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. Key Food and The Fresh Market sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Key Food | ▲2 | +17.3% |
| 2 | The Fresh Market | - | +9.4% |
| 3 | Sam's Food Stores | ▲1 | +8.6% |
| 4 | Whole Foods Market | ▲1 | +7.3% |
| 5 | Trader Joe's | ▲1 | +7.1% |
| 6 | Quick Stop | ▲1 | +5.2% |
| 7 | Kindred Spirits & Wine | ▲2 | +5.1% |
| 8 | Costco | - | +4.6% |
| 9 | Stop & Shop | - | +4.2% |
| 10 | Caraluzzi's | ▲1 | +4.1% |
| 11 | Stew Leonard's | - | +2.8% |
| 12 | Krauszer's Food Store | ▲1 | +2.5% |
| 13 | LaBonne's Markets | ▲1 | +1.8% |
| 14 | ShopRite | - | +1.5% |
| 15 | M & R Liquors | - | -0.7% |
- Liquor Store
- Supermarkets
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Other grocery stores
- Farm
- Food & Beverage Store
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
2,438 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 226 of the 2,438 stores (9%); 1,791 of the 1,922 tracked chains have a single store here. 40% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across the United States.
- Liquor Store (965)
- Supermarkets (343)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (268)
- Other grocery stores (265)
- Farm (146)
- Food & Beverage Store (75)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (73)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Stop & Shop 100
- 2 Big Y World Class Market 43
- 3 ALDI 34
- 4 ShopRite 28
- 5 Sam's Food Stores 21
- 6 Whole Foods Market 15
- 7 Krauszer's Food Store 15
- 8 BJ's Wholesale Club 13
- 9 BevMax 11
- 10 Price Rite Marketplace 10
- 11 Trader Joe's 9
- 12 Price Chopper 9
- 13 CTown Supermarkets 9
- 14 Bestway 9
- 15 Costco 8
- 16 Key Food 7
- 17 Quick Stop 6
- 18 Geissler's Supermarket 6
- 19 Adams Hometown Market 6
- 20 M & R Liquors 5
- 21 Amazing Grapes 5
- 22 Total Wine & More 4
- 23 The Fresh Market 4
- 24 Grand Wine & Spirits 4
- 25 Caraluzzi's 4
- 26 Kindred Spirits & Wine 4
- 27 Liquor World 4
- 28 Country Farms 4
- 29 Caraluzzi's Wine and Spirits 4
- 30 LaBonne's Markets 4
- 31 ACME Markets 4
- 32 Restaurant Depot 3
- 33 Sam's Club 3
- 34 Cost Cutter Liquors 3
- 35 Stew Leonard's 3
- 36 Highland Park Market 3
- 37 Food Bazaar 2
- 38 Big Gary's Wine & Spirits 2
- 39 Lyman Orchards 2
- 40 Foodworks 2
- 41 Coast Guard Exchange 2
- 42 That's the Spirit Shoppe 2
- 43 Bogner Quality Meats 2
- 44 Crazy Bruce's Liquors 2
- 45 Holmberg Orchards 2
- 46 Good Nature Market 2
- 47 Balducci's Food Lover's Market 2
- 48 Seaside Wine and Spirits 2
- 49 Bottle Shop 2
- 50 Universal Package Store 2
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