2 Save A Lot 19
  • 3 Consumer's Beverages 19
  • 4 ALDI 18
  • 5 Wegmans 11
  • 6 The Corner Store 7
  • 7 Federal Meats 6
  • 8 Dash's Market 4
  • 9 Price Rite Marketplace 4
  • 10 BJ's Wholesale Club 4
  • 11 Sam's Club 3
  • 12 Prima Oliva 2
  • 13 Farm Fresh 2
  • 14 Corner Market 2
  • 15 Fattey Beer Co 2
  • 16 Matty's 2
  • 17 Farmers & Artisans 2
  • 18 Food Plus 2
  • 19 University Convenience 2
  • 20 Braymiller Market 2
  • 21 Buffalo Fresh 2
  • 22 95 Nutrition 2
  • 23 Feel-Rite Fresh Market 2
  • 24 Premier Wine & Spirits 2
  • 25 Lexington Co-op 2
  • 26 The Market in the Square 2
  • 27 Eastside Liquor 1
  • 28 T & R Corner Store 1
  • 29 Third Street Liquors 1
  • 30 Big Pasha 1
  • 31 Oasis Wine Liquor and Hard Cider 1
  • 32 Nut Tos Peanut & Popcorn Supl Co Inc 1
  • 33 Wedge Discount Liquor Store 1
  • 34 Village Liquor 1
  • 35 Hoover's Dairy 1
  • 36 Lake Shore Liquor 1
  • 37 Clinton Street Mini-Mart 1
  • 38 West Side Liquor & Wine 1
  • 39 McKinley Wine and Spirits 1
  • 40 Top Shelf Liquor 1
  • 41 Deveaux Mini Mart 1
  • 42 Golden Farm Market 1
  • 43 The Blueberry Treehouse Farm 1
  • 44 Southgate Liquors 1
  • 45 Sam's Food Market 1
  • 46 Thorpes Organic Family Farm 1
  • 47 Double Apple Foods 1
  • 48 Hoelscher Meats 1
  • 49 Camillo's Sloan Super Market 1
  • 50 Elmwood Market 1

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