Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 1,556 stores from 1,242 grocery & convenience chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Sam's Club grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costco and ShopRite.

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
1,242
Tracked stores
1,556
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. Sam's Club and Costco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +7.0%
2 C Costco logo Costco - +6.6%
3 S ShopRite logo ShopRite ▲1 +6.2%
4 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company - +6.0%
5 M MOM's Organic Market logo MOM's Organic Market - +5.3%
6 W Weis Markets logo Weis Markets ▲1 +5.1%
7 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - +3.0%
8 W Wegmans logo Wegmans - +1.9%
9 F Food Lion logo Food Lion ▼1 +1.4%
10 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +1.2%
11 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter ▼1 -0.1%
12 G Giant Food logo Giant Food - -0.4%
13 L Lidl logo Lidl ▲1 -0.5%
14 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market - -1.3%
15 R Redner's Warehouse Markets logo Redner's Warehouse Markets - -1.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,556 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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