Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery Stores in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 480 stores from 169 grocery stores chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Lowes Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ingles and Compare Foods.

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
169
Tracked stores
480
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery stores 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 Ingles sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods - +12.0%
2 I Ingles - +5.0%
3 C Compare Foods logo Compare Foods - +4.7%
4 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +1.6%
5 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -0.3%
6 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - -1.0%
7 W Wow Supermarket - -1.3%
8 P Publix logo Publix - -1.5%
9 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - -2.5%
10 I IGA logo IGA - -2.8%
11 A ALDI logo ALDI - -3.4%
12 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market - -7.0%
13 L Lidl logo Lidl - -8.2%
14 T Triveni Supermarket logo Triveni Supermarket - -18.1%
15 E Earth Fare logo Earth Fare - -36.4%
  • Harris Teeter
  • Food Lion
  • Publix
  • ALDI
  • Trader Joe's
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Lowes Foods
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

480 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Harris Teeter (75)
  • Food Lion (119)
  • Publix (28)
  • ALDI (34)
  • Trader Joe's (3)
  • Whole Foods Market (4)
  • Lowes Foods (8)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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