Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in the United States

Iceflower tracks 141,852 stores from 85,057 grocery & convenience chains in the United States. Harps Food Stores grew fastest over the last year, ahead of H-E-B and The Fresh Grocer.

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
85,057
Tracked stores
141,852
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. Harps Food Stores and H-E-B sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY 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%

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.

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