Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 1,096 stores from 702 grocery & convenience chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Lowes Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cashion's Quik Stop and Kingsway.

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
702
Tracked stores
1,096
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. Lowes Foods and Cashion's Quik Stop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▲1 +12.2%
2 C Cashion's Quik Stop ▲1 +7.0%
3 K Kingsway ▲1 +5.7%
4 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company ▲1 +5.6%
5 T Triveni Supermarket logo Triveni Supermarket ▲1 +5.0%
6 M Mecklenburg County ABC Store logo Mecklenburg County ABC Store - +4.5%
7 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More ▲1 +2.7%
8 Q Quick Stop - +1.8%
9 P Publix logo Publix - +0.6%
10 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +0.5%
11 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +0.5%
12 I Ingles ▼1 +0.5%
13 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club - +0.1%
14 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - -2.3%
15 C Costco logo Costco - -4.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,096 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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