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Top 25 Independent grocery stores worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,457 independent grocery stores worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 57,443 professional contacts across them, including 6,050 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers independent grocery stores worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for independent grocery stores follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest independent grocery stores worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,595 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Esta é a história de uma empresa alicerçada em muito trabalho, dedicação e respeito pelas pessoas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,257 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Wakefern Food Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Farm Boy, it’s all about the food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,780 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,646 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hemköp är butikskedjan för matintresserade människor och kännetecknas av personlig service, tonvikt på färskvaror samt ett brett sortiment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,506 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Fresh Thyme Market, we’re helping people live better, healthier lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,384 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to provide the best overall value to our customers, building a reputation for competitive prices, product quality, and freshness, friendly service, and cleanliness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,220 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “New Seasons Market is a friendly neighborhood grocery store that believes great-tasting, local food has the power to build community and enhance lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Be Part of Something Remarkable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 898 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foodland is "Food, Family, Friends & Aloha." Our founder, the late Maurice J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 892 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “85 Years: United in Service Associated Food Stores, Inc, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a cooperatively owned wholesale distributor to almost 500 independently owned…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 889 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lawson is one of the biggest convenience store chains started from a milk factory owned by J.J Lawson in Ohio, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 827 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Redner's Warehouse Markets is 100% employee, American and locally owned and family oriented retail food company serving our customer's grocery needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 772 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Building on its more than 100-year history in the grocery business, Piggly Wiggly ® continues to grow its presence with stores throughout the Midwest, South and Northeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 730 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It all started with $1,100 and a dream for Ben and Dorthy Haggen and Doug Clark when they opened their first store in 1933 in Bellingham, Washington.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 713 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Booths is a family owned and operated independent supermarket with 26 stores across Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Cheshire and Greater Manchester.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 691 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Era a década de 70, quando o casal Vera e Antonio (cujas iniciais originaram o nome Veran) inaugurou seu primeiro supermercado em Guaianases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 675 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, Harris Farm Markets has been reconnecting Aussies with the joy of food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 666 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jan Linders Supermarkten, opgericht in 1963 door Jan Linders, was tot 2023 een zelfstandige supermarktketen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 516 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1975, Busch's has been bringing people together through great food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Spar, community is everything.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 313 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kowalski's Markets is a local family owned and operated business with 11 locations throughout the Twin Cities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shwapno” is the place where tens of millions of people expect their dream come in true- the dream of getting fair price & weight and pleasant shopping experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Okay, da’s vlot en voordelig kiezen voor vers en kwaliteit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Berkot's Super Foods is your neighborhood, family-owned and operated, full-service grocery store.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: independent grocery stores. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names independent grocery stores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of independent grocery stores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name independent grocery stores. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Independent grocery stores worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among independent grocery stores, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for independent grocery stores are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “independent grocery stores”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names independent grocery stores), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among independent grocery stores, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,050 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Independent grocery stores by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Independent grocery stores list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names independent grocery stores, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many independent grocery stores are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,457 independent grocery stores worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Oficial Atakarejo, headquartered in Salvador, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most independent grocery stores?
The United States leads with 591 companies, followed by France (99) and Canada (79). Every independent grocery stores list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most independent grocery stores?
London leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (12) and New York (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,050 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,457 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.