Trends · data through August 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 1,181 stores from 739 grocery & convenience chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Food 4 Less grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sprouts Farmers Market and El Super.

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
739
Tracked stores
1,181
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. Food 4 Less and Sprouts Farmers Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food 4 Less logo Food 4 Less - +14.0%
2 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market - +12.8%
3 E El Super logo El Super ▲2 +12.3%
4 B Barons Market logo Barons Market - +10.5%
5 N North Park Produce logo North Park Produce - +7.8%
6 A ALDI logo ALDI - +4.4%
7 R Ralphs logo Ralphs ▲1 +1.8%
8 C Costco logo Costco - +1.1%
9 9 99 Ranch Market logo 99 Ranch Market - -0.9%
10 S Seafood City Supermarket logo Seafood City Supermarket - -1.1%
11 K Keg N Bottle logo Keg N Bottle - -1.5%
12 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More - -2.2%
13 S Stater Bros. Markets logo Stater Bros. Markets - -2.8%
14 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -3.8%
15 G Grocery Outlet logo Grocery Outlet ▲1 -3.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,181 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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