Trends · data through September 2026

Liquor Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 3,648 stores from 2,891 liquor store chains in California. Happy's Liquor grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Red Carpet Liquor and Super Liquor.

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
2,891
Tracked stores
3,648
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked liquor store 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. Happy's Liquor and Red Carpet Liquor sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Happy's Liquor ▲6 +16.9%
2 Red Carpet Liquor ▲2 +16.7%
3 Super Liquor ▲8 +16.7%
4 ABC Liquor Store ▲6 +16.2%
5 Harbor Market ▲5 +15.5%
6 Tip Top Liquor ▲5 +14.9%
7 Mikes Market and Liquor ▲3 +14.6%
8 Marina Liquor & Deli ▲3 +10.7%
9 Bottle Shop ▲3 +10.2%
10 Bob's Discount Liquors ▲4 +10.1%
11 Pacific Liquor ▲5 +9.7%
12 Eagle Liquor ▼1 +9.4%
13 Royal Liquor ▲3 +8.0%
14 Mr Liquor ▲3 +7.9%
15 Joe's Liquor ▲3 +7.4%
  • BevMo!
  • Verdugo Market
  • MD Liquor & Food
  • Beverage House Liquor
  • Keg N Bottle
  • Liquor Mart
  • Big Liquor
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,648 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 190 of the 3,648 stores (5%); 2,561 of the 2,891 tracked chains have a single store here. 24% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across the United States.

  • BevMo! (147)
  • Verdugo Market (4)
  • MD Liquor & Food (4)
  • Beverage House Liquor (4)
  • Keg N Bottle (9)
  • Liquor Mart (10)
  • Big Liquor (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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