Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 260 stores from 209 grocery & convenience chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Food Lion grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harris Teeter and Orange County ABC Store.

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
209
Tracked stores
260
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. Food Lion and Harris Teeter sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - +0.4%
2 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter - -2.7%
3 O Orange County ABC Store - -3.7%
4 W Weaver Street Market - -8.1%
5 A ALDI logo ALDI - -8.7%
6 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods - -10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 23
  • 2 H Harris Teeter logo Harris Teeter 14
  • 3 L Lowes Foods logo Lowes Foods 4
  • 4 A ALDI logo ALDI 3
  • 5 W Weaver Street Market 3
  • 6 O Orange County ABC Store 3
  • 7 C Carolina Hemp Hut 2
  • 8 T The Root Cellar 2
  • 9 T Twins Meat Market 2
  • 10 T Tommy's Mini Mart 2
  • 11 C Chatham County ABC 2
  • 12 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market 2
  • 13 W Whole Foods Market logo Whole Foods Market 2
  • 14 B Boxcarr Handmade Cheese 1
  • 15 C Carrboro Farmers' Market 1
  • 16 J Jireh Family Farm 1
  • 17 R Raspa Fruit Lupita 1
  • 18 C Carolina Food Mart 1
  • 19 S Sugar Hill Produce 1
  • 20 S Smallcakes Durham 1
  • 21 C Clayton's Corner Grocery 1
  • 22 E Edible Arrangements logo Edible Arrangements 1
  • 23 C Capital Seafood Market 1
  • 24 R Rise Up Nutrition 1
  • 25 D Dead Broke Farm 1
  • 26 1 1792 Beer Co. 1
  • 27 C Cinco Estrellas NC 1
  • 28 M Mi Barrio 1
  • 29 R Roxboro Pure Mart 1
  • 30 T The Food Mart 1
  • 31 L La Tiendita 1
  • 32 F Fricks Apiaries 1
  • 33 L Lilly Den Farm 1
  • 34 S Split Acre Farm 1
  • 35 E Ever Laughter Farm 1
  • 36 P Parkview Mini Mart 1
  • 37 R Ramblers 1
  • 38 H Holder Hill Farm 1
  • 39 A Academy Quick Stop 1
  • 40 H Hillsborough Farmers Market 1
  • 41 D Durham Farmers' Market 1
  • 42 L La Vaquita 1
  • 43 M Mariakakis Fine Food & Wine 1
  • 44 T The Farm 1
  • 45 T Tortilleria La Migueleña 1
  • 46 M McAdams Farm 1
  • 47 S Spice Bazaar 1
  • 48 U University Market 1
  • 49 K Kaw Thoo Lei Asian Market 1
  • 50 C Carolina Sunshine Alpaca Farm 1

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