Chain · United States · data through August 2026

S Safeway logo Safeway

Iceflower tracks 1,044 Safeway stores across 25 US states and DC. It ranks #6 of 31,146 tracked US grocery stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -5.2% over the last year.

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 stores
1,044
States
25
Category
Grocery Store
Category rank
#6

Growth

Safeway against its category

The biggest tracked US grocery stores chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Safeway's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q3 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 K Kroger logo Kroger +19.7%
2 P Publix logo Publix -2.7%
3 A ALDI logo ALDI -2.9%
4 M Meijer logo Meijer +1.5%
5 F Food Lion logo Food Lion -2.9%
6 S Safeway logo Safeway -5.2%
7 H H-E-B logo H-E-B +9.8%
8 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's +4.6%
9 W Wegmans logo Wegmans -2.0%
10 W WinCo logo WinCo -6.6%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 95.0 2024 Q3 2026 Q2

Store footprint

Store map

1,044 tracked Safeway locations across 25 US states and DC.

Customer overlap

Who shops at Safeway

Tracked chains Safeway customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

F Fred Meyer logo Fred Meyer 100
G Giant Food logo Giant Food 62
R Raley's logo Raley's 44
Q QFC logo QFC 43
C Costco logo Costco 42
A ARCO logo ARCO 33
H Haggen logo Haggen 33
W WinCo logo WinCo 32

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