Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in District of Columbia

Iceflower tracks 376 stores from 331 grocery & convenience chains in District of Columbia. Lidl grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Trader Joe's 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
331
Tracked stores
376
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 Trader Joe's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lidl logo Lidl ▲1 +16.5%
2 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's - +2.4%
3 S Safeway logo Safeway - -0.3%
4 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market - -1.7%
5 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - -1.8%
6 W Wawa logo Wawa ▼1 -8.8%
7 G Giant Food logo Giant Food - -11.7%
8 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - -15.1%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Safeway logo Safeway 12
  • 2 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 8
  • 3 G Giant Food logo Giant Food 7
  • 4 T Trader Joe's logo Trader Joe's 6
  • 5 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven 5
  • 6 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 4
  • 7 W Wawa logo Wawa 4
  • 8 L Lidl logo Lidl 3
  • 9 P Park Market 2
  • 10 S Streets Market logo Streets Market 2
  • 11 A ALDI logo ALDI 2
  • 12 W Wagshal’s logo Wagshal’s 2
  • 13 S Select Reserves 1
  • 14 C Columbia Heights Food Market 1
  • 15 M Mimi's Convenience Store 1
  • 16 M MacArthur Beverages 1
  • 17 C Capital Tobacco & Grocery 1
  • 18 P Potomac Tobacco Mini Market 1
  • 19 P Paik Produce 1
  • 20 C Chesapeake Big Market 1
  • 21 I Irving Wine and Spirits 1
  • 22 G Gemini x Happy Ice Cream 1
  • 23 O Old City Market and Oven 1
  • 24 G Guilford Liquor 1
  • 25 G Grand Cata logo Grand Cata 1
  • 26 N Northwest Liquors 1
  • 27 S Sonya's Market 1
  • 28 U Universal Liquors 1
  • 29 B Black Lion Market logo Black Lion Market 1
  • 30 A A-1 Wine & Liquors 1
  • 31 A AB Liquors 1
  • 32 E Exotic Wine & Spirits 1
  • 33 T Towne Wine & Liquor 1
  • 34 F Fair Liquors 1
  • 35 P Papa's Liquor 1
  • 36 U Union Liquors 1
  • 37 H Hana Japanese Market 1
  • 38 P Pennsylvania Avenue Market 1
  • 39 E Eye Street Cellars 1
  • 40 M McReynold's Liquors 1
  • 41 T Texas Convenience Store 1
  • 42 H High Spirits 1
  • 43 F Fairfax Liquors 1
  • 44 B Batch 13 1
  • 45 C Capitol Fine Wine & Spirits 1
  • 46 B Blue Nile logo Blue Nile 1
  • 47 C Cotton & Reed 1
  • 48 M Mayfair Liquors logo Mayfair Liquors 1
  • 49 F Florida Ave. Market 1
  • 50 T The Corner Market 1

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