Grocery & Convenience Trends in New Jersey 2026

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. Produce Junction and Grocery Outlet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Produce Junction	▲3	+18.2%
2	Grocery Outlet	▲4	+16.9%
3	Super Fresh	-	+14.6%
4	Tropical Supermarket	▲3	+13.8%
5	H Mart	-	+13.3%
6	The Fresh Grocer	▲3	+13.3%
7	Basil Bandwagon Natural Market	▲6	+12.9%
8	Quick Stop	▲3	+12.7%
9	Wine Outlet	▲1	+11.6%
10	Country Farms	▲3	+11.6%
11	The Wine Rack	-	+11.6%
12	Universal Food Markets	▲1	+10.9%
13	Seabra Foods	-	+10.6%
14	Livoti's Old World Market	▲3	+9.3%
15	Total Wine & More	▲1	+6.5%

Store footprint

Store map

4,501 tracked store locations in New Jersey, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 381 of the 4,501 stores (8%); 3,119 of the 3,359 tracked chains have a single store here. 32% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across the United States.