Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Birmingham, AL

Iceflower tracks 338 stores from 199 grocery & convenience chains in Birmingham, AL. Food Giant grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ALDI and Piggly Wiggly.

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
199
Tracked stores
338
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. Food Giant and ALDI sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food Giant logo Food Giant - +12.0%
2 A ALDI logo ALDI - +8.7%
3 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly - +3.0%
4 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +2.9%
5 A ABC Select Spirits logo ABC Select Spirits - +0.8%
6 P Publix logo Publix - -1.7%
7 F Food Outlet - -2.1%
8 C Circle K logo Circle K - -5.5%
9 F Fresh Value logo Fresh Value - -7.2%
10 M MAPCO logo MAPCO - -8.3%
11 W Winn-Dixie logo Winn-Dixie - -30.7%

Store footprint

Store map

338 tracked store locations in Birmingham, AL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Circle K logo Circle K 47
  • 2 P Publix logo Publix 30
  • 3 P Piggly Wiggly logo Piggly Wiggly 22
  • 4 A ALDI logo ALDI 11
  • 5 W Winn-Dixie logo Winn-Dixie 11
  • 6 F Food Giant logo Food Giant 4
  • 7 M MAPCO logo MAPCO 4
  • 8 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 3
  • 9 F Food Outlet 3
  • 10 F Fresh Value logo Fresh Value 3
  • 11 A ABC Select Spirits logo ABC Select Spirits 3
  • 12 T The Store 2
  • 13 T The New York Butcher Shoppe logo The New York Butcher Shoppe 2
  • 14 F Foodland 2
  • 15 S Stop & Shop logo Stop & Shop 2
  • 16 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market 2
  • 17 M Mi Pueblo Supermarket 2
  • 18 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market 2
  • 19 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot 2
  • 20 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 2
  • 21 C Calera Package Store 1
  • 22 L Lorna Food Mart 1
  • 23 G Green Pond Grocery 1
  • 24 P Penzeys Spices logo Penzeys Spices 1
  • 25 T Toddies Package Store 1
  • 26 H Hudd's Food Center 1
  • 27 D Dread River Distilling Company 1
  • 28 H Halal Supermarket International 1
  • 29 N Navarro's Fresh Market 1
  • 30 E Evans Farm 1
  • 31 E Ensley Place Food Mart 1
  • 32 S Sunshine Farms 1
  • 33 T The Peach Barn 1
  • 34 L Lucky's Supermarket 1
  • 35 H Honey & Spice Health Foods 1
  • 36 E Elyton Meat Center 1
  • 37 P Pop's Country Corner 1
  • 38 B Bama Health Foods 1
  • 39 M Massey Grocery 1
  • 40 V Virginia Mines Grocery 1
  • 41 O Old Baker Farm 1
  • 42 L La Hacienda Michoacán Supermarket 1
  • 43 J Jubilee 1
  • 44 N Nico’s Supermarket #2 1
  • 45 S Sheza Food Mart 1
  • 46 C Crestline package store 1
  • 47 B Beverage Place 1
  • 48 S Steve's Grocery 1
  • 49 S Southside Market 1
  • 50 T The Cajun Cleaver, Inc. 1

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