Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Beverage Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 4,099 stores from 3,758 food & beverage store chains in the United States. The Water Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hill's Quality Seafood Market and Mekong 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
3,758
Tracked stores
4,099
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & beverage store 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. The Water Store and Hill's Quality Seafood Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 The Water Store - +12.2%
2 Hill's Quality Seafood Market ▲1 +11.4%
3 Mekong Market ▼1 +10.3%
4 Western Edge Seafood Outlet ▲1 +6.1%
5 Linda's Seafood Market ▲1 +3.6%
6 Grandpa's CheeseBarn - +0.6%
7 Jackie's Seafood Market ▲1 -0.2%
8 S. Clyde Weaver - -2.5%
9 Seaview Crab Company ▲1 -3.3%
10 Capital Seafood Market - -4.8%
11 Ocean Fish Market ▲1 -5.4%
12 Wise Guys Discount Liquors - -6.0%
13 Simply Seafood ▲2 -6.1%
14 Lancaster Cupcake ▲1 -6.4%
15 Hill's Liquor - -13.5%
  • Buffalo Trace Distillery
  • Ole Smoky Distillery
  • La Hacienda Brands, Inc.
  • Lee Lee International Supermarkets
  • Safe Harbor Seafood Market
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood
  • Grandpa's CheeseBarn
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,099 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 40 of the 4,099 stores (1.0%); 3,539 of the 3,758 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Buffalo Trace Distillery (1)
  • Ole Smoky Distillery (2)
  • La Hacienda Brands, Inc. (1)
  • Lee Lee International Supermarkets (2)
  • Safe Harbor Seafood Market (1)
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood (1)
  • Grandpa's CheeseBarn (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 The Water Store 15
  • 2 The Creamery 10
  • 3 Seaview Crab Company 7
  • 4 Simply Seafood 4
  • 5 The Citadel 4
  • 6 Jackie's Seafood Market 4
  • 7 Hill's Quality Seafood Market 4
  • 8 Mekong Market 4
  • 9 Lancaster Cupcake 4
  • 10 Western Edge Seafood Outlet 4
  • 11 Ocean Fish Market 4
  • 12 Beer Depot 3
  • 13 Gwenie's Pastries 3
  • 14 S. Clyde Weaver 3
  • 15 Hill's Liquor 3
  • 16 Grandpa's CheeseBarn 3
  • 17 Wagshal’s 3
  • 18 Linda's Seafood Market 3
  • 19 Capital Seafood Market 3
  • 20 Wise Guys Discount Liquors 3
  • 21 Lita's Treats 2
  • 22 Luminary Distilling 2
  • 23 Alexander Produce 2
  • 24 Eastern Kille Distillery 2
  • 25 Copper Fox Distillery 2
  • 26 Saltwater Markets 2
  • 27 Lam's Seafood Market 2
  • 28 Eugene Platts Seafood 2
  • 29 PJ Liquor 2
  • 30 Cakes Plus 2
  • 31 Four Roses Distillery LLC 2
  • 32 Woods Seafood 2
  • 33 Bluebird Distilling 2
  • 34 Hard Truth 2
  • 35 Lee Lee International Supermarkets 2
  • 36 Southern Roots Smokehouse 2
  • 37 Ole Smoky Distillery 2
  • 38 Billy's Seafood 2
  • 39 Kaminsky's Dessert Cafe 2
  • 40 Smith Creek Moonshine 2
  • 41 Tennessee Hills Distillery 2
  • 42 Neopol Savory Smokery 2
  • 43 Shady Lady Liquor 2
  • 44 Weldon Mills Distillery 2
  • 45 American Deli & Liquor 1
  • 46 Central Standard Craft Distillery 1
  • 47 WK Liquors 1
  • 48 Lobster Maine-ia 1
  • 49 Lock 1 Distilling Company 1
  • 50 Hwy 61 Liquor Store 1

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