Buyers in Phoenix should assume SNAP is a new file and the landlord is a person.
The permit on the Phoenix door is not an asset you convey. It is a federal file tied to named owners. This page will not print a Phoenix store census. CBP NAICS 445110 was left null. Five-year 2.66× is the boring Phoenix starting point. 2025’s 3.38 is the sample average, not your asking price.
Seller side in Phoenix
A Phoenix seller who prices from weekly sales alone will meet a recast. Department margins and shrink decide whether the multiple holds.
Illustrative, not a quote. Phoenix example only: $253,600 SDE, $124,895 inventory, band $553,479–$852,727. Lease remaining term can move that more than the multiple. Sibling sell in Arizona. Keep reading seller hub, confidential sale, valuation guide, SNAP when you sell.
Incoming operator
First-time operators get financed when the scan data, EBT mix, and lease remaining term tell one story. SBA 7(a) can finance a change of ownership; the published maximum is $5 million.
- Call Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control about incoming-owner steps
- Read drop minimums and over-advances
- Recast on market rent if the seller owns the box
- Model occupancy as a share of sales — no invented rent/sf
- Budget FNS downtime
- Drive the true corridor, not the city name
- Reject repeating “inventory adjustments” as add-backs
Buy in Arizona carries statewide financing and ABC detail.
Submarkets
Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors. Mexican independents and Food City competitive set. Treat this as a qualitative corridor note, not a population percentage.
How to read price
| Band | Sourced multiple | Phoenix reading |
|---|---|---|
| Lower | 1.60 IQR floor | Messy lease or privilege |
| Mid | 2.66 five-year average | Ordinary clean file |
| Upper sample | 3.38 in 2025 | Only if the file is unusually clean |
Illustrative, not a quote. For a Phoenix independent, recast SDE of $234,576 at 1.89×–2.85× plus $171,123 inventory at cost frames a going-concern band of about $614,472 to $839,665. The 2.54× midpoint lands near $766,946. Lease remaining term and license lag can move the check more than the multiple.
No metro rent range is published for Phoenix. Occupancy is a ratio from the lease and the P&L. Rent checker.
City plus AZ
Local licensing note: Arizona DLLC off-premise series; some series are limited. Operators mention this quirk: Maricopa County environmental health. If the store sells tickets, Arizona Lottery is a separate retailer contract and is not part of the bill of sale.
Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control still owns the privilege. Phoenix adds city and county desks on top.
A Phoenix CIM that skips Arizona tax nuance is incomplete. Clip: ity) sales taxes; some localities tax food. Confirm the Transaction Privilege Tax classification and city rate for the store address.
Fry’s is competitive context in Phoenix, not a listing.
Buyers who only know Bashas’ / Food City / AJ’s will mis-read a Phoenix independent.
Buyers who only know Safeway will mis-read a Phoenix independent.
Sprouts is competitive context in Phoenix, not a listing.
Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors is a distinct Phoenix pocket. Mexican independents and Food City competitive set.
Local quirk in Phoenix: Arizona DLLC off-premise series; some series are limited.
Local quirk in Phoenix: Maricopa County environmental health.
No rent-per-foot, no metro population, and no grocery-density figure are published for Phoenix. Those fields are null.
Fry’s (Kroger) is not decorative in Phoenix. Neither is Safeway (Albertsons Cos.).
Buyers who understand Prescott / Flagstaff / Northern Arizona still trip on Arizona Department of Health Services — WIC in Phoenix if the count is sloppy.
Put Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors on a dated workplan. Put Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors on the same Phoenix workplan.
A lender reading Fry’s (Kroger) next to Tourism and rural independents. will ask better Phoenix questions than a listings tourist.
Prescott / Flagstaff / Northern Arizona plus Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors is most of the non-price work on a Phoenix independent.
Quiet process in Phoenix means Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors stays off the sales floor while Tourism and rural independents. is still in motion.
Skip Fry’s (Kroger) and you will meet West Valley / Surprise–Glendale as a Phoenix re-trade.
Operators already living with Prescott / Flagstaff / Northern Arizona underwrite Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) faster than tourists in Phoenix.
Phoenix files stall when Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors is treated as a courtesy and Bashas’ / Food City / AJ’s is treated as a surprise.
The honest Phoenix teaser mentions Fry’s (Kroger) in the same breath as Largest independent and Hispanic-market concentration..
Phoenix stays qualitative on Largest independent and Hispanic-market concentration. and Arizona Department of Health Services — WIC wherever the research pack left a null.
Phoenix stays qualitative on Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) and Tucson wherever the research pack left a null.
Arizona Department of Health Services — WIC in Phoenix changes how Tourism and rural independents. is scheduled on a close calendar.
Safeway in Phoenix changes how Arizona Department of Revenue (tobacco licensing) / DLLC as applicable is scheduled on a close calendar.
Phoenix stays qualitative on Arizona and Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) wherever the research pack left a null.
Phoenix stays qualitative on Suburban conventional and Hispanic banners. and Fry’s wherever the research pack left a null.
C&S Wholesale Grocers in Phoenix changes how Bashas’ / Food City / AJ’s is scheduled on a close calendar.
$15.15 in Phoenix changes how UNFI is scheduled on a close calendar.
Sellers who bury Safeway (Albertsons Cos.) under C&S Wholesale Grocers in Phoenix get a price cut later.
Sellers who bury Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control under Safeway in Phoenix get a price cut later.
Tourism and rural independents. plus Safeway (Albertsons Cos.) is most of the non-price work on a Phoenix independent.
Quiet process in Phoenix means Arizona Department of Health Services and county environmental health stays off the sales floor while Arizona Department of Health Services — WIC is still in motion.
Skip Bashas’ / Food City / AJ’s and you will meet Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors as a Phoenix re-trade.
Operators already living with West Valley / Surprise–Glendale underwrite Tourism and rural independents. faster than tourists in Phoenix.
Phoenix files stall when Suburban conventional and Hispanic banners. is treated as a courtesy and Arizona Department of Health Services — WIC is treated as a surprise.
Fry’s is competitive context in Phoenix, not a sold listing on this page.
A Phoenix independent still has to explain trips Fry’s does not take.
Bashas’ / Food City / AJ’s is competitive context in Phoenix, not a sold listing on this page.
A Phoenix independent still has to explain trips Bashas’ / Food City / AJ’s does not take.
Safeway is competitive context in Phoenix, not a sold listing on this page.
A Phoenix independent still has to explain trips Safeway does not take.
Sprouts is competitive context in Phoenix, not a sold listing on this page.
A Phoenix independent still has to explain trips Sprouts does not take.
Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors in Phoenix: Mexican independents and Food City competitive set.
Do not price Central and west Phoenix Hispanic corridors as if it were a suburban Phoenix banner box.
Phoenix sits under Arizona rules for food tax and Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.
DOL’s July 1, 2026 consolidated table lists Arizona at $15.15. State minimum wage is above federal and is indexed. Confirm Industrial Commission of Arizona current rate and any paid-sick-time rules.
Illustrative, not a quote. Illustrative, not a quote: recast SDE $213,670 at 1.80×–2.84× plus $121,740 inventory at cost frames about $506,346 to $728,563 for a Phoenix independent.
Keep Phoenix employees off the listing sites until the process needs them.
Model Phoenix occupancy as rent plus CAM over sales. This pack will not invent a dollar-per-foot.
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