Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Knoxville, TN

Iceflower tracks 419 stores from 311 grocery & convenience chains in Knoxville, TN. Kroger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Delta Express and E-Z Stop Food Marts.

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
311
Tracked stores
419
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. Kroger and Delta Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kroger logo Kroger ▲1 +16.5%
2 D Delta Express - +14.6%
3 E E-Z Stop Food Marts - +6.8%
4 U United Grocery Outlet - -2.8%
5 P Publix logo Publix - -3.5%
6 F Food City logo Food City ▼1 -5.4%
7 I Ingles - -6.2%
8 F Food Lion logo Food Lion - -8.5%
9 A ALDI logo ALDI - -13.7%
10 I Ians Market - -15.0%
11 B Bread Box Food Store - -17.4%
12 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot - -19.6%

Store footprint

Store map

419 tracked store locations in Knoxville, TN, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 F Food City logo Food City 30
  • 2 K Kroger logo Kroger 17
  • 3 E E-Z Stop Food Marts 12
  • 4 A ALDI logo ALDI 11
  • 5 I Ingles 7
  • 6 U United Grocery Outlet 6
  • 7 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company 5
  • 8 S Save A Lot logo Save A Lot 5
  • 9 I Ians Market 5
  • 10 D Delta Express 4
  • 11 F Food Lion logo Food Lion 4
  • 12 P Publix logo Publix 4
  • 13 B Bread Box Food Store 3
  • 14 T The Local Market 3
  • 15 I IGA logo IGA 2
  • 16 O One Stop Market 2
  • 17 T The Fresh Market logo The Fresh Market 2
  • 18 G Green Grocery 2
  • 19 D Dollar General Market logo Dollar General Market 2
  • 20 S Sam's Club logo Sam's Club 2
  • 21 M Magnolia Package Store 1
  • 22 B BreadBox 1
  • 23 D Doan's Market and Deli 1
  • 24 S Sam's Party Store 1
  • 25 C Clinch Market & Deli 1
  • 26 A AM Market and Deli 1
  • 27 F Friendsville Market 1
  • 28 F Farm Fresh Produce 1
  • 29 A Ain't Worth a Dime 1
  • 30 S Stateline Liquor 1
  • 31 H Hemphill's Market 1
  • 32 J Jesse's Butcher Shop 1
  • 33 S Simpson's Meats 1
  • 34 S Sweetwater Valley Farm 1
  • 35 Q Quick Stop Food Mart 1
  • 36 S Sam's Market 1
  • 37 F Foothills Market 1
  • 38 K Kwik Pantry Food Mart 1
  • 39 T Top Fuel Mart 1
  • 40 D Darnell's Food Market 1
  • 41 A Amburn's Market 1
  • 42 M Montvale Food Gas 1
  • 43 F Frontier Package Store 1
  • 44 R Red Roof Market 1
  • 45 T Tienda la Bonita 1
  • 46 B Big Creek Market 1
  • 47 2 27 Quick Stop 1
  • 48 B Bob's Liquor and Wine 1
  • 49 C Company Distilling 1
  • 50 E East End Liquor 1

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