Trends · data through September 2026

Pet Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 1,357 stores from 686 pet store chains in California. Pet Food Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Maddie Mae's Pet Pantry and IB Pet.

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
686
Tracked stores
1,357
Consumer panel
130M+

Metro by metro

The leading pet store chains in every California metro area

Tracked pet store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. PetSmart leads in 10 metro areas, Petco in 7 metro areas, and Pet Food Express in 1 metro area. Against their share in California as a whole, PetSmart stands out in 6 metro areas, Petco in 4 metro areas, and Pet Food Express in 1 metro area.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Redding, CA · Salinas, CA · San Luis Obispo, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA

Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pet store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to California compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in California as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in California and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of California is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pet 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. Pet Food Express and Maddie Mae's Pet Pantry sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Pet Food Express - +10.9%
2 Maddie Mae's Pet Pantry ▲3 +9.9%
3 IB Pet - +8.9%
4 Reptile Island ▲1 +6.4%
5 Reptile Factory ▲2 +2.8%
6 Pet Supply - +2.8%
7 Carter's Pet Mart ▲1 +0.4%
8 PetSmart - -0.6%
9 Pet Supplies Plus - -0.6%
10 Petco - -1.5%
11 Incredible Pets - -1.6%
12 Kahoots Feed and Pet - -1.7%
13 Wild Birds Unlimited - -2.1%
14 Healthy Pet ▲1 -2.4%
15 Lemos Feed & Pet Supply - -3.6%
  • Petco
  • PetSmart
  • Pet Food Express
  • Kahoots Feed and Pet
  • Pet Club
  • Pet Supplies Plus
  • IB Pet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,357 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 505 of the 1,357 stores (37%); 615 of the 686 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are pet stores, against 3% across the United States.

  • Petco (223)
  • PetSmart (173)
  • Pet Food Express (72)
  • Kahoots Feed and Pet (20)
  • Pet Club (12)
  • Pet Supplies Plus (15)
  • IB Pet (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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