Growth
Whole Foods Market against its category
The biggest tracked US upscale & natural grocers 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 Whole Foods Market's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trader Joe's | +3.6% |
| 2 | Wegmans | -2.1% |
| 3 | Whole Foods Market | -1.0% |
| 4 | Sprouts Farmers Market | +1.1% |
| 5 | The Fresh Market | -4.2% |
| 6 | Natural Grocers | -0.2% |
| 7 | Fresh Thyme Market | -10.0% |
| 8 | Harmons | -0.5% |
| 9 | Heinen's | -2.2% |
| 10 | Sendik's | -0.6% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
580 tracked Whole Foods Market locations across 44 US states and DC. California, Florida, and Texas hold 32% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 107
- Florida 39
- Texas 38
- New York 36
- Massachusetts 32
- Illinois 31
- New Jersey 25
- Colorado 24
- Virginia 19
- Pennsylvania 18
- North Carolina 16
- Connecticut 15
- Georgia 15
- Washington 14
- Ohio 12
- Arizona 11
- Maryland 11
- Oregon 10
- Tennessee 9
- District of Columbia 8
- Michigan 8
- Louisiana 7
- Minnesota 7
- Kansas 6
- Nevada 6
- Indiana 5
- South Carolina 5
- Hawaii 4
- Missouri 4
- New Hampshire 4
- New Mexico 4
- Utah 4
- Wisconsin 4
- Alabama 3
- Kentucky 3
- Oklahoma 3
- Rhode Island 3
- Arkansas 2
- Nebraska 2
- Iowa 1
- Idaho 1
- Maine 1
- Mississippi 1
- Montana 1
- Wyoming 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Whole Foods Market
Tracked chains Whole Foods Market customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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