Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in District of Columbia

Iceflower tracks 456 stores from 396 grocery & convenience chains in District of Columbia. ALDI grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Trader Joe's and Streets Market.

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
396
Tracked stores
456
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. ALDI and Trader Joe's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +15.0%
2 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +14.0%
3 S Streets Market logo Streets Market ▲1 +6.8%
4 L Lidl logo Lidl ▼1 +5.2%
5 G Giant Food logo Giant Food - +1.6%
6 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -0.2%
7 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - -2.8%
8 S Safeway logo Safeway - -5.9%
9 Y Yes Organic Market logo Yes Organic Market ▼1 -13.2%
10 W Wagshal’s logo Wagshal’s - -27.4%

Store footprint

Store map

456 tracked store locations in District of Columbia, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Safeway logo Safeway 15
  • 2 S Streets Market logo Streets Market 10
  • 3 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 8
  • 4 G Giant Food logo Giant Food 7
  • 5 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 6
  • 6 Y Yes Organic Market logo Yes Organic Market 6
  • 7 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 4
  • 8 W Wagshal’s logo Wagshal’s 3
  • 9 A ALDI logo ALDI 3
  • 10 L Lidl logo Lidl 3
  • 11 S Signature 2
  • 12 T The Brown Bag 2
  • 13 N Navy Exchange logo Navy Exchange 2
  • 14 I Imperial Wine & Spirits 2
  • 15 C Costco logo Costco 2
  • 16 P Paik Produce 1
  • 17 P Progresso Market 1
  • 18 C Chinatown Liquor 1
  • 19 L Lucky Seven Liquor 1
  • 20 S Sonya's Market 1
  • 21 N Northwest Liquors logo Northwest Liquors 1
  • 22 A AB Liquors 1
  • 23 7 7-River Mart 1
  • 24 P Papa's Liquor 1
  • 25 B Brookland Market 1
  • 26 C Columbia Heights Food Market 1
  • 27 A Angel's Share Wines & Liquors 1
  • 28 A Alabama Convenience 1
  • 29 B Batch 13 1
  • 30 P Potomac Tobacco Mini Market 1
  • 31 B Black Lion Market logo Black Lion Market 1
  • 32 B Brookland Fine Wine and Spirits 1
  • 33 T Towne Wine & Liquor 1
  • 34 I Irving Wine and Spirits 1
  • 35 F F Street Fine Wines & Spirits 1
  • 36 C Capitol View Market 1
  • 37 M McReynold's Liquors 1
  • 38 E Eye Street Cellars 1
  • 39 T Texas Convenience Store 1
  • 40 K Kogod Liquors 1
  • 41 F Fort Carroll Market 1
  • 42 S Sylvia's Liquors 1
  • 43 S Sohal Wine & Spirits 1
  • 44 T The Corner Market 1
  • 45 F Franklin Market 1
  • 46 B Best One Liquor 1
  • 47 H High Spirits 1
  • 48 M Michigan Liquors 1
  • 49 C Capitol Fine Wine & Spirits 1
  • 50 C Cotton & Reed 1

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