Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 1,103 stores from 616 grocery & convenience chains in Connecticut. The Fresh Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Bestway and Key Food.

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
616
Tracked stores
1,103
Consumer panel
130M+

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. The Fresh Market and Bestway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market ▲2 +19.0%
2 B Bestway ▲3 +17.2%
3 K Key Food logo Key Food ▲1 +13.3%
4 C Costco logo Costco - +12.4%
5 C Caraluzzi's Wine and Spirits ▲1 +7.4%
6 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club ▲2 +5.5%
7 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +4.1%
8 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - +1.8%
9 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +1.0%
10 L LaBonne's Markets logo LaBonne's Markets ▲2 +0.8%
11 A Adams Hometown Market logo Adams Hometown Market ▲1 +0.5%
12 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot ▲1 -0.3%
13 D Duchess ▲1 -0.6%
14 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop - -0.6%
15 S ShopRite logo ShopRite - -0.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,103 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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