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Food stores on Shopify

Updated Dec 5 2025

There are 89,847 live Shopify stores in the Food category.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in the Food category.

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The most popular subcategories under Food are:

  • 13.1% of Shopify stores in the Food category sell Baked Goods & Desserts products
  • 9.1% of Shopify stores in the Food category sell Candy & Sweets products
  • 7.9% of Shopify stores in the Food category sell Meat & Seafood products

Here are the the top Food subcategories by store count.

Growth of Food Stores On Shopify

Here is the historical growth of stores on Shopify in the Food category.

  • Shopify stores in the Food category have decreased -1.4% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in the Food category have increased 80% year-over-year in 2025 Q3.
Quarter
New Active Stores
2017 Q1
812
2017 Q2
550
2017 Q3
595
2017 Q4
771
2018 Q1
733
2018 Q2
1,816
2018 Q3
995
2018 Q4
944
2019 Q1
1,191
2019 Q2
1,000
2019 Q3
1,152
2019 Q4
1,051
2020 Q1
1,301
2020 Q2
2,992
2020 Q3
2,437
2020 Q4
2,959
2021 Q1
3,041
2021 Q2
2,289
2021 Q3
2,526
2021 Q4
2,067
2022 Q1
1,631
2022 Q2
1,769
2022 Q3
2,433
2022 Q4
1,741
2023 Q1
2,100
2023 Q2
2,259
2023 Q3
2,805
2023 Q4
3,015
2024 Q1
3,037
2024 Q2
3,460
2024 Q3
3,368
2024 Q4
4,101
2025 Q1
4,743
2025 Q2
5,098
2025 Q3
6,056
2025 Q4 (to date)
5,973
Active Store Count by Quarter

It's hard to know exactly when a Shopify store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In The Food Category

Here are the top social media sites for Shopify stores in the Food category.

  • Instagram is used by 60.9% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
  • Facebook is used by 42.2% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
  • Tiktok is used by 13.1% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
Type
Stores
Instagram
54,756
Facebook
37,933
Tiktok
11,780
YouTube
10,589
Twitter
8,016
LinkedIn
7,026
Pinterest
5,948
WhatsApp
1,853
Facebook Group
486
Snapchat
223
Yelp
192
Soundcloud
11
Discord
3

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In The Food Category

Here are the top contact methods for Shopify stores in the Food category.

  • 61.7% of Shopify stores in the Food category have an email on their website
  • 45.9% of Shopify stores in the Food category provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
55,450
Phone
41,215

Top Countries For Shopify Stores In The Food Category

Here are the top countries for Shopify stores in the Food category.

  • 39.2% of Shopify stores in the Food category are in United States
  • 8.1% of Shopify stores in the Food category are in United Kingdom
  • 7.6% of Shopify stores in the Food category are in India
  • 6.8% of Shopify stores in the Food category are in Canada
Country
Stores
35,211
6,791
6,133
5,028
2,776
2,355
1,929
1,714
1,415

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Top Shopify Apps For Stores In The Food Category

Here are the top Shopify apps, ordered by number of installs, across stores in the Food category.

  • 19.4% of Shopify stores in the Food category have installed the Judge.me Product Reviews App Shopify app.
  • 15.5% of Shopify stores in the Food category have installed the Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS Shopify app.
  • 12.9% of Shopify stores in the Food category have installed the Shopify Inbox Shopify app.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Top Technologies on Shopify Stores In The Food Category

Many Shopify merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Shopify App Store.

We're tracking 629 different technologies that have 782,600 collective installs on Shopify stores in the Food category.

  • Cloudflare is used by 99.3% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 99.0% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
  • Arrive is used by 93.8% of Shopify stores in the Food category.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores.

Technology
Stores
89,224
84,287
54,668
50,652
50,524

Number Of Products Sold For Shopify Stores In The Food Category

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in the Food category by the number of products that they sell.

  • 30.4% of Shopify stores in the Food category sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 21.9% of Shopify stores in the Food category sell 10 - 24 different products.
  • 14.7% of Shopify stores in the Food category sell 25 - 49 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
27,289
10 - 24
19,719
25 - 49
13,241
50 - 99
10,151
100 - 249
8,255
250 - 999
5,400
1000 - 4999
1,986
5000 - 9999
268
10000 - 24999
188
25000 - 99999
50

Top Shopify Themes For Stores In The Food Category

Shopify has an active and extension theme store. Merchants using Shopify can use one of those pre-built theme or develop their own custom theme to meet their needs. We're currently tracking over 1000 different Shopify themes. Here are the top themes.

  • The trademark theme is used by 19.0% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
  • The dawn theme is used by 7.4% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
  • The debut theme is used by 6.3% of Shopify stores in the Food category.
Theme Name
Stores
trademark
17,110
dawn
6,625
debut
5,657
rise
4,794
horizon
2,702
origin
2,576
spotlight
2,317
refresh
1,886
ride
1,657
brooklyn
1,425

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In The Food Category

The majority of Shopify stores use a .com domain. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only been introduced somewhat recently and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

  • 65.7% of Shopify stores in the Food category have a .com domain.
  • 3.8% of Shopify stores in the Food category have a .co.uk domain.
  • 3.7% of Shopify stores in the Food category have a .com.au domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
59,057
.co.uk
3,459
.com.au
3,345
.ca
2,339
.in
1,852
.de
1,791
.shop
1,605
.co
1,118
.fr
984
.co.nz
915

Top Stores In The Food Category

Here are the top 5 Food stores ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
McCormick
403
2016/12/30
BettyCrocker.com
496
2017/10/27
GODIVA Chocolates
618
2017/03/24
Ben & Jerry’s
708
2016/12/30
ALOHA
807
2016/12/30

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New Stores In The Food Category

Here are the top 5 most recent Food stores.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
NextGen Beef
2,543,718
2025/12/05
Carol's Pastry Store
3,208,226
2025/12/05
Lentl
3,302,405
2025/12/05
TeaPal
3,381,005
2025/12/05
Nuttin Fancy
3,522,040
2025/12/05

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