Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 240 stores from 186 grocery & convenience chains in Asheville, NC. ALDI grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Whole Foods Market and Ingles.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
186
Tracked stores
240
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. ALDI and Whole Foods Market sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +12.3%
2 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market ▼1 -0.9%
3 I Ingles - -2.5%
4 S SAV•MOR Foods - -5.6%
5 P Publix logo Publix - -7.1%
6 E Energy Mart Stores - -12.1%

Store footprint

Store map

240 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 I Ingles 30
  • 2 A ALDI logo ALDI 5
  • 3 S SAV•MOR Foods 3
  • 4 E Energy Mart Stores 3
  • 5 A Asheville ABC Liquor Store 3
  • 6 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market 3
  • 7 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 3
  • 8 P Publix logo Publix 3
  • 9 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 2
  • 10 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 2
  • 11 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company 2
  • 12 S Stop N Go 2
  • 13 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 2
  • 14 F Fairview Grocery 2
  • 15 C CitiStop 2
  • 16 O One Stop logo One Stop 2
  • 17 H Hendersonville ABC Store 2
  • 18 C Coston Farm & Apple House 1
  • 19 G Gaining Ground Farm 1
  • 20 F Flat Rock Fresh General Store 1
  • 21 O Old Creek General Store 1
  • 22 B Bamboo Asian Grocery 1
  • 23 G Gladheart Farm 1
  • 24 T The Farm 1
  • 25 L La Michoacana Meat Market logo La Michoacana Meat Market 1
  • 26 T Tienda El Quetzal Inc 1
  • 27 L La Catrachita 1
  • 28 W Whistlepig Farm 1
  • 29 Y YZ Asian Market 1
  • 30 D Dalton Distillery 1
  • 31 N North Asheville Tailgate Market 1
  • 32 W Wall Street Market 1
  • 33 S Stump Farms logo Stump Farms 1
  • 34 S Spice of life and Variety Tea 1
  • 35 W Windy Hollow Farm 1
  • 36 M M & J Food Stores 1
  • 37 H Hillbillys Gulf 1
  • 38 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 1
  • 39 M Mountain Valley Spring Water 1
  • 40 I Ice Service Store 1
  • 41 M McConnell Farms 1
  • 42 E Eda's Hide-a-Way 1
  • 43 T Tobacco Road Burley & Brew 1
  • 44 D Dickies Half Price Foods 1
  • 45 T The Wild Violet 1
  • 46 F Fiesta Foods Number 1 Market 1
  • 47 F Fresh Local Produce 1
  • 48 O Oak and Grist Distilling Company 1
  • 49 C Candler 1
  • 50 M Market Center 1

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.