Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Delaware

Iceflower tracks 632 stores from 540 grocery & convenience chains in Delaware. Lidl grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Food Lion and Redner's Warehouse Markets.

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
540
Tracked stores
632
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 - +14.0%
2 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +1.9%
3 R Redner's Warehouse Markets logo Redner's Warehouse Markets ▲1 -3.2%
4 A ACME Markets logo ACME Markets - -3.7%
5 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club - -5.2%
6 S Safeway logo Safeway - -6.0%
7 S ShopRite logo ShopRite ▼1 -7.2%
8 G Giant Food logo Giant Food ▲1 -7.4%
9 A ALDI logo ALDI ▼1 -12.7%
10 C Country Corners Market - -18.8%

Store footprint

Store map

632 tracked store locations in Delaware, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 21
  • 2 A ACME Markets logo ACME Markets 15
  • 3 A ALDI logo ALDI 10
  • 4 R Redner's Warehouse Markets logo Redner's Warehouse Markets 7
  • 5 C Country Corners Market 6
  • 6 S ShopRite logo ShopRite 5
  • 7 G Giant Food logo Giant Food 5
  • 8 B BJ's Wholesale Club logo BJ's Wholesale Club 4
  • 9 S Safeway logo Safeway 4
  • 10 W Weis Markets logo Weis Markets 3
  • 11 L Lidl logo Lidl 3
  • 12 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 2
  • 13 G Good News Natural Foods 2
  • 14 P Produce Junction 2
  • 15 C Concord Liquor 2
  • 16 E Empire Wine & Spirits 2
  • 17 T The Country Store 2
  • 18 K Kreston Wine & Spirits 2
  • 19 O One Stop logo One Stop 2
  • 20 T Tri State Liquors 2
  • 21 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 2
  • 22 G GIANT logo GIANT 2
  • 23 T Total Wine & More logo Total Wine & More 2
  • 24 S Sprouts Farmers Market logo Sprouts Farmers Market 2
  • 25 C Costco logo Costco 1
  • 26 C Cove Liqours 1
  • 27 D Dewey Beach Liquors 1
  • 28 D Delux Dairy Market 1
  • 29 P Park N Shop Liquors 1
  • 30 S Spruance City Liquors 1
  • 31 8 896 Liquors 1
  • 32 L Larry's Liquor Store 1
  • 33 P Paper Mills Liquors 1
  • 34 D Doc's Meat Market 1
  • 35 P Pockets Discount Liquors 1
  • 36 S Savannah Discount Liquor 1
  • 37 B Bridle Bit Liquors 1
  • 38 D Dunkirk Wine and Spirits 1
  • 39 R Raceway Liquors 1
  • 40 K Kemp's Liquors 1
  • 41 B Bacalao Fresh Supermarket 1
  • 42 C Claymont Liquor Mart 1
  • 43 T Toll Gate Liquors 1
  • 44 G Greenwood Liquor Inc. 1
  • 45 B Bridgeville Discount Liquors 1
  • 46 P Produce Village 1
  • 47 M Midway Discount Liquor Warehouse 1
  • 48 F Family Butcher Shop 1
  • 49 T The Wine and Spirit Company of Greenville 1
  • 50 G Good Earth Market & Restaurant 1

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