Trends · data through September 2026

Supermarkets in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 298 stores from 53 supermarkets in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Lowes Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harris Teeter and Publix.

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
53
Tracked stores
298
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked supermarkets

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 Harris Teeter sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods ▲1 +11.3%
2 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - -0.2%
3 P Publix logo Publix - -0.2%
4 I Ingles ▼1 -0.2%
5 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - -0.3%
6 W Wow Supermarket - -5.7%
7 I IGA logo IGA - -8.9%
  • Harris Teeter
  • Food Lion
  • Publix
  • Lowes Foods
  • Ingles
  • Super G Mart
  • Shop 'n Save
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Harris Teeter (77)
  • Food Lion (119)
  • Publix (28)
  • Lowes Foods (8)
  • Ingles (6)
  • Super G Mart (2)
  • Shop 'n Save (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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