It’s the fifth time Texas based H-E-B was No. 1 on the Dunnhumby’s Retailer Preferences Index.
HOUSTON — H-E-B LP has again claimed the top spot in a national ranking that gauges customer preferences and trends in the grocery retail industry.
The San Antonio-based retailer earned the No. 1 slot for the fifth time in the ninth-annual Retailer Preferences Index for the national industry.
The customer-insights and data-science company Dunnhumby released the report Jan. 7.
New England-based Market Basket and Wisconsin-based Woodman’s follow H-E-B LP as the top-ranked stores in the recent analysis. Woodman’s took the third-place spot from Costco. Other top-ranked grocers were Aldi, WinCo Foods, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Wegmans and ShopRite.
This is the first year the top three spots have been held by regional chains, Dunnhumby said.
“2025 threw a lot of curveballs at the U.S. consumer,” Matt O’Grady, president of the Americas for Dunnhumby, said in a prepared statement. “Shopper confidence dropped as concerns about higher prices, fewer job opportunities and stagnant wages eroded purchasing power. Consumers across all income levels are feeling the squeeze and making more price-conscious choices.”
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