Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Delaware

Iceflower tracks 595 stores from 418 grocery & convenience chains in Delaware. Lidl grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Food Lion and Safeway.

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
418
Tracked stores
595
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. Lidl and Food Lion sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lidl logo Lidl - +17.8%
2 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +4.5%
3 S Safeway logo Safeway - +2.5%
4 G Giant Food logo Giant Food ▲1 +0.9%
5 S ShopRite logo ShopRite ▲2 +0.1%
6 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - 0.0%
7 A ACME Markets logo ACME Markets - -0.5%
8 H High's logo High's ▲1 -2.1%
9 W Wawa logo Wawa - -5.8%
10 R Redner's Warehouse Markets logo Redner's Warehouse Markets - -6.0%
11 R Royal Farms logo Royal Farms - -7.6%
12 F Fas Mart logo Fas Mart - -11.6%
13 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - -19.0%
14 A ALDI logo ALDI ▼3 -19.2%
15 D DASH IN Stores logo DASH IN Stores ▼1 -42.4%

Store footprint

Store map

595 tracked store locations in Delaware, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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