Everything’s bigger in Texas, and that holds true for the state’s biggest grocery store chain in its biggest city.
H-E-B still reigns supreme in Houston, beating out Kroger in 2023 as the top grocer in the metro area.
Supermarket News reported a Texas-sized inaccuracy in late April when we published a story based on Chain Store Guide data that said Kroger edged ahead of the San Antonio, Texas-based grocer, capturing 22.7% of the metro Houston Market to H-E-B’s 22.5%.
It was big news that the Cincinnati, Ohio-based national supermarket chain had overtaken the Houston market in H-E-B’s own backyard, but it turns out the data was incorrect.
Not only were the numbers wrong, they weren’t as close as originally reported.
H-E-B maintained 24.9% of the market in 2023 compared to Kroger’s 22%, Axios reports, citing updated data from Chain Store Guide.
Walmart came in third with 19.7%, and Costo and Sam’s Club came in a distant fourth and fifth place with 5.8% and 5.1%, respectively.
Rounding out the top 10 were Food Town with 3.2%, Fiesta Mart with 2.6%, Safeway (Randall's Food & Drug) with 1.9%, and Whole Foods with 1.8%.
