Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

Iceflower tracks 1,255 stores from 757 grocery & convenience chains in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ. Sam's Club grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Trader Joe's.

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
757
Tracked stores
1,255
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. Sam's Club and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sam's Club - +7.3%
2 ALDI - +6.6%
3 Trader Joe's ▲1 +5.8%
4 Trevor's Liquor - +5.3%
5 Fry's Food Stores - +1.7%
6 Carniceria Los Reyes ▲2 +0.8%
7 Costco - -0.4%
8 The Honey Baked Ham Company - -0.4%
9 Water N Ice - -1.1%
10 Safeway - -4.0%
11 Natural Grocers - -5.0%
12 Liquor Wheel - -5.7%
13 Mercado y Carniceria El Rancho ▲1 -6.3%
14 Food City - -7.5%
15 Albertsons ▼1 -7.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,255 tracked store locations in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 278 of the 1,255 stores (22%); 689 of the 757 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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