Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery Stores in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 871 stores from 332 grocery stores chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Sprouts Farmers Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Time Mart and Checkout.

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
332
Tracked stores
871
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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. Sprouts Farmers Market and Time Mart sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market - +15.6%
2 T Time Mart ▲3 +15.4%
3 C Checkout ▲1 +11.2%
4 N Now & Forever ▲1 +9.9%
5 S Star Stop ▲2 +6.6%
6 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +5.6%
7 H H-E-B logo H-E-B - +3.7%
8 E El Rancho Supermercado logo El Rancho Supermercado ▲2 +1.9%
9 K Keemat Grocers - +1.6%
10 R RoadTrac ▼1 +1.3%
11 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market ▲1 +1.1%
12 J Joe V's ▲1 -1.2%
13 S Super K Food Store - -1.8%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI - -2.5%
15 K Kroger logo Kroger - -3.2%
  • H-E-B
  • Kroger
  • ALDI
  • Randalls
  • Joe V's
  • Foodtown
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

871 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • H-E-B (78)
  • Kroger (125)
  • ALDI (25)
  • Randalls (16)
  • Joe V's (6)
  • Foodtown (32)
  • Whole Foods Market (13)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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