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Top 25 Specialty grocery stores based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 322 specialty grocery stores headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 15,159 professional contacts across them, including 1,321 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers specialty grocery stores headquartered in the United States, 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 22, 2026.
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 specialty grocery stores based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1982, The Fresh Market, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 940 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our humble beginnings as a small, corner, fruit & veggie stand on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is still at the heart of our business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 516 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1975, Busch's has been bringing people together through great food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 438 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It all began in 1971 with one store in Seattle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 415 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace is a gourmet shopping experience, where customers can choose from dozens of homemade pastas and sauces, to hand-rolled sushi made fresh throughout the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 318 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're here to inspire our guests to - Live Well, with Taste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dorothy Lane Market is the Midwest's award-winning gourmet grocer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Citarella Story Established in New York City in 1912, Citarella continues to be a family-run business, celebrating more than 100 years of culinary history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Nino Salvaggio International Marketplace, it is our goal and mission to create a unique, ever changing and vibrant shopping experience for our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1939, Di Bruno Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Much more than a store, McCaffrey’s Food Markets are Exceptional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zupan’s Markets is a local and family-owned specialty market focusing on the best fresh, quality ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A locally owned specialty food supermarkets with friendly & personalized service and great signature products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oil & Vinegar is a European Retail Franchise concept with a business model revolving around a unique and engaging tasting experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Standard Market is a celebration of food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reid’s Fine Foods embodies friendly service wrapped in Southern style.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over a century, Balducci's has been a destination for food lovers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Purveyors of Organic & Specialty Groceries, Prepared Food, Local Produce, All Natural and Local Meats, Fresh Seafood, International & Specialty Cheese, and Wine, Beer and Liquor…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “New York City's famous Upper West Side gourmet epicurean emporium, specializing in the finest coffee, smoked fish, caviar, cheese, deli meats, kitchen equipment and housewares.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Organic Fine Foods and Baked Goods” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Carlino Family began to cultivate the finest fruits and vegetables and raise the healthiest game and livestock on the family farm in the sunny hills of Abruzzo, Italy over six…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Gustave Draeger in 1925 as "Draeger's Delicatessen" in San Francisco, Draeger's has transformed through the years to become not just a supermarket, but a "marketplace"…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formaggio Kitchen has been an institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts for over 30 years - a gourmand's paradise doubling as a neighborhood grocer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cosentino's Market has the traditional products you see in grocery stores, but with an increased selection of specialty foods and strong emphasis on fresh prepared; ready-to-eat…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: specialty 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 specialty grocery stores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty grocery stores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty 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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Specialty grocery stores based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 322 companies.
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 specialty 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “specialty 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 specialty 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 specialty grocery stores, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,321 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 22, 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.
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 specialty 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 specialty grocery stores are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 322 specialty grocery stores headquartered in the United States 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?
The Fresh Market, headquartered in Greensboro, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most specialty grocery stores?
New York leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (5) and Seattle (5).
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 1,321 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 322 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 22, 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.
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