Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Burlington, NC

Iceflower tracks 46 stores from 29 grocery & convenience chains in Burlington, NC. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Circle K and Sheetz.

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
29
Tracked stores
46
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 Lion and Circle K sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +7.1%
2 C Circle K logo Circle K - +2.6%
3 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - -23.7%
  • Grocery Store
  • Convenience Store
  • Butcher Shop
  • Liquor Store
  • Farm
  • Warehouse Club
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

46 tracked store locations in Burlington, NC, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (20)
  • Convenience Store (19)
  • Butcher Shop (3)
  • Liquor Store (2)
  • Farm (1)
  • Warehouse Club (1)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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