Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in California

Iceflower tracks 9,319 stores from 3,959 grocery & convenience chains in California. Tokyo Central grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Big Saver Foods and Sprouts Farmers 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
3,959
Tracked stores
9,319
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. Tokyo Central and Big Saver Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tokyo Central logo Tokyo Central ▲4 +19.8%
2 B Big Saver Foods ▲3 +17.0%
3 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market ▲1 +16.1%
4 I Island Pacific Seafood Market logo Island Pacific Seafood Market ▲2 +16.0%
5 S Super A Foods logo Super A Foods ▲5 +14.9%
6 V Village Market ▲4 +13.6%
7 Z Zion Market logo Zion Market ▲4 +13.4%
8 S SF Supermarket logo SF Supermarket ▲3 +13.0%
9 B Bi-Rite Market logo Bi-Rite Market ▲2 +11.1%
10 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce ▲4 +10.9%
11 S Superior Grocers logo Superior Grocers ▲2 +10.0%
12 R Ray's Food Place logo Ray's Food Place ▲1 +9.8%
13 B Barons Market logo Barons Market ▲2 +9.7%
14 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's ▲2 +8.5%
15 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot ▲1 +7.4%

Store footprint

Store map

9,319 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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