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. Shamrock Foodservice Warehouse and Applejack Wine & Spirits sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shamrock Foodservice Warehouse | ▲1 | +19.6% |
| 2 | Applejack Wine & Spirits | ▲3 | +17.8% |
| 3 | Lucky's Market | - | +14.9% |
| 4 | Hilltop Liquor | ▲2 | +11.7% |
| 5 | Tony's Market | ▲2 | +10.9% |
| 6 | Gateway Liquor | ▲3 | +10.8% |
| 7 | Trader Joe's | - | +6.3% |
| 8 | Stop N Save | - | +6.1% |
| 9 | Sam's Club | - | +5.5% |
| 10 | Save A Lot | - | +5.2% |
| 11 | C & F Food Store | ▲3 | +3.4% |
| 12 | Albertsons | ▼1 | +3.2% |
| 13 | Natural Grocers | - | +2.8% |
| 14 | Restaurant Depot | - | +2.7% |
| 15 | Great Wall Supermarket | ▲1 | +2.6% |
- Liquor Store
- Supermarkets
- Other grocery stores
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Food & Beverage Store
- Butcher Shop
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
2,829 tracked store locations in Colorado, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 373 of the 2,829 stores (13%); 2,051 of the 2,174 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 14% across the United States.
- Liquor Store (1,185)
- Supermarkets (425)
- Other grocery stores (301)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (200)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (166)
- Food & Beverage Store (104)
- Butcher Shop (91)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 King Soopers 133
- 2 Safeway 124
- 3 Natural Grocers 46
- 4 City Market 35
- 5 Sprouts Farmers Market 35
- 6 Whole Foods Market 24
- 7 Sam's Club 20
- 8 Costco 18
- 9 Save A Lot 15
- 10 Jenny's Market 14
- 11 Stop N Save 14
- 12 The Honey Baked Ham Company 11
- 13 Trader Joe's 9
- 14 Clark's Market 7
- 15 Savory Spice Shop 7
- 16 Albertsons 6
- 17 Total Wine & More 5
- 18 Mi Pueblo Market 5
- 19 Ku Cha House of Tea 5
- 20 Shamrock Foodservice Warehouse 4
- 21 Sky market 4
- 22 The Liquor Cabinet 4
- 23 Lowe's Market 4
- 24 Fast Market 3
- 25 C & F Food Store 3
- 26 Gateway Liquor 3
- 27 Coca-Cola 3
- 28 Shop 'n Save 3
- 29 Great Wall Supermarket 3
- 30 Hilltop Liquor 3
- 31 Liquor Depot 3
- 32 Barn Store 3
- 33 Tony's Market 3
- 34 Restaurant Depot 3
- 35 Lucky's Market 3
- 36 Applejack Wine & Spirits 3
- 37 Total Beverage 2
- 38 Marczyk Fine Foods 2
- 39 Davidsons 2
- 40 Lucky Me Liquor 2
- 41 Carniceria Compare 2
- 42 Daveco Beer, Wine & Spirits 2
- 43 Coca-Cola Bottling Co. 2
- 44 Big D's Liquor 2
- 45 H Mart 2
- 46 AAFES 2
- 47 Great Scotts 2
- 48 Liquor 2
- 49 Nude Foods Market 2
- 50 Quincy Liquor 2
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