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 Honey Baked Ham Company and AAFES sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Honey Baked Ham Company | ▲6 | +18.8% |
| 2 | AAFES | - | +8.1% |
| 3 | Kroger | - | +3.4% |
| 4 | The Fresh Market | ▲3 | +3.1% |
| 5 | Liquor Barn | ▲3 | +0.9% |
| 6 | Paul's Fruit Market | - | -0.4% |
| 7 | Stop N Go | ▲3 | -0.9% |
| 8 | Food Giant | ▲2 | -1.0% |
| 9 | Trader Joe's | - | -1.5% |
| 10 | Sam's Club | - | -1.8% |
| 11 | Costco | - | -2.0% |
| 12 | Save A Lot | - | -2.3% |
| 13 | Liquor Outlet | ▲2 | -2.6% |
| 14 | Meijer | - | -3.5% |
| 15 | Quality Quick | ▲2 | -3.6% |
- Liquor Store
- Supermarkets
- Other grocery stores
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Farm
- Discount Grocers
- Food & Beverage Store
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
2,392 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 310 of the 2,392 stores (13%); 1,639 of the 1,763 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are discount grocers, against 4% across the United States.
- Liquor Store (638)
- Supermarkets (360)
- Other grocery stores (358)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (316)
- Farm (148)
- Discount Grocers (147)
- Food & Beverage Store (87)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Kroger 128
- 2 Save A Lot 102
- 3 IGA 33
- 4 ALDI 26
- 5 Liquor Barn 21
- 6 Food Giant 18
- 7 Meijer 16
- 8 Cox's Spirit Shoppe 16
- 9 Food City 13
- 10 Liquor World 12
- 11 Price Less IGA 11
- 12 The Honey Baked Ham Company 10
- 13 Ameristop Food Mart 10
- 14 Sam's Club 9
- 15 Ruler Foods 7
- 16 Crossroads IGA 7
- 17 Speedy Mart 6
- 18 Paul's Fruit Market 6
- 19 Gordon Food Service Store 6
- 20 Stop N Go 5
- 21 Remke 5
- 22 Beverage Barn 5
- 23 Supermercado Aguascalientes 4
- 24 Ideal Market 4
- 25 Rainbow Blossom 4
- 26 Liquor King 4
- 27 Food Lion 4
- 28 Houchens Market 4
- 29 Quality Quick 4
- 30 Canteen 4
- 31 Costco 4
- 32 ValuMarket 4
- 33 Dollar General Market 4
- 34 Publix 4
- 35 AAFES 4
- 36 Price Less Foods 4
- 37 Total Wine & More 4
- 38 Liquor Mart 4
- 39 The Fresh Market 4
- 40 Liquor City 3
- 41 Jr Food Stores 3
- 42 Hometown Liquor 3
- 43 Liquor Mart of Corbin 3
- 44 Good Spirits Wine And Tobacco 3
- 45 Liquor Outlet 3
- 46 Grab N Go 3
- 47 Whole Foods Market 3
- 48 Trader Joe's 3
- 49 Five Star Breaktime Solutions 3
- 50 Supermercado Guanajuato 3
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