Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 2,657 stores from 1,711 grocery & convenience chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Trader Joe's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Checkout and Sprouts Farmers Market.

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
1,711
Tracked stores
2,657
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. Trader Joe's and Checkout sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Trader Joe's - +15.2%
2 Checkout - +13.8%
3 Sprouts Farmers Market ▲2 +12.9%
4 Primespot ▲2 +11.5%
5 99 Ranch Market - +9.6%
6 Stop N Joy ▲1 +8.2%
7 Stone Cold Meats ▲2 +7.8%
8 Keemat Grocers ▲1 +7.7%
9 One Stop ▲3 +7.7%
10 Restaurant Depot ▼1 +6.4%
11 Guerrero Meat Market ▲2 +6.0%
12 Ralston Discount Liquors ▲1 +5.9%
13 EZ Food Stop ▲2 +4.8%
14 Kroger - +3.8%
15 WB Liquors & Wine ▲3 +2.9%

Store footprint

Store map

2,657 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 335 of the 2,657 stores (13%); 1,519 of the 1,711 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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