Trends · data through July 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 213 stores from 118 grocery & convenience chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Lowes Foods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Refuel and Food Lion.

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
118
Tracked stores
213
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. Lowes Foods and Refuel sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods - +9.3%
2 R Refuel logo Refuel - +3.7%
3 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +3.1%
4 W Weaver Street Market - +3.0%
5 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - +2.1%
6 O Orange County ABC Store - +0.3%
7 A ALDI logo ALDI - -1.2%
8 C Circle K logo Circle K - -4.5%
9 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - -13.5%

Store footprint

Store map

213 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category.

  • Grocery Store (92)
  • Convenience Store (78)
  • Liquor Store (16)
  • Farm (9)
  • Butcher Shop (6)
  • Food or Beverage Store (4)
  • Farmers Market (3)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Circle K logo Circle K 24
  • 2 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 22
  • 3 R Refuel logo Refuel 18
  • 4 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 14
  • 5 S Sheetz logo Sheetz 8
  • 6 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods 4
  • 7 O Orange County ABC Store 3
  • 8 W Weaver Street Market 3
  • 9 A ALDI logo ALDI 3
  • 10 T The Root Cellar 2
  • 11 C Country Store 2
  • 12 C Chatham County ABC 2
  • 13 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market 2
  • 14 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 2
  • 15 S Spring Haven Farm 1
  • 16 M Mystic Farm and Distillery 1
  • 17 L La Jalisco Tienda y Carniceria 1
  • 18 C Craigs General Store 1
  • 19 F Fair Game Beverage Company 1
  • 20 T Tobacco Plus Mini Mart 1
  • 21 W Whitfield Farms 1
  • 22 D Desperados Western Mart 1
  • 23 C Country Mart 1
  • 24 H Han-Dee Hugo's logo Han-Dee Hugo's 1
  • 25 L Lagos Meat Market 1
  • 26 W Weldon Mills Distillery logo Weldon Mills Distillery 1
  • 27 C Cliff's Corner Meat Market 1
  • 28 A Around The World Market 1
  • 29 J Jean's Neighborhood Market 1
  • 30 C Chatham Meat Company 1
  • 31 V Vino Wine Shop 1
  • 32 C Carolina Hemp Hut 1
  • 33 S Scoot Thru 1
  • 34 A Allensville Store 1
  • 35 P Page Farms 1
  • 36 H Hawkins Convenient Store 1
  • 37 A Al-Taiba Halal Market 1
  • 38 R Rougemont Food Mart 1
  • 39 L Lighthouse Food Mart 1
  • 40 T Triangle Mini Mart and Tobacco 1
  • 41 T Twins Meat Market 1
  • 42 R Ray's Supermarket 1
  • 43 C Community Gas and Grocery 1
  • 44 F Family Fare Supermarket logo Family Fare Supermarket 1
  • 45 S Sugar Hill Produce 1
  • 46 T Timberlake Mart 1
  • 47 O Old 70 Corner Store 1
  • 48 T The Farm 1
  • 49 S Southern Food Mart 1
  • 50 Q Quickie Mart 1

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