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. Harps Food Stores and H-E-B sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harps Food Stores | ▲14 | +14.7% |
| 2 | H-E-B | - | +14.7% |
| 3 | The Fresh Grocer | ▲9 | +14.4% |
| 4 | Foodland | ▲5 | +13.1% |
| 5 | Woodman's Food Market | ▲3 | +12.6% |
| 6 | Broulim's | ▲8 | +12.5% |
| 7 | Super 1 Foods | ▲8 | +12.1% |
| 8 | Nugget Markets | ▲8 | +10.8% |
| 9 | Kroger | - | +10.7% |
| 10 | Berkot's Super Foods | ▲9 | +10.5% |
| 11 | Market Street | ▲3 | +10.5% |
| 12 | H Mart | ▲2 | +9.9% |
| 13 | The Honey Baked Ham Company | ▲8 | +9.7% |
| 14 | Key Food | ▲12 | +9.4% |
| 15 | Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market | ▲10 | +8.0% |
- Liquor Store
- Supermarkets
- Other grocery stores
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Farm
- Upscale & Natural Grocers
- Discount Grocers
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
25,000 of 141,852 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 7,947 of the 141,852 stores (6%); 76,525 of the 85,057 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Liquor Store (31,067)
- Supermarkets (27,139)
- Other grocery stores (22,146)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (19,376)
- Farm (6,151)
- Upscale & Natural Grocers (5,941)
- Discount Grocers (5,400)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 ALDI 2,616
- 2 Kroger 1,559
- 3 Publix 1,535
- 4 Food Lion 1,188
- 5 Safeway 1,049
- 6 Save A Lot 871
- 7 Sam's Club 686
- 8 Costco 681
- 9 Trader Joe's 615
- 10 Stop & Shop 602
- 11 Whole Foods Market 580
- 12 Winn-Dixie 527
- 13 Fine Wine & Good Spirits 523
- 14 The Honey Baked Ham Company 510
- 15 Piggly Wiggly 492
- 16 Albertsons 471
- 17 Sprouts Farmers Market 445
- 18 Grocery Outlet 445
- 19 Virginia ABC 411
- 20 Hy-Vee 362
- 21 Meijer 353
- 22 Harris Teeter 302
- 23 H-E-B 300
- 24 ShopRite 300
- 25 Total Wine & More 295
- 26 BJ's Wholesale Club 280
- 27 Giant Eagle 270
- 28 Smart & Final 266
- 29 Food City 232
- 30 Key Food 228
- 31 Weis Markets 222
- 32 Ralphs 215
- 33 Ingles 208
- 34 Price Chopper 201
- 35 Hannaford 200
- 36 Vons 198
- 37 Jewel-Osco 195
- 38 Lidl 195
- 39 Tom Thumb 193
- 40 Giant Food 193
- 41 The Fresh Market 192
- 42 GIANT 189
- 43 Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods 189
- 44 Gordon Food Service Store 186
- 45 Natural Grocers 177
- 46 Fred Meyer 177
- 47 Stater Bros. Markets 176
- 48 ACME Markets 173
- 49 Smith's Food and Drug Stores 169
- 50 Tops Friendly Markets 168
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