Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA

Iceflower tracks 131 stores from 112 grocery & convenience chains in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA. New Leaf Community Markets grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Safeway and Raley'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
112
Tracked stores
131
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. New Leaf Community Markets and Safeway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 New Leaf Community Markets - +12.5%
2 Safeway - -4.8%
3 Raley's - -10.5%
  • Liquor Store
  • Other grocery stores
  • Supermarkets
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Farm
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Farmers Market
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

131 tracked store locations in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 19 of the 131 stores (15%); 102 of the 112 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are upscale & natural grocers, against 6% across California.

  • Liquor Store (31)
  • Other grocery stores (26)
  • Supermarkets (23)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (14)
  • Farm (7)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (5)
  • Farmers Market (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Safeway 7
  • 2 New Leaf Community Markets 5
  • 3 Raley's 3
  • 4 Trader Joe's 2
  • 5 Whole Foods Market 2
  • 6 Live Earth Farm 2
  • 7 Wild Roots Market 2
  • 8 La Princesa Market 2
  • 9 Quality Market 2
  • 10 Grocery Outlet 2
  • 11 Cheese Shop 831 1
  • 12 Pleasure Point Liquor & Mini Mart 1
  • 13 El Salchichero 1
  • 14 Post Street Farm 1
  • 15 El Pueblo Market 1
  • 16 Go Ask Alice 1
  • 17 Mountain Spirits 1
  • 18 U Save Liquor 1
  • 19 Cork In Bottle Liqour 1
  • 20 Harvest Moon Market 1
  • 21 41st Avenue Liquor 1
  • 22 Deer Park Wine & Spirits 1
  • 23 Farmers Market 1
  • 24 East Lake Food and Liquor 1
  • 25 Felton Fair Liquors 1
  • 26 Soquel Quality Meat Market 1
  • 27 Rodoni Farms 1
  • 28 Ernie's Liquor 1
  • 29 Far West Fungi 1
  • 30 Del Pueblo Market 1
  • 31 Santa Cruz Market 1
  • 32 Graham Hill Mini Market 1
  • 33 Santa Fe Foods 1
  • 34 Ocean Market & Deli 1
  • 35 El Patio Grocery 1
  • 36 Deer Park Wine and Spirits 1
  • 37 Prevedelli Farms 1
  • 38 Scotts Valley Liquors 1
  • 39 Aqualight Water Store 1
  • 40 Four Corners Market 1
  • 41 Live Oak Liquor 1
  • 42 Pure Water of Watsonville 1
  • 43 H&H Fresh Fish Co 1
  • 44 Redwood Keg Liquor & Deli 1
  • 45 FeNella's Berries 1
  • 46 El Valle Produce 1
  • 47 Orchard Park Market 1
  • 48 Blue Heron Farms 1
  • 49 Cactus Corner 1
  • 50 The Rego Ranch 1

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