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. Hannaford and Market Basket sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannaford | - | +8.5% |
| 2 | Market Basket | - | +7.8% |
| 3 | BJ's Wholesale Club | - | +7.0% |
| 4 | ALDI | - | -0.8% |
| 5 | Stop & Shop | - | -2.4% |
| 6 | Shaw's | - | -4.2% |
| 7 | Family Farms | - | -5.4% |
| 8 | Price Chopper | - | -6.8% |
- Liquor Store
- Supermarkets
- Corner Stores & Bodegas
- Other grocery stores
- Farm
- Produce Store
- Butcher Shop
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
412 tracked store locations in Worcester, MA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 44 of the 412 stores (11%); 332 of the 350 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 5% across Massachusetts.
- Liquor Store (146)
- Supermarkets (70)
- Corner Stores & Bodegas (57)
- Other grocery stores (33)
- Farm (31)
- Produce Store (15)
- Butcher Shop (14)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Stop & Shop 11
- 2 Price Chopper 11
- 3 Shaw's 8
- 4 Market Basket 7
- 5 Hannaford 7
- 6 Big Y World Class Market 6
- 7 BJ's Wholesale Club 5
- 8 ALDI 4
- 9 Family Farms 3
- 10 Trader Joe's 2
- 11 Main Street Discount Liquors 2
- 12 Brothers Liquor 2
- 13 Wyman's Liquors 2
- 14 Market 32 2
- 15 Foodworks 2
- 16 Austin Liquors 2
- 17 Wachusett Wine & Spirits 2
- 18 Turnout Variety Store Inc 1
- 19 Big Boi Meat Market 1
- 20 Kelley Square Liquors 1
- 21 Highland Wine and Spirits 1
- 22 Colony Farms 1
- 23 Mass Discount Liquors 1
- 24 Big Bob's Wine & Spirits 1
- 25 Village Market 1
- 26 In & Out Convenience 1
- 27 Country Corner 1
- 28 Hank's Liquors 1
- 29 Super Liquors 1
- 30 Highland Liquors 1
- 31 Star Liquor 1
- 32 A1 Mart 1
- 33 Fred's Variety & Package Store 1
- 34 Peerless Liquors 1
- 35 Jim's Liquors 1
- 36 Sutton Center Country Store 1
- 37 Stafford Discount Liquors 1
- 38 Cowboy Supermarket II 1
- 39 Wegmans 1
- 40 Gove Farm 1
- 41 Bob's Turkey Farm 1
- 42 Ed Stearns Dressed Meats 1
- 43 Whittier Farms 1
- 44 Foppema's Farm 1
- 45 Cournoyer Vegetable Farm 1
- 46 Turnpike Liquor Store 1
- 47 Marty's Liquors 1
- 48 Gardner Spirits 1
- 49 Valley View Farm 1
- 50 Mac Package Store 1
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