Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Tucson, AZ

Iceflower tracks 234 stores from 156 grocery & convenience chains in Tucson, AZ. Costco grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market.

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
156
Tracked stores
234
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. Costco and Trader Joe's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Costco - +5.2%
2 Trader Joe's - +3.6%
3 Whole Foods Market - +0.2%
4 Safeway - +0.1%
5 Food City - -2.7%
6 Fry's Food Stores - -3.3%
7 Sprouts Farmers Market - -4.1%
8 Bashas' - -6.6%
9 Natural Grocers - -7.4%
10 Albertsons - -7.8%
  • Supermarkets
  • Other grocery stores
  • Liquor Store
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas
  • Butcher Shop
  • Warehouse Club
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

234 tracked store locations in Tucson, AZ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 65 of the 234 stores (28%); 143 of the 156 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are corner stores & bodegas, against 12% across Arizona.

  • Supermarkets (74)
  • Other grocery stores (34)
  • Liquor Store (29)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (22)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (20)
  • Butcher Shop (18)
  • Warehouse Club (8)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Fry's Food Stores 23
  • 2 Safeway 19
  • 3 Food City 8
  • 4 Albertsons 8
  • 5 Sprouts Farmers Market 7
  • 6 Bashas' 6
  • 7 Natural Grocers 4
  • 8 Trader Joe's 4
  • 9 Whole Foods Market 3
  • 10 Costco 3
  • 11 Total Wine & More 2
  • 12 The Honey Baked Ham Company 2
  • 13 Primo Water 2
  • 14 Diamond R Liquor Store 1
  • 15 India Food & Gifts 1
  • 16 George Wine Shop 1
  • 17 Tony's Liquors 1
  • 18 Valencia Market 1
  • 19 Carniceria Camacho 1
  • 20 Dolce Pastello 1
  • 21 Market Friendly 1
  • 22 Watermill Express 1
  • 23 Marana Heritage Farm 1
  • 24 Tucson Herb Store 1
  • 25 Sells District Service Station 1
  • 26 The Good Leaf 1
  • 27 Del Sol Marketplace 1
  • 28 Monterey Market 1
  • 29 QN Market 1
  • 30 Mount Lemmon General Store and Gift Shop 1
  • 31 Rita Ranch Market 1
  • 32 India Dukaan 1
  • 33 Beverage Store 1
  • 34 Wagon Wheel Post 1
  • 35 Wildcat Drive Thru Liquors 1
  • 36 Supercarniceria Del Valle 1
  • 37 Family Food Store 1
  • 38 Islas Meat Market 1
  • 39 Sun Oriental Market 1
  • 40 Mei Mei 1
  • 41 Gus's Liquor Store 1
  • 42 Bulldog Bakery & BBQ 1
  • 43 Gu Achi Trading Post 1
  • 44 Henry's Market 1
  • 45 San Xavier Co-Op Farm 1
  • 46 Midtown Liquor & Deli 1
  • 47 Heirloom Farmers Market 1
  • 48 Super 99 Cent Plus Store 1
  • 49 Alejandro 1
  • 50 Davison Meats 1

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