Where to Buy Purple Potatoes Near You (Top Stores)

Find out where you can buy the visually stunning purple potatoes or purple sweet potatoes near you.

📋 What's New In This Post (4/20/26) - Updated store listings.

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• Helping You Track Down Purple Spuds!
• 🛒 How to Find Purple Potatoes Near You
• 🚜 Farmer's Market
• 🟣 Purple Sweet Potatoes
• 🔥 How to Cook Purple Potatoes
• 🇺🇸 Purple Potato Chips

🛒 How to Find Purple Potatoes Near You

In my travels around the country, I am keeping a lookout for where I can spot purple potatoes. You're going to either find them one of three ways

1. Loose by the pound
2. Included in a bag, usually a smaller sized bag
3. Or in a mix with other types of small sized potatoes

I have had success finding them at those stores every time. Below you will find a list of stores you can look at that may have them as well:

• ALDI
• BJ's Warehouse
• Central Market (Texas)
• HEB
• Jungle Jim's (Ohio)
• Plum Market
• Publix
• Specialty Produce (California)
• Trader Joe's
• Wegmans

Reminder, just because a store appears on this list, doesn't mean they currently carry them. These stores have carried them in one form in the past. Depending on the store, it may be a seasonal thing. Some stores carry more types of potatoes around the holidays.

❌ I have never seen any purple potatoes at warehouse club stores like Costco or Sam's Club.

🚜 Farmer's Market

My absolute favorite place to buy purple potatoes is a farmer's market.

You can find them pretty easily nowadays at most large farmer's markets. They have great eye appeal that attracts people to the vendor's tables. These are going to be the freshest potatoes as well. Sometimes you can get them just dug from the ground the day before - these are called new potatoes.

Farmer's market is also a great place to go if you want to seek out a specific variety of purple potato. You are unlikely to know what specific variety of potato you are getting in a store. But you can certainly ask the farmer if you buy it directly from them. Here are some varieties to look for (note some of them have the name "blue" in their name but I still would consider them purple)

• Vitelotte - a French heirloom variety
• Adirondack Blue - a popular variety for home gardeners
• All Blue
• Purple Majesty
• Purple Fiesta
• Purple Peruvian Fingerling
• Purple Viking - white inside

🟣 Purple Sweet Potatoes

Purple sweet potatoes are growing in popularity as well. But they are still harder to find. If I am looking for them I always go to Whole Foods and they rarely let me down. They carry the Stokes Purple Sweet Potato.

Trader Joe's carries a different variety on occasion called the Murasaki. It is purple outside and white inside. Just like the Stokes purple sweet is more starchy, less sweet than an orange sweet potato.

Read about the difference between sweet potatoes and yams.

🔥 How to Cook Purple Potatoes

There are many ways to cook purple potatoes. Check out our post - What is the Best Way to Cook Purple Potatoes - where I examine the pros and cons of different cooking methods.

• You can throw whole purple potatoes in the oven or air fryer.
• Or boil purple potatoes to make potato salad.
• A favorite way to cook them in my family is in a cast iron skillet. Add eggs and sausage and you've got a purple potato breakfast skillet.
• The photo above features beautiful mashed potatoes made by cooking purple and gold potatoes separately and then swirling them together. See our recipe for Mixed Potatoes.

🇺🇸 Purple Potato Chips

You can find purple potato chips in some stores. In the past, I have found them brands like Terra and Jackson's Honest.

One year for the 4th of July I got a mix of white, purple, and red potato chips made by Saratoga Chips. They made the original kettle chip. It's so fun to see such colorful chips without any fake coloring whatsoever - yes, there are even potatoes that are red on the inside.

✋ Give your fellow readers a hand, leave a comment below with anywhere that you have found purple potatoes or purple sweet potatoes.